Affiliate disclosure

No affiliate links are live on VodClipsLab, and the site has not joined any affiliate program, so it has earned no commission from anyone.

What this page will say once links go live

VodClipsLab plans to earn commission through affiliate programs run by some of the tools it covers. When a program approves the site, this page will be updated to name that program, and the date will be recorded in the corrections and update log. Until then, this page names no program and states no commission rate.

A commission would work like this: you follow a link on this site to a tool, you buy a paid plan, and the vendor may pay the site a share. The price you pay is set by the vendor, not by us.

How affiliate links will be marked

These rules describe how links are planned to work. None is live yet.

Tagged in the HTML. Affiliate links will carry rel="sponsored nofollow", which tells search engines the link is commercial.
Routed through our own redirects. Links will point to a /go/ address on this site, which then forwards to the vendor. Each click on a /go/ link will be logged, so the site can reconcile its clicks against what a program reports. The privacy policy describes what is logged.
Disclosed on the page. Commercial pages will carry a plain disclosure near the top, before the first link. Pages that cover a tool without a link will say so.
Not hidden in a list of links. The disclosure will sit in the body text, not only in a footer or a block of links.

What the FTC pages say

The FTC’s endorsement guidance is where this approach comes from, and it is worth stating how far it goes. The FTC’s endorsement guides Q&A says affiliate sellers should disclose the relationship clearly and conspicuously on their site, and gives sample wording along the lines of “I get commissions for purchases made through links in this post”. It says a bare “Affiliate link” label may not be enough, and that “Paid link” next to a link should be an adequate disclosure. It also says that the closer a disclosure sits to the recommendation, the better.

Those are examples from the FTC’s guidance, not a script the FTC requires word for word, and they are not legal advice. The wording on this site follows that plain-language approach.

The FTC’s questions and answers on the Consumer Reviews and Testimonials Rule cover a different point: the rule, in effect since 21 October 2024, bars fake or false reviews and certain undisclosed insider reviews. We read it as a reason not to publish invented results, quotes or ratings, and this site publishes none.

What affiliate income does not change

Commission will not change a verdict, a ranking or the order of tools on a page. Specifically:

No payment for coverage. No vendor can preview, approve or pay for a review. See the contact and vendor policy.
Tools without a program are covered the same way. A tool that offers no commission gets the same scrutiny as one that does.
Downsides stay in. A tool does not lose its limits and drawbacks because it has a link.
Rules for evidence are fixed first. The methodology sets how claims are sourced and what the labels mean, and it applies to every page whether or not a link is attached.

Paid ads and coupon pages

Paid advertising on the site is not planned, and neither are coupon or discount-code pages. If either changes, this page will say so before it happens.

Questions

If you think a page’s disclosure is unclear, send a note through the contact page. Disclosure changes are recorded in the corrections and update log.