In the past I have written about how I have held back from this sort of money making program. There are various reasons for having said this. Mainly because I didn't want my blog swamped with sponsored posts and also I thought that it might affect the number of visitors to the site. I also mentioned about how writing such posts involved extra work.
I've thought about all of this and but then remembered what this blog is supposed to be all about - which is making money. That's what my original mission was. Sometimes it's necessary to remind ourselves as to why we are blogging.
So I decided to try the sponsored post route to run alongside the other things I do. It seems silly to completely ignore a particular stream of possible income.
As I said I've written six sponsored posts and this should earn me about $140. Now what I want to try and determine is if this will have any detrimental effect to my blog. So far it hasn't made a scrap of difference to the number of visitors or anything else - not that I'm aware of anyway.
To adjust for the additional posts I have increased the number shown on the front page to ten. This way regular posts are still easily available and it is also fairer on the people who are paying me money.
At the moment I have only done posts through PayPerPost.
I'll do a proper report on how I get on with this after about six weeks. This will give a decent time span to judge the results.
Good luck,
Mike.
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