I think that Amazon's affiliate program is perhaps the most benign, non-intrusive form of advertising on the internet.
If the blog post is a poorly-written list of links to books, then it probably isn't content that you're interested in, whether if it has affiliate links or not. I do not see why the presence of affiliate links makes the content any worse (or any better), though I suppose it may make people more inclined to slap up some poorly-written lists of links to books, so there's more low-quality websites to wade through on the internet.
But then again, there's already lots of low-quality websites on the internet. I hardly think there's any stopping that problem now, and I'd much rather see ads for Amazon, a place I actually shop at, than for some shady Nifty Larry's Bargain Basement or whatever.
> If the blog post is a poorly-written list of links to books, then it probably isn't content that you're interested in, whether if it has affiliate links or not. I do not see why the presence of affiliate links makes the content any worse (or any better), though I suppose it may make people more inclined to slap up some poorly-written lists of links to books, so there's more low-quality websites to wade through on the internet.
Yes I agree, this is pretty much exactly what I said above.
My point was that there are so many of these posts written just to attempt to get affiliate commissions that whenever I go to a link that has a top 10 books it already has 2 strikes against it due to previous experience.
If the blog post is a poorly-written list of links to books, then it probably isn't content that you're interested in, whether if it has affiliate links or not. I do not see why the presence of affiliate links makes the content any worse (or any better), though I suppose it may make people more inclined to slap up some poorly-written lists of links to books, so there's more low-quality websites to wade through on the internet.
But then again, there's already lots of low-quality websites on the internet. I hardly think there's any stopping that problem now, and I'd much rather see ads for Amazon, a place I actually shop at, than for some shady Nifty Larry's Bargain Basement or whatever.