Now I don’t do a lot of paid blogging on this blog. A few PPP and Linkworth posts, but for the most part, this blog is strictly AdSense monetized. I don’t get anything out of it, and I’ve gotten less than $50 for the paid blogging I have done on this site.
On other blogs of mine, however, I do a lot of paid blogging, and there is one company that I blog for that is really starting to irritate me with their constant claims that our blogs are ours but then telling us what can and cannot be on them as far as other paid blogging companies. Newsflash - very few paid bloggers work with just ONE company. Why? Because you CANNOT make a decent amount of money through paid blogging if you do.
But when they start telling you that advertisers who circumvent their system in order to work with you directly are unethical, I draw the line. It works like this - I do a post for a particular advertiser. That advertiser likes the way I happened to position their link. They want to make sure I get more work with their company and do not want to take the chance that the paid blogging system might not give me more of their assignments. So they contact me directly and ask me to do a post or two for them.
I find it interesting that this is considered unethical. Funny that some of the companies offer a way for advertisers to do that through their systems. Yes it is still through the company’s system, but…the advertiser has the option of actually contacting an individual blogger. This company does not offer that option. So what choice does an advertiser have but to actually circumvent the system entirely in order to work with the blogger they want to work with.
More and more I am seeing that paid blogging may not really be worth all the headache that I’ve been finding with it lately. Time will tell I suppose, but I’ve been doing it for a year and although I have made a couple thousand dollars at it, it hasn’t been enough that I could really do anything except buy a few extra groceries or make the payment on my sofa.
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