WordPress.com Forums » Tag: types of blogs - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/types-of-blogs WordPress.com Forums » Tag: types of blogs - Recent Posts en Fri, 24 May 2013 17:21:03 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 thistimethisspace on "Selling Books and Art" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/selling-books-and-art#post-1204478 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:22:51 +0000 thistimethisspace 1204478@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ As you noted above, There must be a real blog and not just pseudo posts designed to drive traffic to third party sites. The only exceptions to the no affiliate links policy are found here in italics:

Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes (“Make six figures from home!!”, “20 easy steps to top profits!!”, etc). This includes multi-level marketing (MLM) blogs and pyramid schemes. To be clear, people writing their own original book, movie or game reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category. Here is a thread in the support forums that talks more about which affiliate links are OK or not OK. http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/

]]> thistimethisspace on "Selling Books and Art" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/selling-books-and-art#post-1204470 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:18:53 +0000 thistimethisspace 1204470@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

am I allowed to add links to my book on Amazon.com and/or Lulu.com, and links to my art on deviantART, since I am the creator--even though they are not being bought from the blog directly?

Yes.

]]> sileniusprojects on "Selling Books and Art" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/selling-books-and-art#post-1204463 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:15:25 +0000 sileniusprojects 1204463@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hello,
I know that this is a long letter, but please hear me out. I am a new blogger, and I have a concern I'd like to make known before I begin setting up my blog. I have reviewed several forums and reviewed ToS to the best of my ability within wordpress regarding selling products and adding affiliate links. I do not want to come under the radar of violating the ToS or other conditions, so before I start anything, I want to make sure that I am following the rules.
I am an artist and trying to become an author. I am currently in the works of writing a book, and ultimately plan on uploading it to the publishing website Lulu.com. From there, the information will be sent out to Amazon.com. I also have a deviantART account where I already have several prints ready.
My goal is to form a central hub of information about myself and how to find my art and works. I also plan to use wordpress as a blog to display the art and show snippets of my book to engage readers and buyers. From what I've read, bloggers are allowed to sell their products if they are the creator. Also adding an affiliate link to Amazon is allowed.
My question is this: am I allowed to add links to my book on Amazon.com and/or Lulu.com, and links to my art on deviantART, since I am the creator--even though they are not being bought from the blog directly? I do plan to use my blog for its intended purpose as well, by posting pictures of my art and snippets of my book.

]]> timethief on "Soccer predictions blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/soccer-predictions-blog#post-1064459 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:58:35 +0000 timethief 1064459@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome.

]]> pestadioane on "Soccer predictions blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/soccer-predictions-blog#post-1064404 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:03:35 +0000 pestadioane 1064404@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Its nothing about the monetary wager. I dont encourage bets or something like that. This blog will be something like one place where we talk about soccer results and we make kind of predictions.
I have readed and I think everything is ok. Thank you alot!

P.S: sorry about my english

]]> timethief on "Soccer predictions blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/soccer-predictions-blog#post-1064396 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:51:46 +0000 timethief 1064396@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ As long as your aren't running a bookie operation and taking bets ie. monetary wager, then it's legal to blog on the subject. Please check our page on types of blogs for more information about what content is and isn’t welcome on WordPress.com.
http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/

]]> pestadioane on "Soccer predictions blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/soccer-predictions-blog#post-1064388 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:44:41 +0000 pestadioane 1064388@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Is legally to make a soccer predictions blog (a blog where I and more of my friends write about soccer predictions)? I really enjoy to make predictions and I really can helo a lot of people with this predictions.
Blog url: http://pestadioane.wordpress.com/

]]> burningparadisevideo on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-988793 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:54:18 +0000 burningparadisevideo 988793@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, you can have Amazon affiliate links.

Via: http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/

"There are exceptions to this policy. Amazon.com and other select affiliate links are permitted so long as they are not the primary content of the blog in question. Other exceptions are made on a case-by-case basis."

]]> raincoaster on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-987134 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:35:17 +0000 raincoaster 987134@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome.

]]> phraseandfable on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-987101 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:56:06 +0000 phraseandfable 987101@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Crikey. I may be some time... Thanks so much for your advice. I'll come back if I'm still stuck!

]]> raincoaster on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-987099 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:54:48 +0000 raincoaster 987099@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes: give up on the slideshow. NONE of the Amazon widget codes will work here.

You can use plain old links, to each product at a time.

]]> phraseandfable on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-987093 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:51:01 +0000 phraseandfable 987093@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have 121 books (amazing but true) on Amazon, so I have put together a slideshow widget that I want to use on my blog. I can't find a text-based option for the slideshow. Advice?!

]]> raincoaster on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-987074 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:35:19 +0000 raincoaster 987074@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There IS a text based option. Go to your Affiliate log in, search for the product, ie your book, then click to get the link. JUST the text link; there are usually four tabs: Picture, text, text and image, and something else I forget. Just get the Text link. And be sure to put it in the Text editor, not the Visual editor.

]]> phraseandfable on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-987058 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:23:09 +0000 phraseandfable 987058@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ pcrumm: hi there! Thanks for this advice. I've just emailed a request to Amazon for a text or image-based link option instead of the flash-based one I've been given. I'll probably be in touch again when I receive it as I've never done any of this before!

