Affiliate Disclosure

The Short Version

How Affiliate Links Work

Some product links on this site are Amazon affiliate links. When you click one and buy from the retailer, the retailer may send Swing&Dig a referral commission. That commission does not raise your price, and it does not add a separate charge at checkout.

That revenue is what pays for hosting, research time, and the work of keeping older articles accurate as detector lineups, prices, and firmware change.

How Recommendations Stay Independent

A detector is not worth recommending because it has a link attached to it. It’s worth recommending only if it fits the situation being discussed: a gold prospector needs a different machine than someone hunting old coins at a beach, and a parent buying for a ten-year-old needs something completely different from either.

That’s the standard used on Swing&Dig. A simple entry-level machine may be enough for someone testing the hobby. A pulse induction detector may matter more than a bigger price tag for wet beach sand or heavily mineralized soil. If a machine has a limitation that matters in real use, the article says so plainly instead of calling it the “best” for everyone.

Where These Links May Appear

Product boxes with a direct buy link only appear in the Best Metal Detectors buying guides, where a specific machine is actually being recommended for a specific use case: gold prospecting, beach hunting, beginners, or kids. Elsewhere on the site, in articles about detector technology, technique, or where to legally search, product links show up only inline, mentioned as part of the explanation rather than pushed as a purchase.

The blog carries no product boxes at all. Those posts are field notes and opinions, not buying guides, and they stay that way.

How to Spot These Links

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FTC Compliance

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