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Notes onaffiliate links.
Writing on broken links, creator income, and the occasional product update from the lab.
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Pinterest affiliate links: the complete guide.
Pinterest is one of the few large platforms that openly allows direct affiliate links. Pins also live for years, which means rotting links cost you longer here than anywhere else. A complete guide to affiliate links on Pinterest: rules, formats, and how to stop them dying silently.
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YouTube description affiliate links: the complete guide.
YouTube descriptions are where most video affiliate links live. And also where they quietly rot for months. A complete guide to affiliate links on YouTube: platform rules, best practices, and keeping them working after upload.
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Instagram affiliate links: the complete guide.
Instagram was built to keep users in-app. Most places you'd put a link, you can't. Here's where affiliate links actually work on Instagram. Bio, Stories, Shop. And how to survive the platform's link-phobic design.
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Newsletter affiliate links: Substack, Beehiiv, ConvertKit compared.
Newsletters are uniquely unforgiving for affiliate links. Once an issue is sent, you can't edit it. Any broken link is locked in forever. Here's what works across Substack, Beehiiv, ConvertKit, and how to keep old issues earning.
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TikTok affiliate links: what actually works.
TikTok is aggressively link-hostile by design. Three paths to affiliate monetization. Bio link, TikTok Shop, brand deals. Each with different rules and different failure modes.
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