a page with amazon affilate links

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  itsmrbets · Member · May 9, 2013 at 3:58 pm

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  hello
  i just want to double check with people in the know that i can add a page to my blog (wordpress.com) with some books that i recommend.
  with an affiliate tag.

  can i do this and not worry about losing my blog?

  thanks in advance

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · May 9, 2013 at 4:03 pm

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  There must be a real blog and not just pseudo posts designed to drive traffic to third party sites with an affiliate link in each one. The only exceptions to the no affiliate links policy are found here in italics:

  Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes (“Make six figures from home!!”, “20 easy steps to top profits!!”, etc). This includes multi-level marketing (MLM) blogs and pyramid schemes. To be clear, people writing their own original book, movie or game reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category. Here is a thread in the support forums that talks more about which affiliate links are OK or not OK. http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/

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  timethief · Member · May 9, 2013 at 4:05 pm

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  The information at these links clarifies exactly what gets a blog suspended at WordPress.com:
  http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
  http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

  Suspended Content and Sites

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  itsmrbets · Member · May 9, 2013 at 4:35 pm

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  well the links will not be primary content and there will be no get rich quick schemes etc , i think i will be ok to have a page with 3 or 4 affilate amazon links

  could you have a quick look at my blog please and give me your view

  i dont mind a warning they ill take them down i just dont want to be suspended without warning

  thanks

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  timethief · Member · May 9, 2013 at 4:42 pm

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  Though that sounds fine to me do be aware that Volunteers do not make such calls, only Staff do. I tagged this thread for their response Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they reply.

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  itsmrbets · Member · May 9, 2013 at 4:43 pm

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  thanks very much :)

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  kevkoeh · Member · May 9, 2013 at 9:06 pm

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  Hey itsmrbets, the links timethief provided cover all the bases pretty well. The key sentence is this:

  Amazon.com and other select affiliate links are permitted so long as they are not the primary content of the blog in question.

  That’s a little subjective, but if you continue to have original content on your topics and affiliate advertising does not become the main purpose of the site, you’ll be fine. A few Amazon links on a page among all your other content is A-OK.

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  itsmrbets · Member · May 10, 2013 at 12:05 pm

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  thanks