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Loading ...Its no secret that I get paid for certain posts on my blog. Its my blog, I post what I want to. I have to pay the bills and its nice having a source of income. From my standpoint there’s nothing wrong with monetizing your website so that its more than just a place on the web where you post darling photos of your kids (have you see Grace and Emms lately?) or spew about your boss, job, spouse, car, the jerk who cut you off on the way home tonight or the incompetent fools we have running things in washington. Your blog is your blog and no one should tell you what to post or how to post or when to post.
There’s been (of late) a lot of chatter on one of the boards for one of the paid blogging communities I belong to about order of posts. An abnormal amount really, that has lead to several of the more seasoned members of the community to totally abandon the program they helped build. Something thats disheartening to see.
This all stems from a sudden change in the TOS (with out warning, which seems to be one of the big areas of disagreement) regarding the way sponsored posts are posted. The change in the TOS (the way it is written now makes it against TOS to have ANY sponsored posts back to back as opposed to just their specific sponsored posts) means more over all blogging for the blogger and contradicts one of the other paytoblog sites tos. Its a tough line to toe.
The problem as I see it comes in determining what is a sponsored post and what isn’t. There’s a lot of gray area there. If I link to Gruntled’s Blog and get traffic back in return, is that a sponsored post? Who’s to say that in writing about my weekend, I can’t link to a cd I bought on Amazon (using my aff code of course) that I want to share with my readers? If I can work in sponsored links to my every day posts about Grace, Emma, Amy, our Dogs, work, cool things I’ve seen, who cares?
For the time being, I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing. If someone comes up and says “Hey you, Mcangeli, we don’t like how you’re running your blog” well, I’ll look at it then, but most likely, I’ll tell them to shove it. 
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September 5th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Your blog sucks balls. I don’t like the fact that you get paid to post. I would like to read about you and what you think, not about the products that you’re pitching to me. I really don’t care for it at all.
I think that I will continue to read your blog so that I can bitch about what you are doing. I really have nothing better to do. I could just not visit your site any more but that would be to easy. I am drawn to what I dislike and it fuels my fire even more to hate on the game and the players involved.
If you don’t stop getting paid to post, I will have not choice to to continue my reading of your blog and bitching about something the helps you pay for it. Maybe, just maybe, I will one day die and hopefully at that time someone will take my place and bitch even more than I have about that fact that you are making money.
Of course if you travel to my blog you will find the same thing.
September 5th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
“Hey you, Mcangeli, we don’t like how you’re running your blog”
September 6th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Tough!!
September 6th, 2007 at 9:56 am
You are absolutely correct. Your blog is yours, without a doubt. They would have nothing to market if bloggers didn’t do their own thing. The obvious concern is that if you start posting for dollars, and don’t write anything else, you blog will become one bog commercial. I can see their concern with that.
Like you said, if you are writing an entry that is not paid, and in the discussion you happen to mention that you got a goo deal on baby wipes, your readers who also have pre-toddlers will want to know where, so that they might also get in on a good deal. On the same coin would be if you are talking about an awesome book you are reading, you may as well go and find a pic of the cover, and put the link in order to help your readers find it. if you have a ref code, nobody should be offended. it’s part of the discussion, an if you get a dollar from Amazon because of the link, that’s good too, goes toward your next book.
In a lot of ways, it’s like government. The safeguards and rules are well-intended, but in many cases, the power of tending those rules quickly intoxicates the rule-keepers.
I say keep chugging along.