1. If I am masking an affiliate link lets say mydomain.com/go/shortname which accesses a php file and is redirected to an affiliate link is that considered black hat or anything... just trying to get away from having crazy affilate code urls in my links
2. Is it better for
SEO in any way, there seems to be big debate on this in my searches
3. When you set the alt tag or title tag on the new shortname url link who gets the alt juice since it is going to my site internally first, how does google figure that out?
Thanks all