LorDi
Where in the World is Deerwood Drive?
http://www.loridipatri.blogspot.com

I was reading a blog a few hours ago, on which the blog owner / author actually apologized for running ads and trying to make money from her blog! I could tell it was a blog this young lady was putting a lot of time into — it was very useful, interesting, well written, and had that special something many blogs don’t. Yet the blog author was apologizing for making money from the blog. I was stunned!

After she apologized she went on to explain why she was monetizing. It was because she “needed to.” She needed the money bc she had been off work bc of cancer treatment. She went on to explain that she wasn’t being selfish, but only wanted to make some money so she could buy a laptop to write her blog and do other important things.

Again, I was stunned. Why the need to apologize, then expose the personal details of her life? And finally — why the need to give an explanation of where the money was to be used, as if there were something wrong for wanting to earn money — for any reason, for that matter?

Finally, before her statement ended on the matter, she even stated, almost apologetically, that the ads would remain, but that we didn’t have to click on them if we didn’t want to! It was our choice.

I think one of the problems is the way wealth, the wealthy, entrepreneurship, capitalism, free enterprise, etc.is viewed today. In America it’s getting more and more popular to apologize if you want to make money. Money is necessary to live, and you can’t even give it away to help others, if you don’t earn it yourself. Money isn’t something evil, something to be looked down upon, as we’re beginning to be taught by a lot of people in America… It’s what you do with it that counts… Do you use it to help yourself and others to live life well? Then stop apologizing!

krissy :)
http://www.twitter.com/iamkrissy

I recently introduced a paid membership aspect to my blog and all hell broke loose. While most of my readers where supportive and absolutely respected my right to monetise something that is fast becoming the way I make my living, there were a number of commenters (none of whom were regulars) that were vehement in their disgust. How dare I even consider it they cried! Who did I think I was! Wasn’t it bad enough that the site already ran ads?? Was I greedy? Didn’t I understand the concept of free internet for everyone??

Hell’s bells it was awful… and I almost fell into the trap of apologising for wanting to make a living….

So I’m making number seven my mantra. Thank you.

Mike and Peggy Linton
http://www.mikelinton.com
http://www.talktopeggy.com

Thank you for your tip about problogger. I immediately subscribed.

Once we gained the page rank, the limit of paid posts is almost impossible and earning more than $300 each week just from paid posts. But, it will all go back to zero as soon as google penalty the site with page rank 0.

So, personally I think all bloggers network like payperpost, sponsoredreview, etc need to allow their bloggers to do nofollow post for paid posts because if they get paid for doing the paid post with dofollow backlink to the advertiser, this is exactly against pagerank policy.

Another important note is that all blogger that want to monetize their site, need to study well on page rank TOS, when to use dofollow and when to use nofollow. The awareness of this three issues is very important to continuously make money from doing paid posts and enjoy the benefits of earning more than $300/week without losing page rank.

Also, we need to create this awareness to the advertisers who should know the buying and selling page rank juices is illegal.

THANKS!