Blogging about leadership books / amazon links
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I’m new to blogging. My blog is about leadership. I run a leadership-focused book club in my local area where we read classic & new leadership books then discuss them. I would like to provide links to Amazon so the books can be purchased quickly. most people who will read my blog will be those involved in, or following, our club. I am also in the Amazon Affiliate program in anticipation of having a website where I can use this blog; that will be self-hosted and I understand won’t be a problem. Can I include links to the books I’m reviewing in this wordpress blog: theconwellgroup.wordpress.com?
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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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I’ve read that several times and it could be more clear. I blog about leadership, management, innovation, and a wide variety of related topics. my blog exists to keep people informed. my blog’s primary purpose is NOT to “drive traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes.” the purpose of including links is for the convenience of people who want to purchase books we have read and discussed or plan to read and discuss. can I include amazon links to the books we read and discuss?
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Why wouldn’t they borrow them form a library?
Why would they have to purchase only through Amazon?
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Why through Amazon and why an affiliate link? Why not Barnes & Nobel with a clean link or to your local book store with a clean link?? Or as @TT says – why not the library? much better then many people share the same book
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Hi auxclass,
I am a member of a very small online reading club (private blog) and I don’t cotton to anyone telling me where to get my books from. The last thing I ever do is purchase a book new. -
We not only encourage the local libraries, we partner with them as well as several other local professional groups. The library is one of my favorite places to spend time … that or a nice big book store with coffee. I do borrow some of the books I read from the library, but then again, so do a lot of others. we try to keep the library informed of our choices, as well as the one tiny local bookstore we have just in case he wants to have some onhand (and frequently, he does!). But if you’re a reader of leadership & business books and anything like the rest of us, being able to underline and write notes in the margin of a hardcopy book you own is the very best way to go. I want to add this option because the reading group asked me to set up a blog and specifically to add the amazon links to books we plan to read and have read. (we’re partnered with book clubs in two other states that follow what we’re reading as well). Amazon is just where most people in our leadership group buy the books we read, whether kindle or hardcover.
In addition, we live in a rather rural area; for some people who attend, the trip to a book store is 45 minutes, minimum. many attendees work in the defense industry, which means they’re working much more than the usual 8 hours a day, have kids in sports, live quite a drive from work (no one I know has less than a 30 minute drive, most drive 45 one way to work) etc. We’ve pulled resources to save shipping and all ordered the same book. but most people just prefer to order from Amazon because they have accounts and it’s quick and easy to find even some of the older books we’ve read recently.
Having said that, timethief, in no way shape or form am i even remotely capable of “telling” anyone where to get their books. I’m responding to a group request. In addition, many people enjoy ‘new’ books and have the disposable income to purchase tons and tons. We do not tell people they must go to the library or must purchase used or even must purchase hardcopy. As a matter of fact, they don’t even have to read the whole book to attend. It’s just that as leaders, we typically do.
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I have a “real” site – have some recommended books – I could probably do an Amazon affiliate thing – but why run the hassle of the Terms of Service group have a bad day on my site – most of my recommendations can also be found in a used book store – save even more money and recycle things –
So I just give the recommendations and you can find the books yourself –
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I live on a tiny island off the coast of Canada and a trip to the big island is a minimum of 3 hours journey forward and back by vehicle and ferry, without including any time to do anything in between.
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