CONVERSATION REGARDING AFFILIATE LINKS
The Hullabaloo About Affiliate Marketing on Medium
Is there a difference between using affiliate links in short-form pieces versus long-form pieces?
I started the Hullabaloo. Have you ever read a piece the includes an item and wondered where you could purchase the item? I have.
Take a look at Jennifer Dunne’s Fabulous Fountain Pens. I love fountain pens so went searching. I recommended Jennifer start doing affiliate links. She didn’t, but others have recently started using them in their short-form stories.
Readers complained.
The Daily Cuppa editors want to help writers achieve success. However, our first concern is for our readers. It’s easy to see why: if there are no readers…
Exactly.
In designing The Daily Cuppa publication, I relied on input from member and non-member readers. My team of non-member readers was the richest source of information because most of our views, at that time, were from external search engines.
As one of the first short-form publications, we were writing knowing we would not make any money. A story might earn 13 cents. We were not writing to get rich. A lot of us liked that.