will joining an affiliate program help links?

[RideQ]

was wondering if joining an affiliate program would help boost the links to my site? I realize that most affiliate companies dont have very good page rank webs posting my ads, but i would guess the link is still worth somthing?
i am looking at CJ.com or shareasale.com

[seo guy]

No joining an affiliate program will not help your links, why would it? At best your going to be linking to them, not the other way around, and thats generally with a link that has an appended session ID to identify your affiliate code, thus no PR or backlink credit

[seo guy]

Maybe I missunderstood your question, but I think thats what you were saying please correct me if I was wrong

[RideQ]

actually i was meaning me signing up to sell my products with them.
:)

[seo guy]

Ah well still, what you would have to do is have tracking on the URL's so thats a no go, but it does make a good segway, you tell your affiliates you will help them get sales and exposure by listing them on your site and they just have to give a text link back. Would work out id say

[RideQ]

good idea, that would make the best of the situation.