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Hey guys. Welcome to our mini podcast episode where we answer your questions on our Flip Lifestyle

Facebook page. If you would like to ask us a question, just head on over to Facebook.com slash

FlipLifestyle on Sunday nights at 8 o'clock

Eastern and we will consider your question to answer here on the podcast. Today's question is from

Dara and she is asking, she says I'm trying to figure out a classy way to put ads and

affiliate links on my website. I'm concerned that it might be unexpected for folks to see ads or affiliates on the site. I don't want to turn people off. And I think this is a really common concern that people have, and it's a concern that I have had in the past. So thank you so much for this question. All right. I think there's a couple ways to do this, and this is kind of like what we do to make sure that we don't, you know, turn people off from our affiliate links or

ads. What we do is we basically try to always relate any ads or affiliate links to the content

that we're talking about. So, you know, if I was reviewing podcast equipment because we have a podcast

and maybe I was talking about a microphone that we use or something like that, maybe I'm doing a review for that.

Well, my affiliate link on that page would be related to my content.

It would only be for the microphone that I use.

I wouldn't just randomly put, you know, affiliate links all over the page just to try to get clicks.

So we don't really do a lot of sidebar advertising or header

advertising. We don't just put up banner ads because there's a lot of ad blindness on the internet.

People are used to seeing ads in those places. We try to incorporate all of the affiliate links

kind of into our content. That way it's kind of related and it makes sense for the affiliate link to be there.

Another thing is we don't really use Google ads. We've used Google ads and ad systems in the

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