BUY THE BOOK button on blog header

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  fransvischer · Member · May 4, 2013 at 11:47 pm

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  How do I add a permanent BUY THE BOOK button or link to my blog header?

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

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  thistimethisspace · Member · May 4, 2013 at 11:49 pm

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  You cannot embed links in any header image here.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · May 4, 2013 at 11:50 pm

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  Also note that you cannot market any book you are not the author of from your blog.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · May 5, 2013 at 12:09 am

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  There must be a real blog and not just pseudo posts designed to drive traffic to third party sites. 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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  thistimethisspace · Member · May 5, 2013 at 12:10 am

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  Drat! I forgot to italicize this bit:

  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.

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  fransvischer · Member · May 5, 2013 at 1:30 am

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  Thank you for your response. The blog, pamperedfatcat is my blog, supporting my children’s book, Fuddles, which I wrote and illustrated. To help sell the book, I’d like a simple link straight to Amazon.com.
  I’ll continue researching this.
  Frans Vischer

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · May 5, 2013 at 4:17 am

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  Hi fransvischer,
  I’ve put a modlook tag on this thread so staff will take a look at your situation and make a decision about whether or not you can or not put a link to the Amazon sale for your book into your sidebar without violating the TOS.
  We volunteers cannot make such decisions.
  Please subscribe to this thread so you will be notified when there is an official response.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 5, 2013 at 5:19 am

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  In this case that’s perfectly fine.

  To be clear, the book is being sold through Amazon and not the blog, so it’s perfectly fine to link to it on Amazon just as you would link to any product on Amazon.

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  fransvischer · Member · May 5, 2013 at 5:19 am

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  Thanks for the response, 1tess. Much appreciated.
  Frans

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  fransvischer · Member · May 5, 2013 at 5:22 am

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  Correct, macmanx. I’m not selling the book myself. It’s published by Simon & Schuster. I’m simply publicizing it with the blog.
  Frans

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · May 5, 2013 at 5:26 am

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  Hi Frans,
  I’m happy that this has been resolved. Best wishes for your blog and the pampered fat cat…
  ≥^!^≤

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 5, 2013 at 5:45 am

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  You’re welcome!