Blog Offers - Too many offers Reducing My PA & DA?

[thomasandreas]

Hi guys,
Would really appreciate some assistance.
Previously, I would only present my casino offers (with casino links obviously) on the top/main pages.

However, about 3 month ago I decided that because some of my blog post are ranking for certain longer tail keywords (and do receive a little bit of traffic), I began putting 2-3 casino offer (with casino links) in each of the blog posts with the hopes of being able to convert some of that traffic straight on the blog.

So for the bad and maybe the good.
#1. I know that I actually have a bit of traffic on the different blog posts. However, I don't know if they are actually clicking on the casino offers on the blog post. Is there a way to check that?

#2. I have recently seen a decline in my PA and DA. and a small decline in keyword ranking for my short tail keyword. So my question is now, could this be because I now have a lot more outgoing links to different websites? Given that my blog post also contains outgoing casino links.

I am sure other of you have also done/do blog offers etc, and it be nice if I could have your comments, suggestions and thoughts on the matter. Is there a trade-off, is there an optimal balance between when and when not to put links in blogs... anyways sorry I am rumbling now.

Would really appreciate some help and thoughts on this.

Thanks a lot!

Best Regards
Thomas

[Ares]

Good question. None has a definitive answer. Use common sense. Don't overdo it. Think of user experience.

[eenzoo]

#1 you should see the incoming traffic on your affiliate dashboard. You could use tracking tools or affiliate link cloaking plugins (WP) with tracking?
#2 DA/PA is so important because you want to sell links? Otherwise are such metrics just a business for Moz & Co. Nothing more.

Surely possible that advertisements the user behavior change, which could hurt your rankings indirect. A reason why i place adds immediately.

[wonderpunter]

if you are creating blog posts with the same keywords and similar titles to money pages then you may find that those pages are fighting for the rankings and google will keep dropping and changing the url you rank for until it understands which is your most important page, DA PA really means nothing especially with the way Google scores sites in 2018, most importantly is your traffic growing?

[Catfish]

if you are creating blog posts with the same keywords and similar titles to money pages then you may find that those pages are fighting for the rankings and google will keep dropping and changing the url you rank for until it understands which is your most important page, DA PA really means nothing especially with the way Google scores sites in 2018, most importantly is your traffic growing?

Agree. I have had a situation where I disavowed a lot of links, and PA/DA for my sites went down considerably, but traffic actually increased. So, I would not pay too much attention to PA DA metrics. Maybe you could split test individual pages with/without ads, and monitor changes in traffic for said pages?

[themidfield]

I don't have a very high DA for my site at 24 however I manage to outrank some larger site for high volume keywords. Take DA with a grain of salt IMO.