Linking and then asking for payment to keep the link?
The pages all include some affiliate links too, so at first I figured they were just trying to round things out and make it look less biased by including the biggest products/merchants they don't have affiliate deals for. The merchants in question do not seem to have affiliate programs and/or have told me they do not.
But then I thought, maybe the two parties have a monthly or CPC deal rather than affiliate commission? Maybe the merchant is getting enough traffic from the link that the blogger was able to convince them to pay for it at some point? I would imagine there's a whole strategy for this already and a name for it.
Have you ever successfully negotiated a fee from a merchant, probably after establishing consistent traffic flow to the merchant? i wonder how much traffic/earnings it would take?
FYI I earn an average of $0.30/click through affiliate links. The merchants' margins are limited in this industry, and affiliate commissions are typically 5%.
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