Marcia - 7:26 am on Mar 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

>designed like a regular website storefront, but the purchase links go to the affiliate's site

Exactly ggrot, the legitimate ones that will stay out of trouble are regular web sites, and with some of the good ones you'd never know they were affiliate based without looking at the code or clicking a link. With some they actually do make mention, although with how nicely they're done it does not detract.

There are some out there that are done with some mighty dodgy looking practices, especially with the way they're interlinked, which is good enough reason to be original and not emulate what's found at search engines indiscriminately. Big_Brother may have his eye on them for "research" purposes, and they may just be there on borrowed time.

A related question is whether it's best to go with well focused mini-sites for individual products or product lines, or do bigger sites with multiple related products that fit into a general theme.

(edited by: Marcia at 7:54 am (utc) on Mar. 1, 2002)