Should I accept offer of Affiliate Link?

Could this affect keyword performance?

[Pengi]

I have been running my general information publishing site for about 3 months. Traffic is largely from AdWords and has grown to about 500 to 1000 visitors a day.
Income to date is from AdSense - it covers the costs, but does not yet provide me with a decent hourly wage!

I've received an invite to sign up as an Affiliate - the Site concerned looks professional and fits well with a few of my pages and target geography. Should I try it out?

If read a few threads that seem to suggest inclusion of affiliate links tends to result in Keyword prices needing to be increased significantly - what's the general view on this?

Thanks for any help.

[trannack]

Perhaps you also need to post this in the Adsense forum to see whether Adsense frowns upon Affiliate links as well Pengi!:)

[QualityNonsense]

Plenty of high quality sites use affiliate links - they're a great way of monetizing a site. I'd only worry if you were running an MFA/thin affiliate site; if you're running an established site with quality content etc, I shouldn't worry.

If you're feeling nervous, simply mask the affiliate links with PHP (see this thread [webmasterworld.com]).