To clarify, this article is focusing on affiliatizing product links in editorial content--not affiliate links in general. One overlooked point is the potential

To clarify, this article is focusing on affiliatizing product links in editorial content--not affiliate links in general. One overlooked point is the potential costs of writing biased articles to boost affiliate commissions. Anyone serious about maintaining and building readership would avoid this at all costs. In the long-run, doing so would ultimately be ROI negative (unless the author's sole goal is to create a thin affiliate site). As other commenters have mentioned, most savvy Internet user can see through these ploys. The victims are the more unsophisticated that find review sites through long-tail Google searches and not through blog subscriptions. Thin affiliate sites are generally to blame, not the serious content producers.