Affiliate links and Google

[lesliekirk]

Googling is picking up one of a store owner's affiliates and listing it before the store's own links. I've added

User-Agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*?affiliate=

I'm thinking that may not be the correct format now that I look at it but I do not know. The way the Affiliates is set up it's difficult to include a "nofollow" in the text link. It's doable with the HTML banner link.

[thilsabeck]

Hello Leslie,

That rule looks correct to me. Also, can you verify the site is properly labeling canonical links? Here's the default for the Shadows framework

<mvt:if expr="'CTGY' CIN l.settings:page:code">
<link rel="canonical" href="&mvte:category:link;">
<mvt:elseif expr="'PROD' CIN l.settings:page:code OR l.settings:page:code EQ 'PATR'">
<link rel="canonical" href="&mvt:product:link;">
<mvt:else>
<link rel="canonical" href="&mvte:urls:_self:auto;">
</mvt:if>