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

by jennyuk
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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
#affilaite #article #link #question #quick
  • Profile picture of the author Ryan700
    Originally Posted by jennyuk View Post

    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:

    Code:
    http://your-company-name.com
    ...but it would not be permissable to forward to an affiliate link from:

    Code:
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author saintsguy
    You can link to a presell page which links to the affiliate offer.
    Sorry, didn,t see Kevin had already answered this.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author sega001
    You can use squidoo.com or goarticles they will let you put affiliate links in the article or lens. .
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    • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.

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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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