Guidance for affiliate marketing

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  cloudstweet · Member · Jul 28, 2012 at 5:25 pm

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  hi my site is https://cloudstweet.wordpress.com/cloud-books-2/.In that section i want to add books from different book store sites for affiliate marketing.how can i do this.please tell me.i am new to wordpress.
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  thistimethisspace · Member · Jul 28, 2012 at 5:29 pm

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  Affilate marketing blogs are not allowed. To be clear you are not allowed to set up a store front. Your blog must be an actual blog.

  Advertising outside of WordAds at WordPress.com, including affiliate links, is not allowed. For full details, please see:
  http://support.wordpress.com/advertising/
  http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
  The only exceptions are 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/

  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/ 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.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
  http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

  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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  cloudstweet · Member · Jul 28, 2012 at 6:23 pm

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  thanks a lot for quick reply.now if i go for hosting with you paying $18 as i already have the domain name cloudstweet.com then can i do affiliate marketing?

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Jul 28, 2012 at 6:36 pm

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  No. There is no upgrade you can purchsase from WordPress.com that will allow you to have an affiliate marketing blog. http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/#important-notes-before-upgrading
  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/