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Thanks for the feedback, Michael.  I've sent it to our marketing department to review with our affiliate team.  I'm really sorry that this hasn't been a great experience!  We're definitely working to make this process better, so your feedback is much appreciated!

It's a limited solution. It can get visibility fast and possibly drive traffic. It can also (unintentionally) interfere with your site - for example, a product news release could do well and the product page on your site could rank lower. So it also depends what the CTA is and what you want to rank best. Even with good content, you need a way to get it out there to get visibility which is what a service like this can do. Then again, it can also do it for not really great content.

Michael, do you have any further questions or concerns we can help with?

Thanks for all the info. Last question, does having a list of monthly archives on the bottom of my site hurt in terms of dup content? I just have at the bottom the month/year and when you click it, it shows all the posts in that month. Should I be removing this or does it matter?

Michael, the best thing to do for you would be to check Google Webmasters Tools and see what Google sees there as duplicate content. This will help you decide whether you want or not to block /tag/.