{"id":804,"date":"2015-08-10T17:21:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T17:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=804"},"modified":"2015-08-10T17:34:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T17:34:41","slug":"content-ads-affiliate-links-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"Content, Ads, Affiliate Links, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banner ads were pulled from this site when we moved to the new domain. I&#8217;ve long felt that they busy the site and we&#8217;ve decided to drop that type of advertising from our site in an attempt to give the blog a cleaner look.<\/p>\n<p>I do have an affiliate relationship with the following sites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Ancestry.com<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>GenealogyBank.com<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Fold3.com<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Amazon.com<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s as far as the advertising will go on this blog. I have memberships to the first three sites myself and while I do get frustrated with certain aspects of them, they do have value, particularly for their indexes and remote access to records. The only links I create to\u00a0<em>Amazon.com<\/em> are for books that I have purchased myself or that I use myself (one can&#8217;t buy everything). I don&#8217;t mention books that I don&#8217;t use or have.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago I agreed to present an hour long presentation on how to use a software program. I bought the program (which I won&#8217;t name), spent some time using it so that I was familiar with\u00a0it, could answer questions about it, etc. I gave the presentation because I agreed to, but the more I used the program to get up to speed on it, the more I realized that I would never use it for its intended purpose and decided that after the presentation I was going to uninstall it. I never agreed to give a presentation on any software with which I was not already familiar.<\/p>\n<p>I also decided that I just was not comfortable speaking or writing about something that I would not use or purchase myself.<\/p>\n<p>Also bear in mind that I only write about my own research. If a book covers a topic in which I have no interest, it won&#8217;t be mentioned on here even though it may be a perfectly fine book. I don&#8217;t write about topics that I&#8217;ve not really worked on either.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading and your support of this blog. It is appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banner ads were pulled from this site when we moved to the new domain. I&#8217;ve long felt that they busy the site and we&#8217;ve decided to drop that type of advertising from our site in an attempt to give the blog a cleaner look. I do have an affiliate relationship with the following sites: Ancestry.com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}