JackySan
Grand Guru
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- Dec 11, 2018
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While checking my previous day stats this morning in ClickerVolt, 2 rows got my attention.
These were 2 affiliate sales attributed to... Google Bot.
I was like... wuuuut???
I immediately thought it was a bug... obviously a bot can't buy anything right?
Then I found out that my affiliate link actually got indexed and ranked in Google.
It's not the tracking redirect link that got indexed, but the final url. And since the affiliate network used in this case works without redirects, it got my affiliate id embedded in the merchant site's URL, as well as the initial click id that was indexed by Google!
Nice - free sales from Google without even having to build a site or write an article! Thanks for the
These were 2 affiliate sales attributed to... Google Bot.
I was like... wuuuut???
I immediately thought it was a bug... obviously a bot can't buy anything right?
Then I found out that my affiliate link actually got indexed and ranked in Google.
It's not the tracking redirect link that got indexed, but the final url. And since the affiliate network used in this case works without redirects, it got my affiliate id embedded in the merchant site's URL, as well as the initial click id that was indexed by Google!
Nice - free sales from Google without even having to build a site or write an article! Thanks for the
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