a quick question about having an affilaite link in an article. Can I do it?

[jennyuk]

Hi beautiful warriors,

Could someone help me with this please.

I wrote a short article and tried to post it on Ezine Articles.

But it was rejected because I had put in an affilaite link of mine to a product that the article was related to.

They are saying that I must remove the affiliate link in order to get the article accepted.

But, and I know I may sound blond here, doesn't that kind of defeats the whole purpose of the article in the first place, if I can't link to a sales page? That's why I created the article - to generate traffic to this sales page.

Am I missing something obvious?

Thank you very much

[Ryan700]

Originally Posted by jennyuk

Hi beautiful warriors,
They are saying that I must remove the affiliate link in order to get the article accepted.

Am I missing something obvious?

Thank you very much

In #9 on EzineArticles.com Terms of Service For Authors

You declare that you will not send in any articles with direct affiliate links in them. We reject articles with direct affiliate links. It is ok, however, forward/redirect to an affiliate link from the top-level of a domain name you own. For example, it is permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com

...but it would not be permissable to forward to an affiliate link from:

http://your-company-name.com/page.html
http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/
http://your-company-name.com/subdirectory/page.html

This is one of our many article quality standards.


At Clickbank - https://www.clickbank.com/affiliate_tools.html

#2 - Cloak a HopLink

There are a few different options available to cloak a HopLink. The simplest approach is to use the HopLink Shield, which encodes the affiliate and vendor nicknames.

If you prefer to also cloak the ClickBank portion of the HopLink we recommend sending the customer to a URL of your own that redirects them through the correct HopLink. To do this uses the HTML below. Don't forget to replace each occurrence of AFFILIATE and VENDOR with the correct value!

etc. follow the directions

There is another way with your hosting provider where you redirect to an affiliate link from your own domain.

All three options require that you get a domain name.

[Kevin Riley]

Jenny

That's EA rules. You cannot have an affiliate link.

Instead, set up a blog. Link to it. On the blog, do some more active pre-selling (which EA also frowns upon) and then send the reader through your aff link.

[saintsguy]

You can link to a presell page which links to the affiliate offer.
Sorry, didn,t see Kevin had already answered this.

[dave147]

Some directories will allow aff links in the article but not Ezine and other top directories.
You could purchase product related domain name and redirect it to your aff link

[Kevin Koop]

Originally Posted by Joeman

What about using sub domains such as:

http://product1.your-company-name.com

or even

http://www1.your-company-name.com

Are subdomains acceptable? that would save you buying a domain for every affiliate link!

From a technical standpoint, it is possible to either create a subdomain that will be redirected thru the affiliate link or through a php or html redirect uploaded to your server.

However, this is still against EzineArticles TOS and you may get yourself suspended.

They want you to link from your Resource Box to a site/blog or other web property (like a Squidoo lens, etc) and not simply redirect to someone else's property thru a redirected affiliate link.

[Ian Middleton]

Hi Jenny,

Most sites will not allow you to do that anyway, but if you simply put your links into two or three sentences as your bio-box there is no problem with that.

I hope that helps you

Ian

[sega001]

You can use squidoo.com or goarticles they will let you put affiliate links in the article or lens. .

[jennyuk]

Guys this is SO helpful - thank you. I understand now.

May I ask one further question please?

Can I put an affiliate link in my RESOURCE BOX then - not in the main body of the article?

Thank you again.

Jenn x

[talfighel]

Yeah, you can not have an affiliate link inside the article and I also know that you can not have one in your sig. If you are using a link in your resource box that looks like this:

affiliatesite.com/342342342

This is not allowed. You need to have you own domain name there so it would look like this:

YOURDOMAINNAME.com

This is allowed but you can not have a link of any kind inside the article itself.

Tal

[mostphere]

Hi Jenny...

Ezinearticles is not the only place for you to publish your articles. You read someone told that Goarticles allowed aff links too. I like Zimbio too, they allowed the affiliate links and they are get indexed fast and no waiting for approval.

[Alexa Smith]

Originally Posted by jennyuk

May I ask one further question please?

Can I put an affiliate link in my RESOURCE BOX then - not in the main body of the article?

Jenny, the quick, easy way round this, if you want to send people directly from an EZA article to an affiliate-link sales-page (not everyone's choice), is just to buy a "dot-info" domain-name somewhere like Godaddy for 99 cents, use it as the link in your author resource-box for as many articles as you like, and forward it (with masking, if you wish) from the registrar to whatever affiliate-link you want. As long as it's a top-level domain-name and not a sub-domain, it's perfectly acceptable to EZA to do that, and they say so openly.