EzineArticles Guidelines

Man, I'm a little confused after reading the EzineArticles guidelines again. (haven't done it in a while).

They make big, specific points on affiliate links and redirecting:

1. EzineArticles.com Editorial Guidelines: (AFFILIATE PROGRAMS):
   
   Affiliate links will be allowed if the link is a domain name you own which forward/redirects to the affiliate link from the top-level of the domain name. For example, it is permissible to forward to an affiliate link from:
   
   http://your-company-name.com/
   
   ...but it would not be permissible 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
   http://sub-domain.your-company-name.com/
   
   Any article with an affiliate link that does not adhere to this guideline will cause the article to be rejected.

When I started reading articles on their site and clicking on links in people's resource boxes, I got a lot of affiliate sites, some seemed direct and some looked like the "illegal" subdomain forward (4th red line above).

Have they changed their thinking on affiliate links? A few years ago I got an article rejected and the link was to a top level address of a site I owned. It was OKed quickly...but i was surprised at the time that they rejected it.

Now, with some of the links I have been clicking on in resource boxes, I'm not sure what is really "legal" to them. Like I said, I have clicked on links and have gone to a lot of affiliate pages...directly it seems on some. Others have been redirected it looks like, but not always according to their guidelines.

Anyone see this stuff too?

Thanks,

Andyf