Some posts on All Freelance Writing contain affiliate links which help to monetize the blog. Affiliate links are used for two primary reasons:
- To avoid the need for more intrusive advertising in posts.
- To allow advertising to be more merit-based than other forms of advertising where I don’t have full control over all ads displayed.
Affiliate links are included under the following terms:
- Any reviews containing affiliate links will be a completely honest review. I don’t write glowing reviews just to push sales. I’ll generally include both positive elements of a product as well as suggestions for improvement if I find faults.
- If I would not be willing to genuinely recommend a product overall, then no affiliate links will be used in the post.
- Posts containing affiliate links will contain a disclaimer at the top of the post. This is a new policy as of August 15, 2009 – if you find older posts that I haven’t discovered and updated yet, contact me through the About page and I’ll add the disclaimer.
- If an affiliate product was given to me for free for review, a notice will be placed at the top of the post. This policy also begins August 15, 2009, and I make no guarantee that all older posts have been found and updated yet with the disclaimer.
Note that these terms apply to affiliate text links within the content of posts. There may also be affiliate-linked image ads with some posts (only where the ad is relevant to something in the post). These banner ads will only appear at the bottom of a post so as to not intrude on the actual content. As these are obvious ads and not text links embedded within the content (which could be otherwise midleading) a notice will not be placed at the top of a post noting affiliate ads are present if only an image ad below the post exists. If both text links and a banner are present, the notice will appear at the top of the post.
Last updated October 20, 2009.
