I have no objection to affiliate links on the links page. I think it's a good idea. I do object to the other part of Gus's brainstorm, which (if I read it correctly) was to use the [link] conversion code to automatically convert links in posts to the affiliate address. For example, if Hec was to post the Amazon URL to his new book, the code would convert it not just to [link], but would go even further and convert the link to the Buffistas' affiliate URL. To me that would cross a bunch of ethical lines.
So there is something I can do, besides scream like a woman?
Wesley ,'Chosen'
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DXMachina - Oct 21, 2004 2:53:50 am PDT #2619 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
§ ita § - Oct 21, 2004 3:39:51 am PDT #2620 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Do affiliate links necessarily mean logos?
Nope.
msbelle - Oct 21, 2004 3:48:40 am PDT #2621 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
does powells have an affiliate program? drugstore.com? cafepress?
Fred Pete - Oct 21, 2004 4:03:13 am PDT #2622 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 21, 2004 4:09:59 am PDT #2623 of 10001
What is even happening?
I'm fine with links on the links page, whether it be a vendor-supplied button-graphic thing, or just a plain, old HTML link. I wouldn't like my own link in a post edited to an affiliate link. That would squick me. I realize it was just brain-storming, and it was good brainstorming, at that, but still, I wouldn't like it.
Sue - Oct 21, 2004 4:23:37 am PDT #2624 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Can you do affiliate links to Amazon.ca & .co.uk ?
§ ita § - Oct 21, 2004 4:30:07 am PDT #2625 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
All sorts of places, it seems, have affiliate programs.
I would suggest, if you have a site you shop at, or think people here shop at -- google their name and affiliate program, and come back here with the link, and we can accumulate the possibles.
Kate P. - Oct 21, 2004 4:37:07 am PDT #2626 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I have no problem with affiliate links, though I'd prefer no logos. And it would be great if we could affiliate with indie sites like CDBaby and powells.com as well as Amazon.
Can you do affiliate links to Amazon.ca & .co.uk ?
Don't forget .com.au.
Edit: x-post with ita. I don't have time at work right now to look up these sites.
Also, looks like there is no Amazon.com.au--my mistake.
Gus - Oct 21, 2004 4:39:33 am PDT #2627 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Yes, DX, that was the notion, and, yes, it sneaky and underhanded and otherwise a bad idea because it means all kinds of tricky coding and a table of crossreferences.
Meaning that Microsoft probably already has a patent on it, anyway.
billytea - Oct 21, 2004 4:43:32 am PDT #2628 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Also, looks like there is no Amazon.com.au--my mistake.
t weeps for my Amazonless nation