Comments on: Snooty ‘Tudes

By: Terri healthy mom

Terri healthy mom — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:16:18 +0000

What’s wrong with earning money, it takes time to blog and make the content interesting to readers so why not get paid for your time?

By: ModernMommy

ModernMommy — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:56:31 +0000

For the sake of good discussion I wanted to respond to your question. I hate commercials. Now that we have a DVR we always fast forward through the commercials. If there is a product that I am geniuenly interested in then I might stop and watch it. The same goes for blog reviews. If the product catches my eye as something I might be interested in then I might actually continue reading. But this only happens maybe 1% of the time. Most of the time I just glance at the site, can tell it that all the posts are paid reviews and move on.
Again, just my personal experience. And like I said 1% of the time it might actually get my attention.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:29:18 +0000

Hi ModernMommy. Oh, no worries, I’m not offended. :D Thanks for your comment.

But if you’ll allow me to be contrary: I think that if you are purposely avoiding reviews because they are paid reviews, that’s a pretty gullible frame of thinking. Please allow me to explain: for one, are you able to determine what review is being paid for and what is not? And did you realize that MOST reviews, everywhere, ARE paid reviews, including those from the TV, the radio, the newspapers, the magazines, etc?

The point of my article here is to point out the discrepancy, that snobby attitude that somehow paid reviews are acceptable in those other media venues, but not for blogging. I think it’s hypocritical to believe this, especially when a person runs a GOOD blog. It’s like, the whole blog is slammed because there are paid posts on it.

By: ModernMommy

ModernMommy — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:42:21 +0000

I am going to be very honest here and I hope it is not offensive to you. For me personally when I click on a site (usually through Entrecard) and I see that they are reviewing something because they get paid for it I do not read any further. This is just my personal experience I have no problem with people doing PPP I just personally don’t care for the sites where that is all they write about.
I have google and amazon ads on my site but I only link to amazon if it is something I was going to write about anyway. However, I haven’t made any money off my blog yet so I can’t say that I will never try PPP myself. :-)

By: Madz

Madz — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:01:52 +0000

Hi Rebecca, I salute you for having been able to bluntly expressed the reality in blogging world! I like you for being that… I do agree with you 100%… we are not in the position to say that paid blogs are not good, while you can actually learn fresh topics every now & then! I must admit, most of the sponsored posts in my blog are new to me, so I am earning 2 things here, EDUCATION & MONEY… so what’s wrong with that hey Bas!!!

I have both Adsense & Sponsored posts on this blog of mine, and I do get occasional featured offers from advertisers because of this rank I got which is 3, only after 4 months of blogging, there I started writing sponsored posts! But donnu until when Google is going to keep it… but it doesn’t really matter, I earned more money from advertisers than Google anyway, so why worry…

Entrecard helps a lot of obtaining traffic unto your blog, so nothing wrong with that, who doesn’t need traffic???

Keep it up girl, I like you though….

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:09:54 +0000

Excellent, Excellent post!

I couldn’t agree more with what you have written.

Keep up the great work!

Adam.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:35:43 +0000

I couldn’t agree more Rebecca. Great post and very well said. I also have stayed away from Adsense for many reasons. The main reason is it could take a very long time to actually make anything with it. I make more money in a month with selling ad space and it’s usually a very small link that took less than a minute to put up. The paid posts are usually pretty easy to spot so if they really bug you as a reader, then scroll past them. I actually enjoy reading them.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:04:02 +0000

I like Kim Komando, I like her a lot. I’ve been a fan of her radio show for years, and I get her daily emails. I recommend her, especially if you are new to computers and other electronic stuff, because she is very knowledgeable and her show is funny and informational. But she is only one of so many who judges paid posting like it’s leprous or something. Ridiculous.

By: ImitationAngel

ImitationAngel — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:02:44 +0000

You go girl! I for one am tired of hearing all the people bash others because they have paid posts on their blogs. You get a standing ovation from me. I have not heard of this woman before but I know I will be avoiding her now because of it.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:34:23 +0000

You have taken the words right out of my mouth, except that you said them much more eloquently than I ever could have. A toast to you!

By the way, I sell my own product as well as sponsored posts on my blog so I guess some would consider it to be horrible!

As for Entrecard, I believe that the majority of serious EC users utilize the service and spend the time dropping cards in order to increase traffic in order to get better paid opportunities. Personally, I would NEVER invest so much time in EC if it didn’t lead to me earning more money through my paid posts, my time is more valuable than that. If Bas is a drop & run EC blogger, than leaving EC is a good choice for him. Sounds like he doesn’t read the blogs he’s dropping on anyway.