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| Wordpress Beware | | | | Wordpress installed on it. By doing so you avoid the |
| | | | risk of having your website removed. Nick at |
| If you are just getting started creating an affiliate | | | | Wordpress Support told me that the Terms of |
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| affiliate marketing blog on can be shut down before | | | | with no restrictions or requirements regarding |
| you can say why. Why? because of the Wordpress | | | | splogging or blogging in any way. Good news for |
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| So, do you splog or blog? Are you a splogger or a | | | | for you if you are just getting ready to build a blog |
| blogger? | | | | and use it for affiliate marketing information and |
| A blog that is operating with the primary purpose of | | | | sales. |
| driving traffic to affiliate programs fall into the | | | | As for affiliate marketers already established on a |
| Wordpress category of "splog." Wordpress defines | | | | host blog site, certainly you have concerns about |
| an affiliate marketing blog as one it will ban. | | | | moving to a new website as that would entail |
| Wordpress states: | | | | changing all of your URLs and losing the pagerank and |
| Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary | | | | traffic avenues you have established with your links. I |
| purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs. To be | | | | suggest you write to the folks at Wordpress and |
| clear, examples like people writing original book or | | | | ask them what you can do to comply with their |
| movie reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people | | | | terms of service to avoid being banned as a splogger. |
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| this category. We're only talking about blogs that are | | | | are at threat you can begin restructuring your site to |
| primarily designed to promote different affiliate | | | | comply with what Wordpress will require of you to |
| programs. | | | | be able to keep your blog. |
| If this is your blogging strategy, get thy self your | | | | |