After playing the game of the delicious bait, for more than one year, by sharing two referral links at the bottom of my posts, today I am finally removing them both. They were referring to one of the biggest and most popular crypto exchanges and to one of the most popular bitcoin faucets.
Sharing those links gave me zero (0) referral, lol. The reasons could be many but I am not going to analyze them now. I have a list of them in my head so if anyone is interested at all, we could start a nice and probably fruitful discussion.
There were only two-three interactions so far. One from a guy who was providing his negative feedback of that particular exchange (not related at all to the theme of the post) and a couple of automatic comments by a bot, picking up the name of the crypto-exchange. I definitely do not want nor need that. :)
So, as of today, instead of providing free advertisement to these two services, I am putting links to two other portfolios, and these are the three main places where my works could be seen and licensed, and I certainly can say that these three sites are were I publish new stuff regularly.
So, I suppose you have figured out the short answer, for myself, of course, to the question in the title and it is "No".
I would love to find out what your personal experience is, with regards to those referral links, shared on public networks.
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I understand why you would remove them my friend it must work for you and your audience, promoting referral links is more complicated than just posting a couple of links.
Many people train for years in marketing to be successful at promoting referral links.
Wishing you much success in everytthing you do
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Thanks, Ben, true! I am far away from good marketing :))) Time is precious, I'd rather focus my remaining energy into something I love to do... photography, travel, music, literature, cooking, the list is long but no marketing on it, for good or bad :D
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Swapping the referral links for ones to your own work is the best choice I think! You do amazing work! Show it off! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
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Ya, I was never a fan of referral links in posts. I don’t really want to scroll past a bunch of ads at the bottom of people’s posts. I hate seeing posts people make that are really short and their list of referral links are like 4 times the length of the post.
I guess my perception of those goes in circles. Sometimes they irritate me a lot; other times, though, I find interesting and useful stuff. Quite a few times I signed up for new stuff via the ref links of people who I respect.
I can totally put myself in the shoes of people who use lots of ref links (or donation links) in their posts. These are hard times we're living in and all possible support we have helps us get through them.
Hopefully things get better for all of us. The world sucks right now.
Absolutely!
I think people are more interested in reading your post.
Then that thing added at the bottom is neglected. 😅 Just like I did as always on reading posts here.
I hope that's true but I feel lately not many spend any time reading at all.
This may surprise you but sometimes I go and check out those links, info and other stuff at the bottom. If I respect that blogger and they decided to publish them, it means that matters to them, right? ;)
Thank you and
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So it depends on the individual, what their interest and attention.
Yeah, of course, it matters.
I know that ecency rewards in points which can be used to boost post for every referral. Don't really know about others but better to check a carefully should incase there's an hidden rewarsa
True, Ecency rewards points for activity and using their frontends. I think you're speaking of another type of referral, when someone signs up to HIVE via a link provided by another registered user. I have no experience with that.
I'm glad you removed them if they weren't working. Seems putting on your new links will maybe provide you with more exposure. I think that generally people on Hive are quite weary of links.
Yup, cleaning up the dead wood a bit :) I should've ended this experiment earlier, I guess.
I am not sure the new links, to my portfolios with my visuals for licensing would make any better, unfortunately too many people think that everything that is found online is free to use. Still, I hope for better days, there was a positive tendency that started in the middle of 2022.
Thank you :)
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It's always good to do a sweep out every now and again. You know the saying "you won't know until you try" 🙂 Let's keep that positivity alive! Wishing you all the best! 😃
Thanks, have a great weekend! :)
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Honestly I've never found referral links particularly useful, unless I'm writing specifically about them I a post. Other than that they tend to be ignored. I think it's a great idea to link to your own work instead! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