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Originally Posted by West
I think another reason SBI! insists that you wait before monetizing is because if you start too early, you may become slightly obsessed with how much money you're making, and lose sight of building more content.
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Good point West.
To answer your question, Jewel, I don't think putting the affiliate links up is necessarily driving people away. Ken wrote an article once that says the average person only views 10-20% of your site (unless you have a very niche site and your traffic is extremely targeted) so don't get too alarmed by the Analytics stats. I have to admit, 2create has 140+ pages but the average person only looks at 3 pages... yet the site is extremely successful (affiliate revenue wise) because I have a lot of traffic.
Now, that doesn't mean you shouldn't work on your content to try to improve your bounce rates and page views per visitors, but don't get too bent out of shape about those numbers.
But back to your original question.... Go ahead and put up the affiliate links. No sense in putting up plain links and then going back to switching them... especially since a lot of people still don't know what an affiliate link looks like (especially on sites not related to Webmasters).