On Oct 1, 11:37 pm, "Mike Schilling" <mscottschill...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
nebulou...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sep 30, 7:58 pm, Arne VajhHj <a...@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
"And you'd probably get a percentage, too"
Any evidence to back that accusation up with ?
Simple -- the ad used an Amazon link, and those are well known to
pay kickbacks for referrals.
Kickbacks to other web pages, perhaps. I've never heard of
kickbacks to Usenet posts. Do you have a cite for that?
If someone sets up an account with Amazon for referral fees and then
uses a properly coded URL *anywhere*, and that generates clickthroughs
and especially sales, they get referral fees. It is usually, but does
not *have* to be, a Web page. And obviously it can be indirect: put
Amazon link on Web page; aggressively promote Web page elsewhere in
turn. Amazon links are nearly as common as AdSense blocks on blogs
whose URLs are heavily spammed; I wonder why? I've seen one or two
that were nothing *but* Amazon links. Now here we have a usenet post
pushing people to a Web page with very little on it but a book ad with
a single link ... an Amazon link.
Of course it *proves* nothing. It may indeed turn out that there's no
direct financial benefit to the usenet poster in question after all.
Even so, all of my *other* points stand,
Yeah, but they were all stupid.