Affiliate links on Shutter-Project.org to take up a collection

Mh, personally I don't like advertising / affiliate links. Do you have experience with placing such links and how many visitors really use them (a simple click is not enough - they have to sign up after following the link)?

It depends on the number of visitors and their interests. How many unique visitors do you have daily?

I am not talking about advertising, I would just create a page where I would list related affiliate programs, simply just links and/or banners. So I wouldn't place ads all over the place on the website, just on a single page. So it is absolutely not annoying. I would just ask people to use the affiliate links to buy stuff, so they support the project.

IMO affiliate links are even better than asking for donations, because people don't have to pay extra money to support the project, they would buy the desired stuff anyway.

For example, I recently bought a one-year hosting plan, but I realized that a local Wordpress community website had affiliate link for this hosting company, so I used their link to sign up. They earned about $70. It is much harder to persuade someone to donate $70, but it is very easy to ask people, if they would buy something anyway, to use the provided link.

The project misses money if don't use this method. Little commissions add up over the months and years, they are better than nothing.

Ok, sounds not too bad. I think we should try that.
Vadim, what do you think? Any experiences with such affiliate links?

Thanks for your idea, Charybdis.

No experience, but after reading his explanation it looks like a fine try.
Not sure what page to use offhand though.

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Ok, sounds not too bad. I think we should try that.
Vadim, what do you think? Any experiences with such affiliate links?

Thanks for your idea, Charybdis.

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