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I would suggest, as I have seen heavily used on forums, that you provide two urls for readers. One would be a direct link, and the secondary link contains the
by jqueryin 17y ago
I would suggest, as I have seen heavily used on forums, that you provide two urls for readers. One would be a direct link, and the secondary link contains the affiliate id. I personally like to think of it as along the same lines of a "contribute" paypal link on low traffic blogs.
I tend to manually remove affiliate URLs from links if I was not given a choice. I tend to be more favorable of signing up or purchasing with affiliate URLs when:
* I was given a decision to opt in
* I was notified that the link contained an affiliate code up front.
- petervandijck 17y agoThat's really probably just you :) I'd just add the link, don't see the harm done.
- tuacker 17y agoI'm with you on this one. I don't see the problem with affilate links. It doesn't change the value you get out of the product. Sure there might be a few odd people out there who live of affilate links but is that a bad thing? If someone sees value in the information they've been provided where is the harm?
- zzzmarcus 17y agoThe harm is just that you have to question the motivation for posting the link in the first place. "Is this person posting this because they really like the product or because they get a kickback?"
- csomar 17y agoAs long as weired spammers don't discover the site and come here to post their reviews. Imagine HN flooding with such comments, how'd you moderate this?