If you read my blog often, you will find an occasional post or two on topics (e.g. gossips, etc.) which are totally off my focus of web design, internet, technology & blogging. Sometimes you might find a small fine print at the bottom of a post saying that it’s a sponsored post. Well, those are can just some of the titles I wrote for paid blogging services. E.g. PayPerPost or ReviewMe, etc.

The next question you might ask is ‘Are they really going to pay me for my posts?’
The answer is Yes!

But you need to know this.

For Paid Posts.

1. Minimum Number of Word Required. There is usually a requirement for a minimum number of words required for each paid post, and most of the time it is about 100 words. Sometimes you will find those with 50 words only, my advice is to snip those up quickly, it is fast and simple to write, not much thought process required.
2. Required Text Links and Anchor Text. This is for SEO purpose mainly. I have to say that if paid posts campaign are done skillfully, paid posts can really get you up the Google Page Rank.
   Imagine the case whereby that all the major websites (PR6 and above) all refer to a link on your website, naturally the spider and robot will pick those up, before you know it your website will be indexed more often by Google, and based on users searched results, your websites and pages will be higher up the rating system.
3. Type of Contents to be Posted. Sometimes, there will be a requirement to talk about a product or services, sometimes it might be a requirement to discussion on a certain topics, etc.
4. Required Images or Tracking Images. Somtimes, advertisers will require their logo and banners to be placed at a blogger’s website, etc. For advertisers, this will really create awarences. But for readers it’s a bit like SPAM.

As you can see, just to make $5-$10 per articles (usual rate) there’s quite a lot things to be done and thought through. And sometimes, after you wrote all these posts, the advertisers say that the post did not met the requirements stated and not pay up. As you can see, it might not be worthwhile doing paid posts, especially after spending a huge amount of time on it and not get paid.

Moving forward, I will cut down on the paid posts on my blog, I will only take those which has a min payout of$10 per article, so that it will be worthwhile doing. And for someone looking something more affordable, I will posts it in my A Walk In The Flip Side blog.

Now I hope I convince you not to do paid posts, if you looking to improve your SEO, get ext links instead, if you looking to increase awareness, do a YouTube vide, start a blog, etc. There are a lot of ways to do things online, and paid posts might not be rule for everyone.

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