I decided to add a disclosure page to this blog.
I assumed that as I seldom link to the only affiliate product I have and the blog’s sponsor is clearly referred to as such, there was little point.
I then saw something that made me reconsider, very quickly!
I was prompted to write that brief page, after reading several disclosure pages on some popular blogs; which had so many caveats that just about anything they wrote could be some kind of paid endorsement. It was extremely illuminating and I suggest that you check out any disclosure pages on the blogs you read.
My affiliate partner and sponsor
I am an independent blogger, with no cross marketing agreements with anyone. If I say I think a particular blog or product or service is great, it’s because I believe it. For example, I was openly recommending my hosting provider, WebFusion, before they started sponsoring the blog. Five months after going onto one of their dedicated servers, I am still on 100% up time! It’s easy to recommend something like that, knowing how many people are stuck on unreliable hosting. I wasted a long time on deadbeat hosts before finding them. BTW: I get paid nothing if you click their banner, it’s just a link to their site.
With my one and only affiliate, it was a very similar story. I had been recommending Headway (the WordPress theme this blog’s built on), to people for 6 months, before I decided to become an affiliate.
Even if you have little to disclose, I think it’s a very good idea to put it up there so people can see.
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