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….