How to Make Affiliate Links Search Engine Friendly

Anyone who runs an affiliate program through any of the major affiliate providers is bound to wonder if they are missing out on some really good PageRank due to the SEO-unfriendly affiliate links pointed at them from their affiliates (me included). I keep reading about the use of a 301 redirect combined with mod-rewrite or some other filtering mechanism and cookies as a way to pass the backlink strength to the merchant site.

Take a look at one of the discussions here.

Problem is, I see a lot of discussion, but has anyone actually made this work?

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