Amazon.com associates program
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I just joined the Amazon.com associates program since I read in one of your posts that affiliate marketing is allowed. Now I just want to make sure that I can display product links and banner links in my posts?
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Affiliate marketing blogs are not allowed. The main purpose of the blog cannot be driving traffic to other sites. If you are trying to set up an Amazon Store that’s a no go on a free hosted WordPress.com blog. We cannot post any iframes on free hosted WordPress.com blogs. The software will strip the code out to preserve security as this is a multiuser blogging platform.
WordPress.com now allows us to insert our own product text affiliate links within post and page content, as long as they are within the context of the post or page. These can link to Amazon or other third-party affiliate programs.
Image affiliate links, and any affiliate links in widget areas are still considered to be ads and are not allowed on WordPress.com. If you want to run ads on your blogs, see the WordAds program: http://wordads.co
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. http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
See:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
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My blog is not an affiliate marketing blog. After 6 months of blogging I want to explore the option of getting rewarded for my efforts. So for instance I am blogging about my son can I insert a link from Amazon.com for The Very Hungry Caterpillar Counting game? What I understand is that this link should have text only and no image?
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TT replied.
Banner links are not allowed. Widget link codes will not work here as they are insecure and will be stripped out.
You can use image links or text links, they just have to be the plain HTML links that you get from the Link To Any Page/Product page on the affiliate site. No carousels. Nothing fancy. Just a plain text or image link.
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