Hey everyone!
Last week I wrote an AskSteemit post asking what your thoughts were on referral links added to your posts as a footer/banners. The general view on most users was that as long as it sticks to your own posts and its not directing readers to shady/scammy sites it should be okay. Many of these sites offer bonuses and advantages to both the referrer and the person getting referred.
Some might see it as ads but I believe its not something we can stop from happening either way in the long run. The one thing we have to be careful about is the reputation of the author and what he is linking to. As most of you know I'm not the one to ask for followers/votes and try to profit off of his readers so I decided to create some banners with referral links under them to sites and services I trust and use myself. As I also daily catch up on news I will make sure to remove some if anything were to happen, but the ones I started out with have proven to run legitimately for longer periods of time.
I started with these three, Localbitcoins which has been running for many years allowing users to trade bitcoin locally, Genesismining which is one of the few legitimate and longlasting cloudmining websites and Binance which is a rather new trading platform but regulated under Chinese laws.
Thank you to @howtostartablog for commissioning these awesome banners!
Feel free to let me know your thoughts about this decision in the comments! :)
Edit: spacing fixed.
seems a good banner!
I've seen banners on some users sites for a while now, and while I agree with you that they will probably grow in use, I'm not a fan of the external sites' banners.
These I'm ok with because they are custom and don't look so much like an advert.
It's a bit like posting deposit addresses, they are there but the reader chooses to deposit/click or not.
Yeah it was a bit of an ethical decision and I thought that having custom ones would be a lot better than the original ones that look like ads.
and yeah.. the coin addresses just listed on users posts look so bad it makes me not want to vote on the content often, lol. They could at least put them in links.
Yeah Re: coin addresses, does anyone actually send crypto to those?!
They look good and personally I have no problem with people using Steemit to get referrals, I hope you get some success!
I am all in favour of them but they seem to be frowned upon by elitists on Steemit. As long as they are markerd as Advertisement I don't see the harm.
I’ve always wanted a banner thinking it attracts more people and makes your page look even better !! How did you create these ?
Ask someone who would like to help out with it. ^^
You can go to @justcallmemyth's old posts from June and July I think. He has made a bunch of free banners and graphics for anyone to use. He hasnt been on much....but said he is coming back....so he would maybe make one for you. Maybe offer 1 or 2 sbd??
I think it looks good but I may be biased
If you have a bad case of biaseditis you should get that checked by a doctor! XD
:D
Without the spacing I did it with photoshop but for me it looks better with the spacing.
Not bad but I feel they should be lighter colored. The best part would be that their transparency matches both the light and dark theme of steemit.
And please! We want a customizable footer that we can save in our profile!! I know you have contacts to make this happen :p
ugly art of mine
Hi @acidyo i do photo editing work, if you need help let me know i will help you with your banner. thank you
Nice iteration I think these are balanced and look nice as a little trio. Well done!
They look good. It would be nice if there was a footer preset for these as then I would use one more often.
Are there spaces between the links you use?
Found the spacing thing.
Yeah, I'm probably going to forget to add them often much like I did with the footer logo in the beginning. :P
thanks
Its looks awesome. Perfect creativity. No need to remove space..
Alright, thanks for your input. :)
You are welcome sir..
Spacing fixed now.
Wow..now marvelous post end..
It looks Ok. Not too intrusive and the images themselves look good. Good call.
Thanks, they will be placed under the footer in the future!
The gif is so cool! Did you made it yourself?
upvoted ^_^ have a great day @acidyo
good banners
@acidyou I am so grateful that I am FIRST to comment on your new Banners. They look Marvelous !!!
Wow, you are right, the idea is excellent, the banners look very original and the most important thing is that it is convenient for everyone. Thank you @acidyo
It would be nice if there was a footer preset for these as
Well, Steemit is a business afterall... It's not that shocking that we're all trying to make money here ^^
Nice
do you sell these?
Oh my god! is that made by you ? it is just awesome work bro .fantastic keepit up.
@howtostartablog made them. :)
Made it for you ???
Yes.
@acidyo hi my name is Josediccus, and my contribution is this,
Truth is this development are inevitable,a time will come when Ads will be introduced to steemit. The referal stuff will aid more bussiness venture and expand the community reach globally.
The blockchain will surely go through evolutionization, it has started already, at one time in the future, posting will not be the only way to earn,im certain of this,
thank you for posting
That would be awesome work @acidyo. Who it made by? do you? Probably it seem some advertising part..Lol.
nice post.
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Absolutely brilliant your new banners who is creating @howtostartablog. Appreciated work he was done better. Keep the banner more advantage for reputation.
They look good. It would be nice if there was a footer preset for these.
Thanks for sharing, enjoy the vote!
its really nice banners, thanks for share,
Great @acidyo
I like them...any idea if an UPVOTE banner is acceptable...if so we can we get one?
Thanks for information
Interesting
I like the banner. Mew! Go Pokemon!
It looks more professional using the banners this way @acidyo perhaps to get people used to 'live links' make mention about the link taking them to a site you like, know and trust. That it purely a suggestion and folks must do their own research.
Always thinking back to the various things we have had to add onto blogging sites with affiliate links.
Your all gif is really good....you make it @acidyo
I have started adding banners to my page for the groups I'm associated with as well- I didn't think to make some of them affiliates though! I think it would be great for you to do a post explaining what they are and why you're involved with them/what the benefits of them are. I don't know very much about crypto, so I think it would be both informative and probably get you more clicks if people knew what they were clicking on.
The new banner looks great it's going to take a little time to get used to it but it does look amazing
I think it is perfectly acceptable to use referral links, or affiliate codes, as long as site does not endanger the user. Linking people to phishing sites, or other shady ones is entirely different than a content creator trying to make money on the content he or she creates.
They shouldn't mislead the user however.
But regardless of individual people's opinions, certain individuals will downvote based on their own personal feelings, and some of them will even use a bot to enforce their own personal feelings on the site as well.
Localbitcoins.com is very reputable site and is the standard for a btc exchange.
Genesis-mining is okay but no liquidity on what you had paid for. You can't get back your money until you ROI.
I think we should use binance
Beautfiful footers BTW
awesome post @acidyo