Affiliate pages need stale-claim maintenance

A note on keeping affiliate recommendations useful by maintaining claims, links, and negative cases.

The underrated cost of affiliate-first monetization is maintenance. A recommendation page can be good on publish day and misleading three months later if pricing, plan limits, commission terms, or product behavior changed. That makes affiliate content different from generic display-ad pages. The page needs a review date, a link check, and a clear boundary for who should not buy the product. Otherwise it becomes a stale sales page with a search ranking attached. For small creators, I would rather see fewer affiliate pages with real update discipline than a large set of thin “best tools” posts.