> The operative phrase in the original comment was “without mentioning”.
As a reader you wouldn't be weirded out if the first section of the article was to justify why an affiliate link was used?
That would annoy me as a reader a lot more than having an affiliate link used without mention. I mean, I'm not sitting there trying to trick people into clicking links. The blog post is just an honest look / opinion on the keyboard. If you decide to click and buy one, that's cool. If you close the article in 5 seconds after skimming around, that's cool too.
This is just routine disclosure and it might be legally required. There's been a lot of noise about it in recent years as a lot of blogs, reviewers and influencers started getting paid to pitch products without disclosure.
> You've established the article is just about the Amazon Basics keyboard; just refer to it as the keyboard for the rest of the story.
> Way too clickbaity/SEO method of writing it.
I did that because I talk about other keyboards through out the article and when people skim it gets hard to track what "their" or "the" really means (especially if they are clicking links).
If you do a search for "the keyboard" you'll see I use that phrase 9 times and "their keyboard" twice. When combined together that's more often than I use "Amazon Basics keyboard", so I'm not just spamming phrases for SEO. If anything doing that will de-value your page rank for keyword stuffing.
I mentioned the keyboard by name the least amount of times to keep the article skimmable and making it clear that when you click a link, it's leading to that keyboard. In other words, it's a UI feature not a bug!
As a reader you wouldn't be weirded out if the first section of the article was to justify why an affiliate link was used?
That would annoy me as a reader a lot more than having an affiliate link used without mention. I mean, I'm not sitting there trying to trick people into clicking links. The blog post is just an honest look / opinion on the keyboard. If you decide to click and buy one, that's cool. If you close the article in 5 seconds after skimming around, that's cool too.