It's only unethical if you alter your honest opinion about a product in order to promote its affiliate link. But otherwise if there's full disclosure and there'

It's only unethical if you alter your honest opinion about a product in order to promote its affiliate link. But otherwise if there's full disclosure and there's nothing deceptive about the link, then there's nothing wrong with affiliate links. To some extent, its only natural to be a bit cautious about affiliate links because some shady "internet marketers" have used affiliate links in dishonest ways in the past - hiding the fact that they were affiliate links and not disclosing the fact that there is a paid relationship that could affect somebody's opinion. But that doesn't imply that all or even most affiliate links are bad. On the contrary, I think more bloggers should ditch all kinds of crazy ads that track you across the internet and switch to simple affiliate links. If you run a blog about surfing or photography or whatever, you already know what types of products your readers are going to be interested in and can make money by providing quality product recommendations. Affiliate links seem like a natural fit to a lot of smaller, niche blogs as it really rewards the effort spent in creating high quality content because people will trust your recommendations more.