Affiliate Links, Penalties, and hiding links from Google

[bionary]

Hello,

I have a page called "my tools" and on it provide a list of my favorite tools. It's basically a page that is dense with many affiliate links (about 40). On April 27th 2015 I lost %80 of my google search traffic and I have strong suspicions that it has to do with this page. (google hates what they can't monetize themself right?) Each affiliate link is a no-follow (307) redirect using the pretty link plugin.

About a 10 days ago I applied a nofollow, noindex meta tag to the entire page.

This recuperated my traffic to near pre-catastrophic-drop levels! BUT, to my chagrin the site traffic has been slowly reverting back to that 80% drop level. This is killing me.

I was thinking about rewriting the page so that it is only content with no affiliate links but then have a button that a person can click to reveal the affiliate links on the page. This would also have a human check so that bots could not click through it.

Does this sound like a decent idea or am I overlooking something?

If so how do I use custom jquery on my page? Adding javascript to that "scripts" text box at the bottom of the edit page adds it to the head before jquery has been loaded.

Thanks

http://helloartsy.com/my-tools/

[Brad Dalton]

I would no follow the links and use the Genesis Simple URL's plugin. And also no index the page.

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[bionary]

Is there a distinguishable SEO benefit to using the genesis Simple URL plugin over my current pretty link plugin because as of now I'm already doing everything else you suggested and watching my traffic drop back to the -80% level?

• no-follow links
• no index page

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