As for affiliate link disclosures, you could do a recommendation page if you want. I tend to prefer that over affiliate links littering sidebars. But understand your links will probably get fewer clicks that way because fewer people will see that page. For the disclosures themselves, you just have to make sure the site tells visitors that those links are based on affiliate relationships. Calling them “recommended” isn’t a disclosure on its own. You’re supposed to disclose the fact that you make money when those affiliate links are clicked. Some sites mark each affiliate link individually in some way while others have a sitewide affiliate link policy and just mention at the end of a page that the content may include affiliate links. To the best of my knowledge this is only a requirement if you’re in the U.S. But it’s good practice no matter where you are because it builds more trust with visitors.

What do you term as disclosure of an affiliate link? a recommends web page with an affiliat link on it that redirects once clicked. First time I saw that I immediately thought… wow, how professional! So I imitated it.

Thanks for a great post!
Trish

I’m battling with a recent theme I purchased over this very issue. It was designed to show the month and day, but not the year. For the life of me I can’t figure out why the designer thought that was a good idea. It’s almost more confusing than having no date information at all. Fortunately that blog (still being developed) is related to fiction, so dates are less important for research purposes. But I still hope to find a fix that doesn’t screw up the date area design too badly.