Do You Splog or Blog? – Affiliate Marketers with Wordpress Beware
If you have just begun to create an affiliate marketing a business on the web of the easiest was to do it is to get a blog on WordPress. com. It’s free, it’s easy and you can be up and running in minutes. But an affiliate marketing blog on WordPress. com can be turned off before you can say why. Why? because of WordPress definitions of a spam blog, which is often overlooked. How do you Splog or Blog? Are you a splogger or a blogger? A blog that works with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs fall into the WordPress category “Splog.” WordPress defines an affiliate marketing blog that a man will ban. WordPress version: Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs. To be clear examples of people writing original book or movie reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do not belong to this category. We are only talking about blogs that are primarily designed to promote different affiliate programs. If this is your blogging strategy, get your own your own domain and hosting company and get WordPress installed. By doing so you avoid the risk of getting your site removed. Nick on the WordPress Support told me to WordPress. com Terms of Service does not own hosted version of WordPress that you download at Wordpress. org. The software is free for you to use as you wish without any restrictions or requirements regarding splogging or blog in any way. Good news for us on our own sites. Useful information for you if you are just ready to build a blog and use it for affiliate marketing information and sales. In the case of affiliate marketers who are already established on a WordPress. com hosted blog site, surely you have questions about moving to a new site that would change all your URLs and lose PageRank and traffic routes you have with your links. I suggest you write to people at Wordpress and ask them what you can do to meet its user agreement to prevent the outlawed as splogger. Do it now. It gives you peace of mind and if you are in danger, you can begin to restructure your site to comply with what WordPress will require for you to keep your blog.
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