GettingGrowth is free to read. It mostly pays for itself through affiliate links, so here’s exactly how that works.
What an affiliate link is
Some links to products on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and buy, the company pays me a commission.
You pay the same price you’d pay anyway. Sometimes the link also gets you a discount or a longer trial, and when it does, the post says so.
How to spot them
- They go through a short link on this site that starts with
/go/(for example/go/kit/) and then on to the company’s site. - In the text they’re marked “(an affiliate link)”, or the post says near the top that it contains affiliate links.
- The buttons in product cards are affiliate links when the product has a program.
- Search engines see them as sponsored links.
What a commission doesn’t change
A commission never decides what I recommend or in what order. Companies don’t see a post before it goes up, and they can’t pay for a better spot. If a product I’d recommend has no affiliate program, I still link to it, just without the short link.
Every guide says what it’s based on: my own hands-on use, or the company’s pricing pages and documentation when I haven’t tested something myself yet. How I test has the details.
Sponsored posts, links and free products
Sponsored posts say so at the top. A sponsored link is labelled next to the link, and search engines see it as sponsored. If a company gave me something for free, the post says that too.
Things I built
I build software too, including Straycy, an attribution plugin for WordPress that this site uses for its own sign-up forms. Whenever a post mentions something that’s mine, it says so.
Questions about any of this? Write to me.