This morning I tried to clean up the 90 still broken links on Canadian Personal Finance. During this attempt, I ended up having an interesting epiphany. In my early days I took pictures from all over the web. I did this to help push forward my points. I did not realize that many times sites move pictures or turn off access to them. This morning I found a post I had written about pay day loans places. It was called Pay Day Loans: No, No, No!!. In it, I had a picture of a great white shark. This showed what I thought of the pay day loan industry. They are all blood thirsty sharks, worse than loan sharks.
My Broken Links plug in told me that this picture had disappeared. I was looking around for a new picture of a shark when it dawned on me. A very nice picture that shows what Pay Day Loan places are like is on the cover of Peter Benchley’s novel Jaws. I decided to replace the picture with an Amazon Associates picture ad for the novel Jaws. If someone buys the novel, I make money! I also get across the point about how I loath the Pay Day Loan industry (even though the advertise on my web site as well!).
Think I’ll do that a few more times now, see if I can get some love from Amazon.
Interesting, but the big problem is that you’d probably make more money in a finance affiliate link than an Amazon one!
Very true, but instead having a blank square with no picture this isn’t a bad fix for now. What financial affiliates could I add?
–C8j
Brilliant! Always looking for interesting visuals to add to posts. Never thought of using book/movie/mousepads whatever. Less worry about the picture going offline or image permission problems. I had one image that has given me so grief so I replaced it with an amazon image/link and problem solved.