Affiliate Links in Signature

Do you control the site? The rule is about only linking to sites you own or control.

What do you mean by "represent?" If you don't actually own the site, you can't use such a link in your sig. If you do, you'll be permanently banned from using a signature. Seriously, don't try working around it. They know.

Most sigs are clean and easy on the eye and adhere to the rules. Yours didn't.

Unless you are this guy Dror Riov and also live in Tel-Aviv then no you don't own the site and therefore can't advertise it in your Sig...

It's only allowed if you own the domain. With that number showing at the end it shows you don't actually own the domain and that number is your is affiliate id.

Why don't you just buy a new domain and build a landing page with your tracking link and place the URL in your forum sig? It's so much easier even though people do need a little more steps to join your affiliate network

I thought it was always this way. Most forums don't like affiliate links.

My 2 cents.

If you put up a blog/lead page to use in your sig, just as a way to 'get around' the rule, the mods are smart enough to figure this out. They have to make a judgement call sometimes, and nobody's perfect. But the more people who bend the rule, the more likely sigs will get pulled entirely.

My advice is to put your link to your own blog in sig, and make sure your blog really is a content-heavy blog you update and add value to regularly. Then if you have ads on your blog to your affiliate program, so what, that's fine.

So it's really a matter of intent. What does it look like your intention is? If you intend to have a blog, then you're fine. If you intend to have a landing page for your affiliate program you're not fine.

Thanks for the replies guys! I'm just not that familiar with all the forum rules yet! So would Dror Riov (the registrar) have to provide his ID along with some other documents in order to have this sort of signature approved? Or how does it work?

I've been seeing a lot of forum members with links to the affiliate networks they seem to represent (here is just a short list I made in 60 seconds):

CPAleadPeter
hbeladiya
ProfitLinx Evaldas
OfficialsAaron
nicholaoptionbotaffiliate
World Leads

Are they all owners of the domains they list in their signature? If yes (and apparently the answer has to be yes) how did they prove the ownership? And how do you prove that you are actually the owner and not somebody else working for the owner?

Sorry for the stupid questions, I just need to make sense of the rules.

No affiliate links in signatures

This does raise a good question about the rule. We have, for example, Payoneer representatives that have come here before answering questions about Payoneer. There have been other companies that have sent representatives too. Of course this isn't a customer support forum for these companies but questions get asked all day long about certain companies rules or procedures or talking about their problems.

Let's say that Google or PayPal or Clickbank sent an official rep to answer questions. Shouldn't FL allow it? And wouldn't it seem fitting that contact information be included in the sig? Or no?

I also agree about the abuse this would lead to by everyone all the sudden becoming a representative just so they could get their affiliate link seen.

Mark

Unfortunately the Warriorforum does not support the Affiliate link on the signature. In this case you broke the rules & regulation of the signature. You should read any site rules & regulation before putting your link. thanks

Hello, Yes you can use affiliate links on the signatures. No problems.
Thanks.

So many people in this thread keep referring to "affiliate links are not allowed in sig file" when he clearly stated that he works for the company as an employee like so many other affiliate managers do for other CPA networks who participate and provide value in here.

Apples and oranges.

The issue, as Kindsvater eluded too, was that your tracking link that you're using to see if anyone actually clicks it and joins your network from here, looks just like an affiliate link.

Unless he's trying to get 2nd tier signups, pretty sure his sig is ok.

Probably would be smart to not make it look like an affiliate link though moving forward.

Promote Your Own Domain/s Only should probably be worded differently. I say this because you can promote a domain you own but that domain then forwards to an affiliate link or something similar. That gets your sig removed as well.

Yeah sorry buddy it's all about ownership - although how it's possible to check that I don't know. Bascially they are looking for high level domain names i.e. .com, .uk. org etc.......

I am also a little bit confused here. We have representatives from several companies including getresponse that have sig links to the main company....we allow those employees to post on behalf of those legit companies with sigs that link to those companies.

Obviously, I am not for affiliate links, but I think there is a difference when you are employed by a company and representing them vs just an affiliate trying to make a buck.

To me it seems the difference is in you direct motivation to post. An employee of getclicky or getresponse will mostly be posting to help resolve issues and provide value...an affiliate will usually be posting just to get sig clicks.

I understand the slippery slope concept here, but I don't really have a problem with an employee of a. Established and fairly well recognized company having a link to their employer in the sig. In fact, it's helpful to me really....I know who they are and that they are endorsed to speak on behalf of the company they represent.

We just had one from flippa and a cpa site do this exact same thing with sig links for the company that employs them