Paid Posts – Do They Damage Your Credibility As A Blogger?

Just now I have read a blog post from Darren Rowse from Problogger.net. Darren Rowse is one of the most respected names out there in the blogsphere.

He had made a poll on how many of his readers have written paid posts.

The result was that 23% of ProBlogger readers have written paid posts. Which shows a massive shift from his poll in 2007?

In 2007 34% of his readers have committed to write paid posts. In this time many bloggers have experiment with paid posts as one potential income stream.

I think this also depends of the nature of the post which is required from the paying sponsor.

If you have the opportunity to test drive the product or service you have to write a paid review about it and you come to your honest opinion that this product or service can be valuable than I don’t see any issue to write a positive paid post about it.

It depends from you and your responsibility as a blogger on how you treat the ‘paid post’ income stream!

A. If you want to write your honest opinion and gain credibility or
B. If you only write what’s required and favoured by the paying sponsor.

I think with the first one (A.) you can build your credibility!

B. will damage not only the credibility of you as a blogger. More it will damage the credibility of all bloggers out there and could make blogging worthless in the long therm.

The consumer would not trust you and the blogosphere anymore!

Here is the full article of Darren Rowse in ProBlooger.net

Furthermore the FTC prepares to crack down on bloggers compensated for posts and plans to monitor blogs for claims, payments, etc. Read the full article here.

CONCLUSION: In the near future this makes specialized Blog Ad Networks more important for bloggers and advertisers where sponsored posts like videos, text ads and articles are labeled as a sponsored ads by defoult to avoid any confusion on consumers side.

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Part Seven Of 8 Powerful Ways For Your Inbound Marketing

In part Six I have gave you some tips on how to step into Social Media to make it work for you and your blog. Did you registered with some of the Social Media sites and became a valuable and helpful community member yet?

I would love to hear from your experiences and your achieved milestones. Please feel free to post your experiences below in the comment section.

Today I’ll give you some more sources where you can find other blogs to leave qualified comments, to exchange links or simply to get some guest bloggers from.

Here in DoFolowsBlogs you can find a lot of Blogs listed to choose from

Blogged.com offers to you a large directory of blogs of different topics, its worth to register and get in touch with the bloggers there.

Wit these two sources you can build your network, get the opportunity to write quality comments, get back links (PR) and maybe some guest bloggers.

Go there and register, invite, communicate. Simply take action and have fun!

The content of Part Eight I will hold back as a little secret for now! To not miss Part Eight, subscribe to my blog via RSS to get more great posts like this one.

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Part Eight

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Part Six Of 8 Powerful Ways For Your Inbound Marketing

In part Part Three I have shown you a large list of social sites where you can register and spread the word about your blog, business or anything else. I also showed to you the easy way to distribute your message with one Ping to all of these sites.
Did you register and added all included sites how it is described?

If yes, read further.

Social Media means interaction. The more you give the more you will get back. Become a real community member and add value to the community.

Meet people interested and interesting for your niche and start a conversations.

Be helpful and answer questions. Ask questions as well and give other the possibility to answer your questions and show their expertise.

Promote your content. Encourage other bloggers in your niche to become guest bloggers and exchange links with related blogs as well.

In Part Seven I will give you some more resources to gain more qualified traffic for your blog or business for free. Stay tuned and subscribe to my blog via RSS to get more great posts like this one.

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Part Five Of 8 Powerful Ways For Your Inbound Marketing

Do some steps to improve traffic and Page Rank.
Look at Wikipdia for a more detailed explanation about Page Rank:

Register with these services below. They want you to set a back link in exchange that’s ok.

http://www.blogtoplist.com/marketing-seo/
http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=89022
http://www.blogtopsites.com/marketing-seo/
http://www.topblogging.com/business/
http://www.prchecker.info/
http://www.blogcatalog.com/directory/blogging
http://www.blogdigger.com/
http://www.mynewblog.com/business/
http://www.topblogarea.com/business/
http://www.bloghub.com/
http://www.bloghints.com/
http://www.blogarama.com/
http://www.globeofblogs.com/
http://www.blogio.net/
http://www.bannerexperiment.com/

Also take a closer look at http://www.dofollowblogs.com/ here you can find blogs related to your niche to set trackbacks or comment on their posts, which can also be good for traffic and PR.

In Part Six I will show you how to include Sociel Media into your Blog marketing. Stay tuned and subscribe to my blog via RSS to get more great posts like this one.

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Part Four Of 8 Powerful Ways For Your Inbound Marketing

Waht’s SEO?
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via search results.

Optimize your page title and take care of your blog ULRs, the title of your blog should be visible as permalinks instead a page number. Take a closer look to this post title and than look into your browser, you can read it there as well, only for you to get the picture.

Optimize your tags in your content to underline the importance of your posts.
Here in this post 7 SEO Tips for your WordPress Blog you’ll find quick and easy steps you can do as well.

Optimize your keywords and phrases. The most popular one are not always the best, please read my former post about this  Get The Right Phrases And Boost Your SEO.

In Part Five I will show you some ordinary sources to push your Page Rank. Stay tuned and subscribe to my blog via RSS to get more great posts like this one.

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