]]> pcrumm on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-986997 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:40:14 +0000 pcrumm 986997@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hey there,

You won't be able to embed flash-based Amazon affiliate links on WordPress.com blogs. You will need to use a text or image-based affiliate link option, which Amazon should provide.

]]> phraseandfable on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-986982 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:30:52 +0000 phraseandfable 986982@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ <OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab" id="Player_03a62474-4515-480a-81db-362a2b6dae68" WIDTH="160px" HEIGHT="600px"> <PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://ws.amazon.co.uk/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=GB&ID=V20070822%2FGB%2Fwwwphraseandf-21%2F8003%2F03a62474-4515-480a-81db-362a2b6dae68&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate"><PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high"><PARAM NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="#FFFFFF"><PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"><embed src

]]> pcrumm on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-986978 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:27:25 +0000 pcrumm 986978@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hey there,

Can you please post the code that Amazon has provided?

Best,
P.

]]> phraseandfable on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-986966 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:18:34 +0000 phraseandfable 986966@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi bryanvillarin. Thanks for your comment. Being a techy numbskull (see above) I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean. I want to add the affiliate link to the "about" page on my blog, but I can't copy the code that Amazon has supplied. If you could explain in Slow Capital Letters what I should do next, I'd be much obliged!!!

]]> bryanvillarin on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-986931 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:00:31 +0000 bryanvillarin 986931@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Howdy phraseandfable,

I just wanted to double–check if you saw my above reply. Does that help? :-)

]]> aikenuu on "third party sites" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/third-party-sites#post-986827 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:18:15 +0000 aikenuu 986827@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I am developing a blog site that I had hoped would also include a page full of "recommended books", each with an affiliate link to the Amazon.com product page. This page would not be the primary purpose of the site, but just a helpful resource for people visiting the site in general.

Will this get me suspended or deleted?

What about a donation Paypal widget?

]]> phraseandfable on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-985591 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:31:13 +0000 phraseandfable 985591@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Timethief: thanks for flagging it for a Staff response. Look forward to what they think. Thanks everyone else for your time and expertise.

]]> bryanvillarin on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-985171 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:57:17 +0000 bryanvillarin 985171@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

Do I therefore fit into the category that IS allowed...?

Hi phraseandfable!

Yes, timethief is spot on. If you're not adding the affiliate links to the sidebar for your book, it should be fine.

]]> raincoaster on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-985164 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:51:47 +0000 raincoaster 985164@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Basically, to sell your OWN book, yes. To sell other books, maybe. That's what you'll have to wait to hear back on.

]]> timethief on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-985154 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:47:57 +0000 timethief 985154@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I flagged this thread for a Staff response.

]]> pcrumm on "third party sites" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/third-party-sites#post-985132 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:35:22 +0000 pcrumm 985132@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hey there,

Users writing their own product reviews may link to Amazon using affiliate links, provided the affiliate links is not the primary content of the post. For instance, a detailed product review with an affiliate link at the end is acceptable; a short, one-liner post with an affiliate links is not.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Best,
P.

]]> phraseandfable on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-985121 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:32:41 +0000 phraseandfable 985121@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks, timethief. But I still don't understand. *techy numbskull* Do I therefore fit into the category that IS allowed...?

]]> timethief on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-985116 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:27:43 +0000 timethief 985116@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm sorry I clicked the wrong button so there are no italics above. Note the bullet point as that's were the italics were meant to begin.

]]> timethief on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-985111 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:25:58 +0000 timethief 985111@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Advertising outside of WordAds at WordPress.com, http://wordads.co/ including affiliate links, is not allowed. For full details, please see:
http://support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
The only exceptions are in italics:

Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes (“Make six figures from home!!”, “20 easy steps to top profits!!”, etc). This includes multi-level marketing (MLM) blogs and pyramid schemes.

  • To be clear, people writing their own original book, movie or game reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category.
    • Here is a thread in the support forums that talks more about which affiliate links are OK or not OK. http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/

    ]]>         phraseandfable on "Published author with 'real' blog: can I link to Amazon as an affiliate?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/published-author-with-real-blog-can-i-link-to-amazon-as-an-affiliate#post-985101 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:21:17 +0000 phraseandfable 985101@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I am a published author on the Amazon affiliate program, trying to link my books from my blog so that readers can buy them. This seems impossible. From what I can understand, I should fall into the 'permissible' category because I have a 'real' blog and I am the creator of the books being sold on Amazon. I am not permitted to sell my books direct so this seems like the best way to go for me. Please advise! Regards, Lucy Courtenay (www.phraseandfable.wordpress.com)
    Blog url: http://phraseandfable.wordpress.com/

    ]]>         saraandfam on "third party sites" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/third-party-sites#post-984827 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:29:41 +0000 saraandfam 984827@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This is probably a dumb question, since the Advertising page does say not to do ads for third-party sites, but I am still not sure I am actually running ads. I am a participant in the Amazon Associates program, which allows me to link to products I like through a specific code. If people buy the items, I would make a small commission. I would be linking to those products on Amazon anyway because I really have found them so helpful -- so I figured it would be nice to get a referral fee for sales from them. Just today, I saw the support docs on WordPress saying we may not advertise. I am fine with that, but I guess I just wanted to be very sure there isn't something I'm missing before I change the code in the links. Thanks!
    Blog url: http://biggerlens.wordpress.com/

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