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I have worked extensively with SS on multiple projects and from a designer/user input level it's pretty amazing. It's easy to use, the output is fantastic and to your point, displays very well on mobile. You have to determine what it is you're trying to do as your end-game. If you want to aggregate images/content that links off to clients manually then SS can get that done - it's not overly time consuming and IMHO based off of the fact that you're just learning WP, it'll be the best display output you could ask for.
A big part of this is determining how you plan to set up your affiliate site - - are you a blog, a guide, a comparison tool, etc. because depending on what route you take, you'll see that SS has some limitations. SS does a good job of optimizing their webpages for search, which is a huge benefit if you don't have extensive SEO/SEM/Coding knowledge.
Just my two cents.
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I do some affiliate marketing myself and had the same concerns but my WordPress sites were constantly being hacked so I decided to try SquareSpace and am loving it. As for affiliate links, while I was used to the Pretty Link wordpress plugin, here is my workaround/solution/tutorial.
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It'll work. No plugins though. I use it for my personal blog and have since squarespace 5, but I've never tried it for any of my affiliate attempts. It adapts wonderfully for mobile as long as you haven't added a bunch of custom injection code.
If you pay for personal for a year you're looking at like 96$ a year per site plus domain. Personally, I love squarespace for personal use.
Edit: the only thing that I hate is, starting with squarespace 7 they handle images in a blah way where hotlinking is concerned. For example:
Go to my images page, then click Atari which is http://www.ryanmercer.com/atari/
Now click on say the stack of floppy drives, and you get http://www.ryanmercer.com/atari/2015/9/14/21o97152th46e7sa4offhlfntqte1u
Right click and copy image url, http://static1.squarespace.com/static/547254e6e4b00008d79a3ef1/55f6ab40e4b0b65087bf3c34/55f6be4de4b03f54d2703de9/1442233940800/?format=500w
So now if someone hotlinks to an image on your site it's actually going to be pointing back to squarespace's CDN. Annoys me. They claim it's so images load even faster, which they do BUT I regularly post photos to forums and stuff and liked the image link back to my site, now it just links to squarespaces CDN grumble most forums and similar sites also try and tell you the link is an invalid image link because... no image file extension which means I then usually have to either uplaod it to imgr or something or just toss in something like floppy drive stack mage here. Won't be much of an issue for an affiliate blog I imagine but it's the one (and only) thing about squarespace 7 that chaps my ass.
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