Publication standards

Affiliate disclosure

How outbound links, public program claims, accepted agreements, and editorial decisions are kept separate.

Current status

No affiliate account, property approval, or independently evidenced official destination is represented as active in this build. Outbound product buttons remain unavailable unless every route-specific gate is satisfied.

Activation gate

A compensated link requires account approval, current accepted terms, recorded economics, exact publication and page eligibility, permitted geography and traffic source, known reversals and payouts, a recently audited destination, and no compliance hold.

Link qualification

Compensated outbound links use rel="sponsored nofollow". Official research links use nofollow where appropriate. Link qualification does not affect our evidence or ranking logic.

Restricted programs

Some programs prohibit explicit affiliate media or impose property-specific rules. Those routes remain disabled until written compatibility is recorded.