Comments on: Cash for Comment Blogging

By: çiçekçi

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By: Flowers

Flowers — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 16:23:52 +0000

I think that the idea was brilliant. It was a good way to move up in the search engine rankings.

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Sat, 02 Jul 2005 14:32:35 +0000

[...] ticed others who have commented on this topic. Darren at ProBlogger in May talked about it here and Duncan referred to it more recently here and wi [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 19 May 2005 20:19:28 +0000

Everyone is a sell out point blank its just how much are you willing to sell out for? Pual what did youo sell the vault for? It depends on what your blogging about weather its flowers, or books one thing is for certain you selling out, you just don't know it, just like the google ads on this site! Many people especially sports stars, are selling out in one form or another. Prime example look at photo matt he sold out and did it by cloaking his links, hiding them with a text indent, as far as I can tell, usweb hasn't done that. I think it was and experiment for them because I dont see the post anywere on craigs list, and for all we now this could be one big made up story.

By: Emergence Marketing

Emergence Marketing — Tue, 17 May 2005 20:26:01 +0000

Blogging for dollars

Guerrilla News Network reports that USWeb is paying people to leave favorable comments about certain companies on their blogs (here – via problogger). Reminds me of those shops that would post for dollars in online user groups and Usenet newsgroups…

By: Danger Stevens

Danger Stevens — Tue, 17 May 2005 17:10:36 +0000

Considering Technorati tracks 10 million blogs it’ll take some effort to establish yourself above the masses. It seems to me that the best way to do that is through transparency, consistency, and providing good content. This offer from usweb is probably more fitting for folks who don’t need to develop a personal connection with their readership or who don’t have many consistent readers.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 17 May 2005 16:49:38 +0000

We should make sure we differentiate between advertising and actually being paid specifically to review a product and required to give it a positive rating.

I have no qualms with blogs or my blog for that matter to have advertising, what is a problem though is to be paid to give a positive review to a product I might not like.

Independence matters so much in the blogosphere.

By: David

David — Tue, 17 May 2005 16:25:53 +0000

I run three websites where I blog about various things, and have never been paid a penny for any of them. I’d love to get paid any amount for my effors in the blogging world. My interest in Computers, Technology, and Web Development and Design is so common on the Internet that I don’t think I have the creativity or the sources (its all in WHO you know) to get paid for blogging.

I have applied at Weblogs Inc, but who knows if that would work out. If I was able to have sponsored posts on my site for some revenue, I probably would not turn it down as long as I was able to be upfront with my visitors letting them know I joined such a program, and could still write my other content as much as I like.

By: Marketing Loop Blog

Marketing Loop Blog — Tue, 17 May 2005 15:38:02 +0000

Blogging on Your Own Blog and Get Paid?

J. Ryan from Guerilla News Network posted an article titled Blogging for Dollars. He explains in the article how he notice people are seeking for bloggers who write a short post/ review and get paid in return, US$5 for every post.

While searching the …

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 17 May 2005 13:16:33 +0000

Good stuff here. I agree that this would be selling out. The key word here is “positive”. I can’t for the life of me be paid for a positive review, if someone wants to pay me for a review, that’s one thing.

But that’s the point of blogging, to get away from the STRICTLY controlled media machine. It’s like the adverts in magazines that purport to look like editorial content, last thing I need on a blog is that.

Good for those who won’t do this. Blogs are here for that very reason to speak our minds and only our minds.

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Tue, 17 May 2005 12:55:35 +0000

That’s just not right at all. And doing it for $5 is almost pointless. If you do go with it hopefully you use a full disclosure and at least try out the service.

By: Darren Collins

Darren Collins — Tue, 17 May 2005 12:31:33 +0000

It’d be interesting to search for backlinks to Dot Flowers and ‘out’ all those sellout bloggers!

By: Shai

Shai — Tue, 17 May 2005 07:38:02 +0000

Thanks for that, Darren. ‘Glad to read what you’ve got to say on this matter. We (or at least I do :)) come here to find out your personal thoughts on pro-blogging issues such as this. I don’t think you’d be clouding anyone’s views, if you share your thoughts. Well, if it did, then, maybe they (or that person) didn’t have that much of an opinion on the matter in the first place. What you’ve shared just now is good, because I think it will help your readers come up with their own views as well – whether they agree with you or not. So again, thanks.

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 17 May 2005 06:49:26 +0000

I didn’t post an opinion upon it partly because I was running out the door when I posted this but also partly because I was interested in others opinions and didnt want to cloud them with my own.

My personal opinion is this:

I’m not against the idea of ’sponsored posts’ – if someone wants me to honestly write about their product and will pay me to do so then I’m willing to such an approach.

However – if they want me to pay me to write a positive review for the money – a review where they give me a list of keywords to mention in my links and suggestions on how to phrase my positive comments – then I’m not interested at all.

I would also insist that if I’m being paid for a blog post that I declare that up front with a disclosure statement (something that I don’t see happening in this case).

So my view in this case is pretty low and I wouldn’t get in on it. In addition to being a sell out it wouldn’t do my blog’s (or my own) reputation any good at all be be a part of it.

By: James Farmer

James Farmer — Tue, 17 May 2005 06:24:22 +0000

Yeh, there was an example of a company paying some pretty well known edu/techbloggers quite a bit to write about them over a period of a few months a bit back… http://tinyurl.com/4j5qw They were offering good amounts to very well known bloggers (who mostly took them up)

$5 is just for you to write some drivel on a random blogger blog… sounds like a good way to make a nice bit of cash if you’ve got the typing / banality skills :o)

By: nortypig

nortypig — Tue, 17 May 2005 06:05:59 +0000

The moment they pay a blogger to say something nice about them then that blogger’s credibility hits the nearest ditch. Why would anyone visit a blog that is prostituting itself – that’s just a paid advertisement.

There was talk of this a while ago but that instance didn’t matter if you said good or bad things which was sensible. Its better to be talked about than not talked about, after all.

And five bucks is pretty pitiful to sell your soul for, I could add.

By: Shai Coggins

Shai Coggins — Tue, 17 May 2005 06:04:36 +0000

As someone who tries to earn money from blogging, of course, I’ll be interested in possible different revenue sources. However, I do believe in Disclosure Statements. So, say I do post an affiliate or advertised post in one of my consumer-related blogs (not all my blogs are consumer-related/commercial, so such paid-per-post-blog won’t apply) – I would like to put a disclosure statement that I was hired to review such and such site and product per post — or a general text/logo showing such affiliations.

I’m curious, though, why *you* didn’t mention your own views on this…

By: Tim Yang

Tim Yang — Tue, 17 May 2005 05:57:43 +0000

I like this idea that they give bloggers a choice of subjects to blog on. But I think they ought to pay on a different scale instead of a flat fee. Maybe pay by scale of traffic or page rank? Otherwise it wouldn’t attract the arguably more valuable high-profile bloggers. And there’s the issue of transparency. Perhaps the terms should include a banner on the blogger’s site that says “I’m part of a USWeb.com’s Bloggers-for-Dollars” (hey that rhymes!). That wouldn’t be a bad idea at all since it might attract even more bloggers to usweb.com.