Originally Posted by gloreglabert

The problem is that affiliate income has a tendency to make blogs worse (or, in the context of this discussion, 'less useful'). That may not be the rule, but it's certainly a trend among many blogs that when the affiliate income arrives, the useful/good content starts getting pushed to the sidelines to throw in more CC links. I don't think it's a particularly subjective judgement to say that that MV's blog has gone downhill since he picked up affiliate links. There's still good posts in there...but it's gone from 100% quality to something significantly less than that to make room for all the shilling. It's particularly jarring in MV's case because he had one of the most useful blogs beforehand. But it's gone from my go-to example of what a miles & points blog SHOULD be to my go-to example of what's wrong with affiliate links. And that's a shame.