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I'm currently in a doctor of physical therapy program and an MBA grad. I also am trying to grow a YouTube channel (3600 subscribers)

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Hello everyone. Right now I have a YouTube channel with roughly 3000 subscribers that gets 1600 views daily and is growing nicely. I have not monetized my videos yet, but wil

It sounds like what you are doing is fine as you are linking back to your site not directly to an affiliate link.

How should I put affiliate links in youtube videos?

How should I put affiliate links in youtube videos?

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Hello everyone. Right now I have a YouTube channel with roughly 3000 subscribers that gets 1600 views daily and is growing nicely. I have not monetized my videos yet, but wil

It sounds like what you are doing is fine as you are linking back to your site not directly to an affiliate link.

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I have been doing a strategy lately where I have blog posts where I discuss an affiliate item. Then on my YouTube videos, I link back to those blog posts in the description.

Check out Matt's video http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-one-page-two-links-page-counted-first-link-192718
From the article/video
In short, Mat Cutts said:

(1) PageRank flows to each link individually as it would any other link on the page, at least according to the original PageRank document.

(2) Anchor text may vary depending on time. Matt said, last time he looked, which was in 2009, they only counted the anchor text from the first link. But he said that may change that over time; in fact, he said it may not work that way now. This means, if you have two links to the same page from a specific page, but the anchor text in the first is different than the last, Google in 2009 would have used the first link’s anchor text.

That's actually a very good question. I'd be curious to know the answer to this as well.

Question on if too many links to a specific post is bad?

Question on if too many links to a specific post is bad?

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I have been doing a strategy lately where I have blog posts where I discuss an affiliate item. Then on my YouTube videos, I link back to those blog posts in the description.

Check out Matt's video http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-one-page-two-links-page-counted-first-link-192718
From the article/video
In short, Mat Cutts said:

(1) PageRank flows to each link individually as it would any other link on the page, at least according to the original PageRank document.

(2) Anchor text may vary depending on time. Matt said, last time he looked, which was in 2009, they only counted the anchor text from the first link. But he said that may change that over time; in fact, he said it may not work that way now. This means, if you have two links to the same page from a specific page, but the anchor text in the first is different than the last, Google in 2009 would have used the first link’s anchor text.

That's actually a very good question. I'd be curious to know the answer to this as well.

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I recently started using a Wordpress plugin called Prettylinks that makes it very easy to shorten affiliate URLS, track them, and nofollow them.

However, I wanted to chan

Yes. I use the same plugin. You can delete and recreate.

Hi Jeff!

A couple of thoughts:
- Down the road (for affiliate links) I'd use a 307 (temporary) link. That way if your product is pulled off the shelves at Amazon, you can simply change your Pretty Link to the Walmart affiliate link. Changing that single Pretty Link will cause all traffic from your site for that product link to shift to Walmart in a single stroke of the pen. In addition, a 307 doesn't pass link juice from your site, while a 301 will.
- I'm not sure if your intent is to change the Pretty Link itself, or to change its target. If the former, just leave the existing Pretty link in place and create a second Pretty Link in the new format. If the latter, the 301 redirect may give you problems, since you've given the search engines a new destination URL, and told them to make it permanent. They may not take note of a changed destination URL. If your 301 hasn't been in place too long, you may be OK - but go to Google Search Console (aka Webmaster Tools) > Crawl > Fetch as Google and put in your Pretty Link URL to see if it works as you'd like it to.

Hope this helps ~ Dennis

Dennis, thank you for your response!
I have no index/no follow checked off in my PrettyLinks though. I also have a plugin called WP External Links that auto unfollows all external links. I'm thinking with those things enabled, I should be okay and can simply delete my 301's.

I'm confused though on the difference between a 307 and 301 though. I know the 307 is temporary and the 301 is permanent....but what does that mean exactly?

Sorry to be so long replying Jeff. My computer decided to take a couple of days off :\

A 301 redirect is permanent, and the search engines will begin sending traffic to the new address, never looking back to see if the old address is still alive or not. It's like a forwarding address left at the post office. All mail from today forward is to go to my new address; I don't live there anymore. Virtually all link juice is passed through a 301 redirect, so the new link has the same page rank as the old.

A 307 redirect is a temporary thing, and the search engines will keep checking to see if the redirect is still active. As soon as you pull down the 307 redirect, all traffic resumes at the original page. To continue the post office analogy, if you tell them you're going on vacation and they should hold all your mail, they 'forward' your mail to a bin, until you return - and all your mail finds it's way to your original address. OK, not such a great analogy, but work with me...

A 307 redirect doesn't pass link juice, the the new link target doesn't get the rank the old link had. It's just for temporary use - affiliate links, website under construction, etc.

Any better?

Dennis

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Can I change a prettylinks url i've created?

Can I change a prettylinks url i've created?

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I recently started using a Wordpress plugin called Prettylinks that makes it very easy to shorten affiliate URLS, track them, and nofollow them.

However, I wanted to chan

Yes. I use the same plugin. You can delete and recreate.

Hi Jeff!

A couple of thoughts:
- Down the road (for affiliate links) I'd use a 307 (temporary) link. That way if your product is pulled off the shelves at Amazon, you can simply change your Pretty Link to the Walmart affiliate link. Changing that single Pretty Link will cause all traffic from your site for that product link to shift to Walmart in a single stroke of the pen. In addition, a 307 doesn't pass link juice from your site, while a 301 will.
- I'm not sure if your intent is to change the Pretty Link itself, or to change its target. If the former, just leave the existing Pretty link in place and create a second Pretty Link in the new format. If the latter, the 301 redirect may give you problems, since you've given the search engines a new destination URL, and told them to make it permanent. They may not take note of a changed destination URL. If your 301 hasn't been in place too long, you may be OK - but go to Google Search Console (aka Webmaster Tools) > Crawl > Fetch as Google and put in your Pretty Link URL to see if it works as you'd like it to.

Hope this helps ~ Dennis

Dennis, thank you for your response!
I have no index/no follow checked off in my PrettyLinks though. I also have a plugin called WP External Links that auto unfollows all external links. I'm thinking with those things enabled, I should be okay and can simply delete my 301's.

I'm confused though on the difference between a 307 and 301 though. I know the 307 is temporary and the 301 is permanent....but what does that mean exactly?

Sorry to be so long replying Jeff. My computer decided to take a couple of days off :\

A 301 redirect is permanent, and the search engines will begin sending traffic to the new address, never looking back to see if the old address is still alive or not. It's like a forwarding address left at the post office. All mail from today forward is to go to my new address; I don't live there anymore. Virtually all link juice is passed through a 301 redirect, so the new link has the same page rank as the old.

A 307 redirect is a temporary thing, and the search engines will keep checking to see if the redirect is still active. As soon as you pull down the 307 redirect, all traffic resumes at the original page. To continue the post office analogy, if you tell them you're going on vacation and they should hold all your mail, they 'forward' your mail to a bin, until you return - and all your mail finds it's way to your original address. OK, not such a great analogy, but work with me...

A 307 redirect doesn't pass link juice, the the new link target doesn't get the rank the old link had. It's just for temporary use - affiliate links, website under construction, etc.

Any better?

Dennis

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