A table with the same words and SEO

[danieldan]

Hello, I have a question, I have a table on the website with a list of bookmakers with over 100 positions and in each of these positions there are the same words as e.g. Country Restrictions, Average Odds etc.
I have a question whether it somehow negatively affects SEO? In the sense of thickening huge words? Does the search engine understand that this is a table and there is no problem with the huge repeatability of the same words?

 

[Jetman]

Hi Daniel,

In my opinion this does not effect your seo. (Nearly) Every casino affiliate site has this type of page model, and so google knows this type of structure because it finds it on many similar sites like yours, and it must take it into account. Obviously this is just an opinion, but I also have these lists and they have not been a problem for my seo endaveours. I hope this helps.

PS: a list of a 100 casinos seems quite large though, it is beneficial to use a link cloaker for your affiliate links if you are not using that already, so the links remain somewhat obscured.

regards,

Jetman

 

[AussieDave]

it is beneficial to use a link cloaker for your affiliate links if you are not using that already, so the links remain somewhat obscured.

Old SEO practice.
Aff link cloaking was used because the click ratio on a "cloaked" link (EG - yoursite.com/goto/casino-name.html) had a much higher trust value in the visitor's mind, than a straight aff link, which contained your btag etc. Plus, aff tags aren't that pretty. Additionally, the redirect could be setup to not allowing indexing and nofollow. That worked on G back then, but it doesn't now.

100 casino links in a table is large, but it depends on where the table is. I wouldn't recommend it on a home page, not unless you have a decent amount of quality inbound backlinks.

You can still use link "cloaking" to make those aff links look pretty, but don't expect them to camouflage your activity from G.

 

[Jetman]

That worked on G back then, but it doesn't now.

Adding the no follow tag still works perfectly fine. ( You can also block the affiliate link directory in your robot.txt file), and instead you can add a no index tag to the cloaked links so they dont get indexed. In my point of view they are still great to use today as it remains valuable to obscure the affiliate code from your potential clients.