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Will you receive a manual action if rel nofollow or sponsored isn't set up on an affiliate site? Via

: Probably not. Google recommends that setup for those sites, but it wouldn't penalize a site for just having affiliate links & not marking them up: youtube.com/watch?v=GR-A6k

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: It's definitely a best practice and John recommends setting up nofollow and/or rel sponsored for affiliate links, but it's not the case that Google would manually take action on those affiliate sites if the links aren't marked up: youtube.com/watch?v=GR-A6k

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2:08 PM · Dec 14, 2021

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Most / many affiliate links are not followed because they go through a robots.txt blocked redirect, or at least this I'd true with many affiliate platforms in the UK - I'm assuming this means they're effectively no followed?

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Yes. Blocking a bounce-URL via robots.txt is fine & pretty common.

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