Referral Links in Your Articles?

I suspect AC would reject it, at least. I had one article rejected because it contained a link to Amazon.com, for the Kindle. They said it was 'too commercial'. This is bearing in mind I was spending the whole article saying it was a piece of overpriced garbage and pointing out cheaper alternatives, mind... Took the link out and resubmitted it, and got an upfront payment for it. So I suspect they'd reject it out of hand before it ever got to the publishing stage.

I just asked this question over on the AC forum earlier today, and someone confirmed to me that it was against the site's policies. Which is what I thought the answer was. I think that both of us were looking for the answer to this question because of someone who was saying that you should be doing so. I was told on AC that if I run across such an article (one that contains referral links) to report it to the site's management. On Helium, it is a big no-no; and it will get your articles flagged for violation of the rules. Enough violations and they will close your account on Helium. I suspect that most other sites have the same rule in play. By the way, I suspect that the person who was saying that we should be using referral links in our articles on AC, etc. has been banned. Or at least, his reply to one of my discussions has been removed. On AC, they do allow you to have links embedded in your articles to other articles that you have done on AC. They don't mind the links as long as they keep you on the site there.