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Affiliates
- Thread starter Olivia
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This forum is ad-free and I consider affiliate buttons in the footer as an advertisement. So if I put affiliate buttons then I couldn’t really say the forum is ad-free anymore, now could I? 
If we did have ads then I suppose I could put affiliate buttons too, what’s another couple ads going to hurt if there’s already ads here in the first place?
I personally like the clean minimal look, that’s why I don’t have the “extended footer” enabled even though it’s included with most of the themes we have installed.
We do have a promotion directory forum though, members can post an ad thread there and they can also advertise in their signature (both are more effective than affiliate buttons in my opinion).
If we did have ads then I suppose I could put affiliate buttons too, what’s another couple ads going to hurt if there’s already ads here in the first place?
I personally like the clean minimal look, that’s why I don’t have the “extended footer” enabled even though it’s included with most of the themes we have installed.
We do have a promotion directory forum though, members can post an ad thread there and they can also advertise in their signature (both are more effective than affiliate buttons in my opinion).
I have got them on my forum because everyone else does it
But it is incredibly difficult to know what a forum is about just looking at a button that's 88x31px.
Thats why you need to have an attractive one so people will want to click on it. Then maybe a little guest message at the top of the forum to tell people what its about when they do click it.
So is mine. Its not very visually appealing but then again there isn't much you can do with such a small space.I've got the welcome message
But most of the time affiliate buttons are just text.
