I recently picked up the rights to a program which I renamed to Affiliate Knot. What this WordPress plugin does is write cookies (with your affiliate links to various products) to visitor’s computers when they come to your website. It will write these cookies for any affiliate link you desire and is transparent to the user.

Use of the program has a number of “cons”:

  1. it’s a bit “Black Hat” in that the reader is unaware of it,
  2. does it provide benefit to you or does it just slow the website,
  3. is it fair to the visitor to possibly usurp an affiliate link from someone whom the reader would like to support?

On the positive side, however, there are some solid reasons to use it:

  1. every browser has the ability to block cookies or tell the reader when a cookie is being written,
  2. large businesses and websites of every size write cookies to visitor’s machines on a routine basis so it is a routine practice,
  3. chances are that you have done some marketing to bring these visitors to your site – why should you not get the benefit of their affiliate purchases.

I’d like to know your opinion on this so please comment below. What I will do is on the 14th of March, I’ll draw a random commentator and send them a free license for this $27 WodPress plugin.