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The affiliate site playbook

Compliant affiliate links that earn: disclosure, rel="sponsored", placement and tracking.

What you’ll learn

This guide is for affiliate site operators and bloggers who earn commission from their recommendations, or want to, whether you run one site or a small portfolio. We cover the whole chain from the reader's point of view: the pages that earn, a disclosure that meets the rules, links tagged the way Google asks, placement that helps rather than nags, and tracking that shows which articles actually pay. By the end you will be able to audit any affiliate article on your site, fix it in an afternoon, and know which old posts deserve your time next.

Which affiliate pages earn, and what Google's reviews guidance asks of them
How to write and place a disclosure that meets the FTC and UK rules
How to tag paid links with rel="sponsored" and keep your links healthy
Where links earn without nagging, and how many belong in one article
How to track which article earned the commission, and revive old reviews

What’s inside

7 chapters, 22 pages. Each chapter ends with a checklist.

01What makes an affiliate site earn
02Disclose properly
03rel="sponsored" and link hygiene
04Placement that earns without spamming
05Track clicks and earnings
06Revive old posts and scale to a portfolio
07Your 30-day plan

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What format is it?: A 22-page PDF, designed to read on screen or print. It has a contents page, worked examples and checklists you can tick off as you go.
Will you email me anything else?: We'll send you a few short follow-ups on getting more from your content. Every one has a one-click unsubscribe, and unsubscribing stops them for good.
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