Sat 10 Nov 2007
Getting Carried Away
Posted by tel under Blogging
Ok, I admit it, I’m getting a bit carried away with this writing paid reviews thing.
Why?
Well it makes money for me, for one thing. And considering the theme of this blog, that’s a very important one thing! The other reason is I suddenly find that I have access to a much better (for better read better paid) and larger selection of reviews to write. Obviously I can’t write them all in here, or this blog will end up looking like an advertiser’s retreat!
But I think it’s fair to take advantage of this spate of income generating writing gigs (which is what they are, after all) by using my own writing skills and the medium of this blog. To add some weight to the plus side of doing this is some of these reviews are actually of interest to other internet marketers. Who doesn’t buy domain names and wouldn’t be partial to a discount if they could get it? See what I mean?
I agree that some of these paid reviews can be taken with a pinch of salt by some readers and that’s fair enough. I wouldn’t write anything that I thought would really upset anyone. You won’t find me promoting online gambling, or any other unsavoury topic here in this blog.
I’m not saying I wouldn’t review any online source of making money in my other blogs that are primarily concerned with, ahem, making money! But The Honest Way will stay true to its main topic of being an internet marketing and online business seat of learning and information, so anything in that vein is, I believe fair game.
While I’m waiting for PPP to approve the first of my Make Money blogs which will take the heat off this one, I still have to make money by writing paid reviews while the opportunities present themselves to me, so there will be a few more to come over the next few days at least. Then things will calm down a little as the other blogs take over the main money making function and The Honest Way can concentrate more on information and general interest in the world of internet marketing, working from home and online business.
Here’s to all of your success!
November 11th, 2007 at 10:39 am
You have not look for pardons for you and others, I think, Terry. As for me, everybody who works hardly with his/her blog do it with intention to have his “pizzamoney” and maybe much more. Look at those old and high PR blogs -they don’t think about it. To maintain a blog every day is a hard work and if we find reviews posts we all understand, what it is.
The other side is HOW to write this review, I think. It’s possible to write it in the way that others read them with pleasure and gratitude for help. Sometimes I look for reviews befor I join this or that program. It’s important to avoid mistakes specially if you are not english-born person and great texts in english are very hard for you.
By the way. About PPP. We discuss once this program. I said, they did not appruved my blog because they don’t approve blogs with PR under 5, they wrote to me. But today I saw a blog with PPP reviews with PR2… Strange thing…
November 11th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Thanks Liudmila you’re right in that most bloggers are in the same boat and like to make some money from their hard work, so they do understand when we write paid reviews.
As for PPP, they approved my blog initially when it was PR0! Their criteria hasn’t changed as far as I know because a lot of the review opportunities they publish are still for low PR blogs. The only rule was your blog had to be at least 90 days old, regularly updated with no long breaks between posts.
Terry
February 2nd, 2008 at 8:13 am
Hey, very nice honest blog! You’re right in that you should help your other sites out when they need it with some link juice. That’s the honest way to work, right?