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But what does being an affiliate mean?

Monday, February 25th, 2008

This is one area where blogging and fan sites clash. To a blog, an affiliate implies a commercial relationship. Generally speaking, a blogger will put up affiliate links for pay. These can be either paid links from another blog looking for traffic, advertising from commercial companies, or similar types of commercialization. To ...

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Links Through Commenting

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

If you've been poking around promotion websites, you've probably seen the recommendation that you should leave comments in order to build links. I'd like to expand a little on this idea. First off, if you're leaving comments on a blog, chances are that they are using the "nofollow" attribute. This means ...

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