Affiliate disclosure

Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you buy something after clicking one, this site may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.

That sentence is on every review, and it is legally required. What follows is the part that is not required, which is how the arrangement is structured so that it does not affect what you read.

What is monetised

Affiliate links appear in the price box on review pages, on comparison pages, and on the pick at the top of each ranked list. They are marked rel="sponsored nofollow" and open in a new tab.

The site is network-agnostic by design — the affiliate layer is a table of programmes rather than a hard-coded integration with any one of them. At the time of writing the programmes configured are listed in the price box on each review, named specifically rather than as “our partners”.

Nothing else on the site is monetised. There is no sponsored content, no paid placement, no paid review, and no arrangement under which a brand can pay to appear.

What a commission cannot do

Three things, and they are structural rather than promises:

It cannot change a score. Scores are six criteria with published weights, entered before any affiliate link exists for that product. The link is attached afterwards.

It cannot change an order. Every ranked list is computed at build time by a formula over those scores. There is no manual position field in the data model — not an unused one, not a discouraged one. Moving a board up a list would require changing its score, which would change it on every other page simultaneously, including its own review.

It cannot remove a bad review. The lowest-scoring board here scores 4.2. One board was returned to the retailer after nine days and its review is still published, still linked from the comparison pages, and still carries an affiliate link that will almost never be clicked. Taking it down would make the site more profitable and less useful.

What a commission does do

It makes buying the next board possible. Every keyboard reviewed here was bought at retail, which means the testing budget is limited by what the site earns. More commission means more boards tested; it does not mean better scores for the ones that pay more.

Rates differ between programmes — direct brand programmes typically pay several times what a large marketplace does. This is worth stating plainly because it is the obvious pressure point, and the answer is the structural one above: the score exists before the link, and the ordering is a function of the score.

Review units

None have been accepted. If that ever changes, the review will say so at the top, in the same place, every time, and the board will be identified as supplied rather than bought in the byline as well as in the text.

Prices

Prices are checked by hand and carry the date they were checked. Past 45 days they are flagged as stale on the page rather than silently left looking current. Nothing here scrapes live prices, because a scraper that breaks quietly produces confident, wrong numbers — worse than an honest old one.

Advertising

If display advertising is added later, it will be disclosed here, and ad placement will not be allowed to reorder or reformat editorial content.

Questions

If anything here looks inconsistent with what you see on a page, that is worth reporting — see contact. Corrections are recorded in the revision timeline on the affected review rather than quietly edited in.