blogging about local deals / coupons

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  pje101 · Member · Jan 7, 2013 at 4:03 pm

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  Hi I am setting up a blog about food in my home town.

  If I see a deal on another website eg http://www.travelzoo.com is it alright to post this to my blog.

  On travelzoo there is an option to share on wordpress so I assume this is a common thing that people do but I just wanted to check this didn’t break the advertisement rules set by wordpress.com.

  If this is ok I assume then if i see a cookbook half price on amazon it is also ok to tell my followers about this?

  For all of the aforementioned situations I would not be getting paid or receiving any gifts from the companies.

  Thanks for any help,

  Peter

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 7, 2013 at 4:21 pm

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  It’s not against the rules to blog about deals or link to them; it’s only against the rules to get paid for it.

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  pje101 · Member · Jan 7, 2013 at 5:22 pm

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  Thanks very much for your response.

  I’ve seen there are a few coupon specific blogs so am more confident this is ok and does not breach the T&C of wordpress.com

  In each post I think I’ll put a message saying I did not receive any payment or anything in return for posting a link to deal.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 7, 2013 at 5:27 pm

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  Just put that in a text widget in the sidebar or footer. No need to keep reposting it.