Do Affiliate Links Hurt SEO?
Published on February 17, 2025
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Can adding affiliate links to your posts cause them to lose their rankings?
And how many affiliate links per post is too many?
Those are the questions covered in today's video.
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Also, for those interested, here's the stats from the case study I mentioned:
- The article contained 6,500 words
- The article contained 300 affiliate links
- That works out to be approximately 1 affiliate link for every 21 words.
That post ranked #1 for 5+ years & I just checked, it's still on page 1 today.
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