Comments on: Should I Add a Donation Button to My Blog?

By: Curtis

Curtis — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:26:34 +0000

I (literally) just setup a donations button because I want to give sponsors (mostly members of our networking group) the opportunity to help keep the blog up and running. I hesitate to charge because I myself, hate paying for ad spaces. Hopefully donating to http://sustainablecoin.com will make people feel good about essentially funding all of the work that goes into writing posts, sharing tools, and managing our Linkedin group.

However, the jury is still out on this idea so I’ll keep you posted ;).

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cheap louis vuitton — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:17:35 +0000

I guess its needed sometimes..

By: Roxan

Roxan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:25:07 +0000

I have a donate button but it is still an untouched virgin. The money is for a good cause but I think if I had lied and said it was for a boob job it probably would have been hit at least a few times.

By: www.glocalwriters.com

www.glocalwriters.com — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:59:49 +0000

Blogging buttons should be there, but it should be the heart of the content and no where the article’s motive should land up to the donation button…I have seen many bloggers and website owners doing this wrongly…

By: Shahriat Hossain

Shahriat Hossain — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:44:19 +0000

I am also interest to add donate button in my blog which really will help me to do something helpful for the poor old people in my country. So in this case i think its really best practice to add donate button in my blog.

By: Mikes

Mikes — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:15:05 +0000

i have no plans of adding donation box. i think it would shoo my readers away.

By: Webmasterstown

Webmasterstown — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:08:41 +0000

Today I added a donation button on my blog and after couple of hours I received a $15 donation !! Isn’t that good as a first day ?

By: ohmelayu | melayu boleh

ohmelayu | melayu boleh — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:46:05 +0000

nothing wrong with that. I guess its needed sometimes..

By: Mikhail Khusainov

Mikhail Khusainov — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:53:41 +0000

As for me i use donation plugin for my blog.

Actually it’s like a service. The client buys a link from my blog. He pays minimum $0,10, but there is no maximum. My blog shows only top-5 links (who paid more than other).

By: blackzero85

blackzero85 — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:12:33 +0000

Ads are not enough for income. :(

I’m raising this button thing issue on our internal forum. Let’s see the result.

By: Donnette Davis

Donnette Davis — Sat, 16 May 2009 23:38:27 +0000

Hi there, some interesting reading here. When I started my FIRST website back in the day I thought I would add a Paypal button for donations to help with webhosting – not even to make a living. Hmmmpft!!! How many years on I have never received one donation, started taking down the PayPal donatin buttons on the pages as I work on them. Since the site is 30000 pages plus and growing they are still lurking ominously around…

Yes I offer freebies – not just freebies actually, I offer full free curriculum, enough ebooks to fill a virtual library, and enough free teaching material on every conceivable subject for teachers, parents, caregivers for a year.

I bit the bullet and hosted and maintained the site sans assistance. Google Adsense is what I have. Over time slowly have taken down any other form of advertising.

Great idea IF it can work for you, and if it does congratulations. Doesn’t work for me so I have scapped it. I have discovered that if people can get something for free without singing up, joining a membership or anything they’ll take with both hands errr mouse and keyboard, and visit again next time for a look-see and quick download… Because the material was intended to be free I have absolutely no gripes with it at all. It did just open my eyes a lot and steer me in other directions as well.

My sixpence worth… Have a great weekend everyone ☺

By: jones

jones — Sat, 16 May 2009 09:02:43 +0000

I don’t think adding a donation button is a good thing, Ads are cool enough for income. thanks for sharing.

By: Abdul Halim

Abdul Halim — Sat, 16 May 2009 07:09:41 +0000

I personally do not support donation button on the blog. Asking donation means making yourself little to others. Donation is as same as begging. Blogger should not ad donation button on the blog. They should utilize their merit, skill and experiences to earn money from their blog.

As an expert and experienced blogger Darren can lead to establish a blogger’s organization which can help bloggers to purchase product only from bloggers affiliate’s link among the members blogs. Because it is very tough to sell product through affiliate program now. This type of organization can helps and assures bloggers member to earn something from their blog.

If we can do it it will be real implementation of Darren’s 15th day lesson of 31DBBB.

By: Jamie Favreau

Jamie Favreau — Sat, 16 May 2009 05:30:48 +0000

I don’t have a donation button but then I am on a wordpress.com blog and I am not even sure if you can have one. I know they limit you for advertising.

I would like to add it just because I am NOT making any real money now I am just sure if I can add it to my blog. I am willing to be creative. Any tips for me?

By: Nancy McBride

Nancy McBride — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:51:54 +0000

I am a survivor of a recent car and bike collision. I started a non profit organization in December of 2008.

During my recovery time, and having a second chance at life, I raised and gave away over 500 helmets for kids and educated hundreds more in my community. I have been given a second chance at life and refuse to let it pass me by.

I am considering starting a blog to help my organization with donations and spreading the word on helmet and bike safety.

I would like the feed back on current bloggers if they would recommend my starting this journey!

Donations are what change the lives of the children i educate. it helps me make helmet available and bring communities together.

I am searching for and need the feed back of all of you.

regards,

Nancy McBride
HABS org.
Helmet awareness and Bicycle Safety

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:24:26 +0000

don’t mean to be a buzzkill about kottke but let’s not forget he’s married to meg hourihan, cofounder of blogger. this guy doesn’t really need to beg for dollars here.

By: RenaissanceRonin

RenaissanceRonin — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:06:01 +0000

I write a blog that details how to build alternative housing out of recycled materials and shipping containers. We do this, as my wife battles cervical cancer that is currently winning it’s war.

After Hurricane Katrina ate our home (as it did for thousands of others as well) and insurance companies hid behind litigation and stalling tactics, we realized that “we’d just have to figure something out.”

So, we started to write about our road “home.”

As we finally got to the point where we had to decide between budgeting for much needed medicine and diapers, or bandwidth, we put a donation button on our blog.

The response, although hardly capable of providing an income, certainly helps us continue to write and share our knowledge. The response is, albeit, very minimal, but every dollar helps. The fact that “I can’t write” probably contributes to that! :)

But more importantly, it helped us “keep the faith” when we realized that people actually considered taking time out of their day (and opening their wallets), to help us continue to fight our way back to having a home for us and our infant son.

For that reason alone, it was worth it. It gave us hope, something you can’t put a price tag on.

That’s my .02 cents worth (however, in this economy, it’s probably depreciated as you read this…) :)

Ronin

By: Adi Sucipto

Adi Sucipto — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:30:50 +0000

Ha ha, I have to try it again in my site . Although I have tried in several months ago

By: Nash | nil2million.com

Nash | nil2million.com — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:02:16 +0000

I’ve been thinking a lot about the Donation option for my blog.

I somehow feel that if you add Donation box, it makes the blog less professional or less trustworthy.

What do you think?

By: Jonah Lisa

Jonah Lisa — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:22:11 +0000

Another type of blog that I think has big potential to do well with a tip jar is the kind that provides links to other blogs. I write a crafty mommy blog and there are several craft clearing house blogs that pull projects from ovther blogs and post them in one place. The Crafty Crow is like this, One Crafty Place, One Pretty Think, Kiddio.

Because these sites support other bloggers and drive traffic to people who understand the kind of time and effort it takes to maintain a good blog, I think they would do well with donations.

I know I send in donations to Crafty Crow as a thank you because she regularly posts my projects and that drives my numbers up for days and always causes my subscriber numbers to just up to a new level as well.