Is It Really That Bad Writing Paid Posts?

Posted on October 9th, 2007 by Cedric

Many bloggers are writing paid posts offered by PayPerPost.com, of course, there are many mixed reviews with bloggers who earn money via this method. Let’s see it from both perspectives.

Disadvantages of Writing Paid Posts

  • You have to understand that some readers would rather stop reading your blogs if they found out that your blogs have too many paid posts.
  • Losing readers would mean losing subscriber as well because they certainly don’t wanna read about things which have nothing to do with your blog
  • The concept of having a niche blog would be defeated, sometimes you have to blog about something irrelevant.
  • In order to rush writing paid posts, you will end up forcing yourself to include normal entries which don’t seem to have the quality.

Advantages of Writing Paid Posts

  • It’s your source of income, if you have a self hosted blog, please don’t forget that you have to pay to maintain your blogs.
  • Writing paid posts will trigger you to think fast! If you want to have more opportunities you cannot just waste time like that.
  • Some opportunities require your website to be at least in Page Rank 1 and above, here you will learn how to earn more links from other sites and at the same time work on your socializing skills.
  • If you decided to commercialize your blog, some advertisers will approach you and that’s how your cash keeps flowing in.

At the end of the day you cannot run away from having debates on writing paid posts, of course, everything has its good and bad sides. If it’s your blog, you do the talking! Some bloggers still have tons of readers despite they have paid posts in between their blogs. Paid posts are not necessarily bad isn’t it?

What is your view on bloggers who write paid posts?

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9 Responses to “Is It Really That Bad Writing Paid Posts?”

  1. Lorna, on October 11th, 2007 at 1:54 am Said:

    I have no problem when it comes to breaking the niche — I don’t have one! I’m still surprised though how I could reach a PR3 without much effort. Gotten lucky, I suppose.

  2. sc_bone, on October 11th, 2007 at 4:03 am Said:

    cedric,
    u somehow always write about stuff that I WANT to know the most
    or stuff that u post, is the stuff i am about to do / just did..
    i signed up for PPP last week, and just got my blog approved
    :)
    u installing something in my mind or something?
    eheheh …
    thanks for the information, dude!

  3. Cedric, on October 12th, 2007 at 1:29 pm Said:

    Bone: No problem! :D

    Lorna: It’s because you are dedicated towards your blog! And you reach PR3 so fast because you deserve it! :D

  4. danielctw, on October 13th, 2007 at 2:59 am Said:

    hmm.. as a matter of fact, I did talk something about paid post.

    Anyway, one should also consider that writing paid post that is relevant to one’s site sometimes has it benefits. Well, but blogs that too many paid post will certainly kill the joy and fun

  5. Adam Mckerlie, on October 31st, 2007 at 10:52 am Said:

    The problem with PPP is that most of the posts are totally irrelevant and bring down the reputation of your blog.

    You need to find a happy medium. I personally think John Chow has way too many paid posts and they bring down the quality of the site. If you even it out and post a lot more of your original content I don’t think its too bad.

  6. papajoneh, on November 3rd, 2007 at 11:55 am Said:

    another great post here.
    For me, I have no argument for bloggers doing their paid posting.. yeah, even before I followed the same path. Especially for bloggers with paid domain name. It’s their blog and they can do whatever they want with it. As most postie, the in between posting is important. I read all of them.
    Just don’t forget, only PPP is the most strict company out there when comes to posting their PP. The rest is just a simple link inserted in the post which can sometimes produce the best story to read. I go to others’ blog not to judge them, but enough to read their interesting posts and never know we end up as friends. that is more important, for me at least. Sorry, long comment. Just my 2 cents.. ok, maybe 50 cents already :D

  7. cyberpunk, on November 11th, 2007 at 1:51 am Said:

    I used to really hate paid posts, but I’ve signed up recently.

    It’s really up to the blogger. The problem is most bloggers write paid posts about items that don’t interest their readers and that seem out of place in their blogs, promoting stuffs that even they won’t be interested at. Readers detect the fakeness of the blogger’s enthusiasm and lose respect for the blogger.

  8. natural, on November 30th, 2007 at 1:24 am Said:

    agreed. some of the posts are crap. i don’t do paid posting, but i do have affiliates and if i like a product or company, i’ll blog about them in exchange for whatever affiliate fee if the service is used.

  9. paulette, on April 27th, 2008 at 2:05 pm Said:

    I think moderation will work if one is fond of writing as a hobby and writing for money. Anyway there’s nothing wrong having the best of both worlds.

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