Originally Posted by
Raffles
Simple. If you had an Amazon and ebay link, you would put them in your sidebar and perhaps quietly plug them once a month.
You would not, if writing a post on British Airways, find a convoluted route to add in 20 links to books on BA on Amazon and 20 pieces of BA ebay memorabilia, because that would be stupid. You would stick with the sidebar link.
Swap 'Amazon and ebay' for 'credit cards' and you can see how to retain your credibility!
Why would you do that, rather than include links in the text? I posted once about 10 travel accessories for your Tablet, such as certain adapters that weren't so obvious and basic stuff like cover, keyboard etc to make it into a usable data entry device.
Why would I share info about a cool accessory, then not link to it - if the reader learns about the product through my effort, then goes off to google it then how is the site being sustained?
I put affiliate links for everything, if someone wanted to click through and buy what I said then the could, if they didn't then they didn't click, or they could deliberately not click and google instead.