Getting Paid To Post

Getting Paid To Post Blogs

Being paid to post can mean a couple of different things. For many bloggers, it means getting paid in money or products to post a review or mention a company on a personal blog. But blogging for money can also lead you down the path of the professional blogger, where you write posts for other blogs.

Placing Products on your blog

Some bloggers believe that getting paid to post about products or companies is a bad thing. However, blogging is hard work. Why would it be bad to get paid to talk about a product every once in awhile? Some bloggers fear that the influence of advertisers might take over the traditionally independent voice of the blogosphere. When advertisers offer money to bloggers to praise their products and services in a blog, it might not result in an honest review of the business. So, if you're paid to post information about someone else, make sure that you retain your ability to post your own honest opinion. You might even want to consider starting an additional blog to showcase content that you're being paid to produce as opposed to the content contained in your original blog.

Above all, let your readers know about products you've been paid to post about. You can head off accusations of deception.

Sponsored Reviews

Sponsored reviews is a company that connects advertisers with bloggers who are willing to write reviews about the advertisers' products and services. This company is forthright with the expectation that you as a blogger will offer an honest opinion and even give constructive critiscism about the products its advertisers creat.

www.sponsoredreviews.com

Paid Per Post - www.payperpost.com

Pay per post is a company that helps bloggers get paid for creating and publishing advertiser-sponsored content. The theory behind the company is that if you're a blogger, you'll inevitably write about some products you've used in the past or are currently using. Pay per Post believes you should be paid for those kinds of posts. Pay Per Post, works somewhat like a job board where you accept bids to write about a certain product or service. The amount of money you get paid is determined by the advertiser and the amount of traffic you report.

Amazon Associates Program

www.amazon.com/associates

Amazon is the most recognized affilliate program available, and it's arguably one you're likely to benefit from using because many bloggers mention books and DVDs they've enjoyed. Amazon Associates works by letting you create specially formatted links you can use on your blog to drive traffic to the Amazon Web site. Anything that gets purchased by a visitor who clicks your link earns you a percentage of the sale as a referral fee.

LinkShare - www.linkshare.com/affiliates/affiliates.shtml

LinkShare is another affiliate program that calls its program a pay-per-action marketing network. You can place ads, both text and graphical ads, on your blog and make money from any sales that come from the reader sales.

WHAT IS HTML?

HTML documents are really nothing but text, designed to be read and then displayed by your internet browser. HTML tells your browser all kinds of things. For instance, it has instructions for all Internet Browsers about where to find images that should be displayed, how the text on the screen is supposed to be aligned, and what text is linked to what Web page. It can also have instructions about how audio or video are to be displayed on the screen. Using HTML is easy. Each bit of code, or tag, with a very few exceptions, has an opening and closing tag to surround the element you want to affect. A few tags are standalone elements that are inserted in only one spot. The basic idea with HTML is that it is used to "mark up" text, photos, and other elements.