Affiliate Links
Yet another post inspired by John Chow, but at least this one is probably more helpful.
In a recent article, John Chow discusses the idea whether affiliate links in posts should be marked as such or not.
For those of you who have not read the title of this blog, it is about making money, as such, you can bet that any link that I publish will make me money if there is a way that I can think of doing so. This does not mean that I will wax lyrical about products that I think are crap, its just that if I link to a product or resource, and it has an affiliate program, it will be an affiliate link (if it sin’t, you can assume that I did not find the affiliate program).
The sheer variety of affiliate programs out there, as well as my own ethics, ensure that I will not praise resources and products that do not deserve it. When writing about something, I try to be as unbiased as possible. Even if I say that I absolutelly hate something, I will still use an affiliate link to it… After all, somebody might say “Hey, Nenad hates it, it must be good!”
So, here it is, I will not mark affiliate links here, but if you see a link, it likelly is one.
[tags]Affliate Marketing, Affiliate Link, Internet Marketing Ethics, blogging[/tags]
That’s what I do — I use affiliate links but don’t mark them as such — and it doesn’t give me any problems. I even occasionally make money by referencing products I don’t really recommend, but people buy them anyhow. You never know what’s going to interest someone…
I use the techniques described by x affiliate dvds and i am also getting good response from the customers.