You may find within this Article, and definitely within this Blog, "
Links". A Link is an object, that when clicked on, will take you to something else. Links can take you to another Website, another Page within a Site, a Software Download, a PDF Download, an MP3 Download and many other places.
"
Actual Links" can be in the form of: Text, Banners, Pictures, Advertisements and many other items such as Videos and an Entire Page.
To be "
Open and Transparent", Stoneysblog.com will contain many, many Links. Some Links will go straight to the source without compensation, other Links will be placed for some type of compensation to the owners of stoneysblog.com.
All Links to other Websites, Blogs or Products, are called
ENDORSEMENTS. When we say that something is good and post a "
Link" to it, we are in fact endorsing that item. We may be compensated for that endorsement because it is "
Advertising" for that Product or Service.
Compensation may be in the form of money from a few cents to a few dollars. It may be in the form of Credit given, Points, Discounts for us and in many other forms. It doesn't matter if we post good comments or bad ones, as long as we have a "
Clickable Link", the compensation rules remain the same.
WE WILL NOT BE COMPENSATED FOR ALL LINKS THAT LEAD TO OTHER PAGES, BLOGS. SOME INCLUSIONS OF LINKS ARE LIKE ADVERTISING FOR SOME COMPANIES PRODUCTS OR SERVICES. AGAIN, WITH SOME OF THE LINKS THAT ARE FOR ENDORSEMENTS OR ADVERTISING, WE WILL BE COMPENSATED , AND FOR SOME ENDORSEMENTS OR ADVERTISING, WE WILL NOT BE COMPENSATED FOR.
ONE EXAMPLE OF AN "
ADVERTISED LINK" IS OF THE BANNER AD ABOVE AND ALSO, THE ONE BELOW.
IF YOU CLICKED ON EITHER ONE OF THEM, THE TYPE AND AMOUNT OF OUR COMPENSATION FROM THAT ADVERTISER WOULD BE BASED ENTIRELY UPON OUR AGREEMENT AND THE ACTIONS THAT YOU CHOOSE.
AGAIN, OTHER LINKS OR ADVERTISEMENTS ARE JUST THAT. SUCH AS THE LINKS TO "
TARGET,
BEST BUY OR
HOME DEPOT". WE WILL NOT BE COMPENSATED FOR ANY ACTIONS YOU CHOOSE TO TAKE WITH THOSE COMPANIES WHEN USING OUR LINKS TO GET THERE.