Are affiliate links not allowed to be used in hubpage content?

From the HubPages FAQ:

My hub was flagged as overly promotional, what does that mean?

Purely promotional offers and Hubs designed only to promote other sites or businesses are not allowed. In particular, the following actions are likely to get your hubs flagged:

    * linking repeatedly to the same site within a hub or across many hubs
    * including links to a page that contains largely the same content as your hub
    * linking to products or services unrelated to a Hub's content
    * including more than 2 links to any one domain
    * short "teasers" with links to "read more" at another site
    * including promotional links on content that is unoriginal (i.e. not exclusive to HubPages); promotional links can only be included on content that is exclusive to HubPages

Please note that promotional links are links that you have any interest in promoting (your blog, your Website, affiliate offers, etc.). Links to well-known Web resources which you don't have any personal interest in (like Wikipedia, news sites, encyclopedias, open directories, etc.) are exempt from this limitation.

Ok so I'll take that as a Yes (as long as content is original to hubpages and links are not overdone to one particular site) and indeed I have read this in the FAQ before.  I just heard varying things here & there lately and wanted to clarify. Thanks

P.S.  I believe that it is also true that if you use linkcloakers like 'tinyurl', it will appear as if you're linking to the same site recommendation repetitively - when actually it could be totally different sites.

Yes, Multimastery, there is an absolute limit of two links to any one domain (not page, DOMAIN) after which you will be penalised.

Any form of cloaking will treated as a "wildcard", and be assumed to be cloaking yet another link to that same domain, ie a tinyurl link counts as +1 link to all other domains linked on the page.

It really is best to avoid them unless you plan on having two and two only links on the entire page.

And remember, it must be completely original text if you are linking out.

Jenny