{"id":565,"date":"2016-06-17T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/2016\/06\/17\/fyi-books-of-the-week-and-affiliating\/"},"modified":"2016-06-17T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T23:23:00","slug":"fyi-books-of-the-week-and-affiliating-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/2016\/06\/17\/fyi-books-of-the-week-and-affiliating-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FYI: Books of the Week and Affiliating"},"content":{"rendered":"
I was doing some thinking about a few podcasts and YouTube channels I follow. Many of them recommend a “Book of the Week.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen that on a blogging-style web site. Sure, there are sites dedicated to recommending books, but I figure it’d be great on mine – after all, I initially began this site hoping to write not only about my authorly development and progress but also to share the books I love.<\/div>\n
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From now on (but starting next week), I intend to write up books of the week. They may not be long, but they’ll be popping up. These will be books I’ve read and enjoyed.<\/div>\n
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Along with that, I’ve been thinking about monetizing this site for quite a long time, but who monetizes a site they barely even post to? Having temporarily entered a habit of posting every day, I figured now makes more sense than ever (besides, I’ve had silly ads for a while now and earned a whole 6 cents).<\/div>\n
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From now on, I’m “a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.”<\/div>\n
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In other words, if I put any Amazon<\/a>\" links on my site and you make a purchase through them, I might make a penny or two. It’s not much, and don’t buy stuff you don’t need\/want in order to give me a few cents – that would be silly.<\/p>\n

Yes, that means if you follow a link from one of my “Books of the Week” and you make a purchase, I’ll make money which I intend to put back into my site one way or another.<\/p>\n

For now, I’m figuring the affiliate program out. Don’t worry, I promise not to swamp you out with ads.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was doing some thinking about a few podcasts and YouTube channels I follow. Many of them recommend a “Book of the Week.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen that on a blogging-style web site. Sure, there are sites dedicated to recommending books, but I figure it’d be great on mine – after all, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-30-days-30-posts","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"category-update-on-life","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}