I’ve scrupulously kept my other sites free of affiliate links, Google Adsense, banners, and other forms of advertising, for a variety of reasons. I’ve decided, for this site, to play around with that. I’ve gotten interested in marcom writing recently and that led to an interest in marketing in general. Not a strong interest, granted, but I think I’ll play around with things here a bit.
Not sure about the context Amazon ads widget — I only have a couple of posts here so I can’t tell how bad the links will be. For what little I’ve seen, I doubt I’ll be keeping them. If they were at all targetted to a technical writing audience, I wouldn’t mind so much but we’ll see whether I keep those as time goes on. But the Amazon ads aren’t too bad — one little box in the sidebar and a bigger box (both showing “technical writing” related results) on the main library page. And of course text links on each book page, since the graphics on those come from Amazon.ca. I’ll probably add another ad or two — always relevant to technical writers. Frankly, I’m finding the Amazon ads dangerous to me personally — makes me want to go on a shopping spree. 
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Removed the context ads widget. While it would occasionally get the link in the ball park of the context, most of the time it linked to something completely unrelated. So it’s gone.
I tried Amazon affiliates before, both contextual and widget. Added lots of “junk” to my blog with very little results. I’ve since removed all Amazon ads and am sticking with Google Adsense for now.
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