Can I link to Amazon.com products (with affiliate) and Paypal donation buttons?
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I am designing a blog for our church and I would like to have a page full of recommended books that link to affiliate amazon.com products. Likewise, I would like to have a Paypal donation widget. Will this get my site suspended/deleted?
I can port this over to .org, but I would like to know if these links are allowable on .com
Thanks!
Blog url: http://aikenuu.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Yes. You are not allowed to set up an Amazon store front blog. There is only one advertising program called WordAds at WordPress.com and it’s for blogs on their own domains. This is the homepage for the WordAds program: http://www.wordads.co/ There you will find the application page as well as FAQs.
Aside from a blog being accepted into WordAds, no blogger initiated advertising, retailing or reselling the work or products created or services provided by anyone other than yourself is allowed on free hosted wordpress.com blogs. E-commerce transactions via shopping carts and the like cannot be conducted on free blogs from and being free hosted by wordpress.com
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
http://en.wordpress.com/tos/types of blogs that are not allowed – note the narrow exception 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. http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/If you do require an ecommerce site, advertising and/or affiliate links you can hire a web host and get a free software install from http://wordpress.org Refer to > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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You can have a PayPal donation button http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/ and/or a customizable contact form. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/
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