Click-through fees

[ianr]

Is it actually possible to arrange to collect commission from links that one's planted in a public forum like this? If so, how would you set about it? I'm thinking of the posts from faruk1, where the slightly unusual thing is the variety of external links he inserts, and that I've not seen any obvious mention of associate/affiliate schemes on the ones that I have looked at.

I think he's looking for global coverage ( https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=faruk1+%22+I+am+a+new+member+from+Bangladesh%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 ) though he seems to have an enduring fondness for EDF. I hope it's been rewarding for him.

[Loz]

You can pick up affiliate fees from links, but none of faruk's link seem to have the necessary info to do that. I suspect he's just advertising sites that he has a stake in.

[El Pibe]

or taking a wage for attemptnig to up clients' seo ranking, which could backfire nastily.

[????]

he made me laugh comes in, 'engages' for a week or so and then suddenly links galore