{"id":1615,"date":"2010-05-24T16:57:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T21:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2010-05-26T10:01:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T15:01:30","slug":"drivethrurpg-affiliate-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/drivethrurpg-affiliate-links\/","title":{"rendered":"DriveThruRPG affiliate links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpglibrary.org\/utils\/drivethrurpg\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; border: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px 4px;\" title=\"DriveThruRPG\" src=\"http:\/\/rpg.drivethrustuff.com\/themes\/dtrpg\/images\/logo-115px.png\" alt=\"DriveThruRPG\" \/><\/a>I had a little bit of free time today, so I whipped up a couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpglibrary.org\/utils\/drivethrurpg\/\">dynamic affiliate links<\/a> for DriveThruRPG, a very cool source of gaming PDFs.<\/p>\n<p>The script can be called one of three ways. One way creates an affiliate link to one of the five newest items added to DriveThruRPG, the second creates an affiliate link to one of the five best-selling items, and the third creates a random link to an item on either list. I considered animating the affiliate links, so that a different item would appear every few seconds, but to be frank, animated advertisements annoy me. Actually, I do not care for advertisements at all &#8212; I hide them, as a matter of fact. <\/p>\n<p>Does this make me a hypocrite? Maybe. However, these are not just advertisements &#8212; they are also news. For that reason, I think they are useful, even to people like me who routinely hide ads.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my intention to add these to this blog and to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpglibrary.org\/\">RPG Library<\/a>, the gaming community site I maintain, but I do not really expect to see much revenue from these. I mainly created them as a service to the gaming community. 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