We love talking about WordPress and reviewing hosting sites. However, our bank wouldn’t accept our offer of free WordPress tutorials to pay our mortgage. Thus, any links to products and brands on FastestWP.Website may contain affiliate marketing links in which we get paid a commission when you purchase from that site. Here are the details of how we manage that and how it affects you.
How it affects you
First, it doesn’t affect the price you pay to that brand. Whether you shop through our links or without our links, the price you pay is the same. Sometimes, you can save using coupon codes the brand being reviewed has provided us so our readers can save. There may be other discount codes that provide greater savings, while others may provide less savings. It is ultimately up to you – and only you – to determine if the purchase is worth completing. We are not responsible for your shopping actions and habits.
Affiliate marketing does affect you in that our site and third-party sites use cookies to track whether you have used our affiliate links to purchase something. This allows us to obtain commission for your purchase, so we consider these cookies vital to our blog and business. Please do not use our site if you do not wish to be tracked. Of course, we want everyone to be happy. However, ultimately, we have to run a business in a capitalist economy.
Finally, it does not affect the content you read on this website. A lot of what we write about is from our personal use and research of the products. We buy the hosting products and test them in real life without being sponsored to ensure our reviews are unbiased. There may be times in which a brand offers us a free product to review and write about. If that is the case, we will disclose that at the top of the blog post for full transparency. However, all of the thoughts, feelings, comments, and writings of the blog post are ours and ours alone. We will point out the positives and negatives so you can make a fully informed decision to the best of our and your ability.
How it affects us
Affiliate marketing affects us primarily because this is our chief source of income from this website. We want to be rewarded for our efforts, and there are real costs in running this website. Affiliate marketing is a way to pay for the expenses of hosting this website, pay us for our efforts in creating and maintaining the content, and keep the website free for everyone to access and learn from. We believe that affiliate marketing is an ideal tradeoff between allowing us to make money while still delivering you the most benefit with as few drawbacks as possible.
It also affects us because we may choose to write about products, brands, or topics that provide affiliate marketing income over those that do not. While this is not necessarily directing what we write on the website, we may choose to prioritize brands that offer higher affiliate commissions – or affiliate commissions at all – over those that do not.
Affiliate Marketing Programs We Are a Part of
Below, you’ll find a list of affiliate marketing programs we are a part of. This list may not be entirely exhaustive as programs do change every so often. However, this will allow you to see what those programs are and their Privacy Policy.
- Rocket.net: https://rocket.net/privacy-policy/
- ShareASale: https://www.awin.com/us/privacy
- Commission Junction: https://www.conversantmedia.com/legal/privacy
- WPX: https://wpx.net/page/privacy-policy/
- Impact.com: https://impact.com/security-and-privacy/
Please note that when you click a link from our website that goes onto someone else’s website – such as a brand’s website to look at a product – we are no longer responsible for the privacy policy of that other website. We strongly encourage you to read that external website’s Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and Terms of Use.
Conclusion
We are thrilled that you are reading our WordPress blog, and we hope that you can take away some nuggets of information. We also would love for you to come back and continue reading. But we also would appreciate that you use our affiliate links when purchasing something you want. It helps support us and the website!
If you have any questions or concerns about our Affiliate Marketing Policy, please let us know. Thank you so much for stopping by!