Read your Affiliate Agreements! A Cautionary Tale

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How to Kill an Affiliate Partnership with Just One Facebook Link
By Rosalind Gardner
May 11, 2015

After going back and forth with the hotel manager ? who refused to honor the Hotels.com pricing ? I booked online through Hotels.com.

After the runaround, I thought I?d let my Facebook friends know about the tack I?d taken to save over $100.

Being a good affiliate marketer, I grabbed my Hotels.com affiliate link from CJ

, then went to Bit.ly to have it shortened.

Right after posting, I returned to the CJ site noticed the following Hotels.com affiliate marketing restrictions posted very clearly just below the ?Get Code? area:

Restrictions:

• Affiliates are not allowed to promote Hotels.com via Twitter, Facebook or Facebook Advertising without written approval.

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