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Adriaan van Rossum
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If influencers provide extra value for the platform I would do it. They "pay" with that value instead of currency. Actually I don't care if I pay and they don't. They provide this value probably for the whole group, so I would get them on without paying. Not sure if not paying has effect on their commitment (proabbly not).
It's super common to do. The internet became this place where people just write a story around there affiliate links. It's annoying.
I would be honest about it and say something like Wirecutter does: "Wirecutter is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more". It's a quite prominent line.
In that case you should use it in the URL, right?
Yeah I'm not sure haha this is btw an example of a profile page on my site currently sayhi.dog/profiel/tjeerd-korse. But now I'm working on a multi-language version so I'm doing some research now :)
I think language is user specific, not URL specific. I would just guess the language + have a dropdown + store a cookie with the value.
Thanks for your reply. I already thought about that but google does not recommend that support.google.com/webmasters…. And SEO is very important for my site.
In that case you should use it in the URL, right?
Yeah I'm not sure haha this is btw an example of a profile page on my site currently sayhi.dog/profiel/tjeerd-korse. But now I'm working on a multi-language version so I'm doing some research now :)
I like this thinking. Makes perfect sense.
There are other people who have a way longer streak. Plus I cheated ;-)
Yes, cookie free forever. That is for the scripts on peoples website. To login on SA you need a cookie of course.
The more I think about it the more sense this makes. I feel like I need to grow in features that help website owner with whatever problems they encounter. So why limit it to analytics?
@marc I think we shouldn't be too hard for companies that offer products for free. disclaimer: I offer Simple Analytics for COVID-19 projects for free in return for a backlink. As long as you're not planning to earn money from those customers and don't ask for payment information.
That's also why I added "Does it drive you into a paid account" to saasforcovid.com. Just to make it clear for customers how companies act. If companies offer something for free, I think it's great. No judgement.
I like that "Does it drive you into a paid account" filter. 👍
I really don't feel to judge anybody's business. I simply ignore it, because I see mostly promotions, which has no relation with COVID-19, it's just another "get something free that you start using my service" and then use COVID-19 as an opener. It's something different, if eg a Restaurant make a promotion with free delivery during COVID-19, as this has some relation to COVID-19. But if COVID-19 is just used to make people opening the Email or get attraction I think it's misusing a really bad situation.
BUT.. repeating. It's not that bad that I want to judge it. I just trash it in my inboxes, as it's much to much used.
BTW. For sure a really good idea that you add this "Does it drive into paid account"....