This is quite a hot topic at the moment, what with Pay-Per-Post, Blogitive and now LoudLaunch.
My thoughts on it are quite simple: It’s a great idea, as long as it doesn’t spoil a blog. As you can see, I’ve joined LoudLaunch, and will join the others when my blog is old enough, to give me a greater choice of review topics. I will NOT turn Thermal into an ad-blog or Splog. I will attempt to maintain my unofficial target rate of around 5 ‘normal’ posts a day, with at most 3 paid posts. I will only post more paid, if I can post more ‘normal’ ones – this will be the maximum ratio. I encourage everyone to do it – we all have bills to pay, internet related or not. Any extra money will benefit my family.
I will steal an idea from Bobby Griffin, and put the following in all of my paid post titles from now on: [P] That way, if you really can’t stand the idea, you can just skip the post onto the next one. I read plenty of blogs with paid posts in, some of the posts I read ‘cos they’re interesting, others I don’t because they’re not. Just like normal posts really…
Comments would be most welcome.
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Not sure yet. Are you allowed to make the post look different? Ie, different font, colors, style etc, so they’re obviously ads?
Yes. Full disclosure is mandatory, and blog design is up to you. They give you a title, some pointers & a link to include, the style of the post is up to you, as long as its genuine. In the case of the Agilis one, I went to their website, had a read & then wrote the post.
If I can’t write a post that comes across ok, I won’t post one-a lot like normal posts…
I am doing sponsored posts too:-)
I think I might steal the idea of {P} from you and Bob.
I will Exercise for Comments!
Sunflower
I think it helps people skip them if they really don’t like them. I treat reading paid posts the same as unpaid – if its interesting I read, if its not, I won’t!