I have a question about adding a signature

by awww1some

Posted: 10 years ago 11 replies

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I joined a company where i can use a link to a page that explains the offer. I have my domain that i own own for it. Can i use my domain that leads to the site or can i use their links? Do i have to buy hosting. I have never owned a website or blog before. Do i have to have a site or a blog. Their site is better than what i can do.

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Rod Cortez

10 years ago

This is straight from the WF signature rules:

(5) No Affiliate Links Allowed - Promote Your Own Domain/s Only. It's either this or we have to cut out sig files altogether which we do not want to do.

(6) Anyone Caught Promoting The Same Site/Offer Will Be Deleted. Program owners are telling their members to come here and make posts to promote their offer in their sig files. This has caused tons of useless messages to be posted and it is clogging up the forum. Anyone caught doing this will have to be removed. This is not an ad forum - it is a discussion forum.

We have no problem with someone linking to their WSO within their sig.

Due to certain people trying to find a loophole I needed to add yet another edit. Please do not try to get around these rules by getting your own domain name and simply redirecting it to an affiliate program. You Will Be Removed From Here When Caught.

A simple way to stay within this rule is this:

Promote Your Own Real Web Site And Do Not Listen To Anyone Who Tells You To Come Here Just To Promote A Site They Created For You.

That should answer your question.

RoD

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awww1some 10 years ago

The rules say (5) No Affiliate Links Allowed - Promote Your Own Domain/s Only.

How do you know if it is an affiliate link?

I click on signatures all the time that take me to an offer where someone is paying them money. Not everything is their own product.

The rules say 6) Anyone Caught Promoting The Same Site/Offer.
What is same/site offer? I have my own domain name that goes to an sales page.
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- Alexa Smith Banned 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by awww2some
  
  How do you know if it is an affiliate link?
  
  Experience (and a suspicious mind ).
  
  Originally Posted by awww2some
  
  I have my own domain name that goes to an sales page.
  
  You can't use a domain-name (even if you own it) in a sig-file here that's redirected to an affiliate-incentivized sales-page. What matters is what the link resolves to, not just how it appears.
  
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awww1some

10 years ago

What i can't understand is all these warriors that take you to an affiliate site. Some have there own products with their own site but the vast majority do not. "They didn't build that,someone else built that"
I think i heard that somewhere before. Any way. you click on their signature and you are taken to a sales page and it is someone else pitching it. Am i missing something subtle hear? I don;t see why they are allowed. Aren't they getting paid if someone buys the offer.

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webmarke

10 years ago

Originally Posted by awww2some

You can argue the fact that most people sigs lead to affiliate links all you want to...But it's simply not true.

And more importantly...It's stupid to link to an affiliate link.

Why would you send traffic to an affiliate link and lose that traffic 99% of the time without making a dime.

All the smart warriors use their sigs to send people to squeeze pages so they own the traffic instead of giving it to the product owner.

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Alexa Smith Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by awww2some

What i can't understand is all these warriors that take you to an affiliate site.

When I see those, I report them to the moderators, and those links disappear. There are very few of them, though. They're typically new members who just haven't read the rules (which a moderator has kindly quoted to you, above) and made a mistake, not realising that that isn't allowed here.

Originally Posted by awww2some

Some have there own products with their own site but the vast majority do not.

This is incorrect.

Originally Posted by awww2some

Any way. you click on their signature and you are taken to a sales page and it is someone else pitching it. Am i missing something subtle hear?

It's possible that occasionally they might be running a formal joint venture with another Warrior, of which the forum is already aware, but mostly not, I think. (That's an occasional legitimate reason why a Warrior might link to another Warrior's WSO: it certainly wouldn't be allowed as "just an affiliate link".)

Originally Posted by awww2some

I don't see why they are allowed.

That doesn't actually matter.

Just help us all out, if you will, by reporting posts with affiliate-links in signatures to the moderators. If those links then disappear (as they nearly always will), you were right, and you've done the forum a favor. It's not complicated.

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erptraining9

10 years ago

Hi,

I see a lot's of forum messages includes links to other websites at the end of the message. Is this allowed?

P.S. I am not referring to signature links, rather the links found at the bottom of some forum messages.

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marketingva

10 years ago

Originally Posted by erptraining9

No. When you see those report them to the mods.

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awww1some 10 years ago

Here is what you wrote
.Why would you send traffic to an affiliate link and lose that traffic 99% of the time without making a dime.

The site is not the type of affiliate site that i see on the forum. I had to pay a monthly fee to get paid. A friend of mine made over $23,000 in 2 months, so it is worth the cost. I get to keep the list and i make 100%. They gave me links to a bunch of sales pages that convert. All i do is get traffic and make 100% and they get a small monthly fee from me.

I am not trying to skate the rules. I am just trying to make money. Maybe this is not an affiliate. As i stated, affiliates don't ask for a monthly fee.

what i am really asking is. "If you do not have a product of your own, how do you know what type of product to get"? How does a newbie know before he buys it if Warrior Forum ill allow it before you buy.
I see signatures that send me to a sight or sales page. I am sure they make a profit. They must be making a profit or they would not pay for a signature.
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- Alexa Smith Banned 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by awww2some
  
  As i stated, affiliates don't ask for a monthly fee.
  
  Some do, actually.
  
  Originally Posted by awww2some
  
  How does a newbie know before he buys it if Warrior Forum ill allow it before you buy.
  
  By reading the rules. (And, to be fair, by asking as you're doing, as there are a couple of small points not explained expressly in the rules. For example, you can link to your own Fiverr gig or Squidoo lens, even though you don't own fiverr.com or squidoo.com).
  
  If it's a "replicated"/"duplicated" page which belongs to someone else's business, then you can't link to it in a Warrior Forum signature-file, even if you own the domain linked-to yourself.
  
  Originally Posted by awww2some
  
  I see signatures that send me to a sight or sales page. I am sure they make a profit. They must be making a profit or they would not pay for a signature.
  
  First, there's no charge for a signature. (Only for an image - that's another matter).
  
  Secondly, loads of signature-files link to sales pages, but those are businesses in which the person using the sig-file owns the product and it's their own sales page. (If you see any others, just report them to the moderators and they'll be removed).
  
  But what you're asking about isn't allowed. I know the type of arrangement you're referring to. I see those being removed. They're not really "your own page", are they? They're replicated ones. That's going to be a "no".
  
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- sbucciarel Banned 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by awww2some
  
  *** They gave me links to a bunch of sales pages that convert. All i do is get traffic and make 100% and they get a small monthly fee from me. ***
  
  That's not allowed, as stated by Alexa and a moderator here. You can promote the offer on your own domain and your own sales page. You cannot redirect the domain to their links or pages or link directly using their links and pages.
  
  Signatures are free except for the image ones, but your signature can disappear permanently real fast if you break the rules.
  
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