Hey Alex,
Good points.
However, I’m not naive enough to believe that I can restrict competition by not linking to it – and if someone is interested in affiliating then I’d rather that they learnt the good, bad and ugly from CAP, GPWA and APCW.
I wish that I’d known about them from 1999-2006 when I had to re-invent everything I was doing myself.
(and if I sent new affiliates there then hopefully they’ll introduce themselves on the forum later – and we might do deals in future. Win-win.)
:wink-wink
And as you mentioned, sites belonging to these groups are more likely to be upfront in their dealing – although not always (as we’ve found).
I’m not saying I put the logo’s in prime advertising space (above the fold), but I have plenty of ads on my site (understatement) and yet I can still find a front page spot to link to these quality sites.
:tongue:
So for me the weigh-up is much simplier :
Positive : They’re good sites that I use.
Negative : Nothing.
Not EVERYTHING is about the money.