Can I place Amazon products on my blog?

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  harriemccombs · Member · Jun 19, 2012 at 7:26 pm

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  I need to know if I can put amazon products on my blog if they are connected to the subject of my blog.
  I have an amazon affilliate website.
  Blog url: http://harriesmegamall.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Jun 19, 2012 at 7:29 pm

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  No you cannot. Please read these:
  http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
  http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
  http://http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/

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  timethief · Member · Jun 19, 2012 at 7:32 pm

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  Note this narrow exception section in italics below applies only to your own products:

  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.

  Please note this as well > WordPress.com vs WordPress.org

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  sensuouscurmudgeon · Member · Jun 19, 2012 at 8:20 pm

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  In case anyone else stumbles onto this thread, it should be mentioned that if a book is being discussed, merely linking to its Amazon listing is no problem at all, as long as the link is merely informational, and the blogger doesn’t have an affiliate relationship with Amazon.

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  projectprofits · Member · Jun 20, 2012 at 6:01 pm

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  Yes, you can.

  If you write your own original movie review or game review or any other product review (they can’t list every product category in that policy, those are just examples), you can link to Amazon’ product or any other legitimate and well known store’ product. Amazon as the biggest store is, again, just an example.

  It does not have to be your own product. I mean come on, someone has created a movie and he is going to come to WordPress to promote it?

  It doesn’t matter if you are affiliated with Amazon or not. Of course you’ll be using affiliate link (this is why they’ve putted it in “Affiliate marketing blogs” section.

  This has been said so many times.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 20, 2012 at 9:38 pm

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  You have no idea how many blogs have been suspended. NO idea.

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  aholste11 · Member · Jun 23, 2012 at 12:07 pm

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  I have a photoblog and am about to start selling jewelry on etsy. I was thinking of posting photos of my new items with a link to the etsy site. I was also thinking of creating a page dedicated just for this, so I’m not disrupting the flow of the photoblogging. Is all etsy-linking allowed or is there a vague amount/frequency that can’t be crossed?