Definition
Affiliate disclosure
An affiliate disclosure is the required statement that you may earn commission from links you share. Regulators (like the FTC in the US) and most platforms require it to be clear and placed before or near the links.
Disclosure intersects with link health at the platform-policy layer: undisclosed affiliate links get content suppressed or removed on several platforms, which kills the links' traffic as thoroughly as a dead program would. Compliance is part of keeping links "working" in the practical sense.
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