I have jumped on the sponsored posts/reviews bandwagon this year and have gotten fair compensation from it. That is one reason I am growing this domain, is so I can continue to earn some revenue from blogging by doing sponsored posts.
One of the requirements to do paid reviews or sponsored posts is to have a well established blog with an audience that will read all the reviews that you will be paid for writing. That means your site has to be indexed and ranked.
I just read this article though that seems to imply that you could be penalized for writing paid reviews. Sure enough, when I started checking my page ranks, I noticed a drop in two of my blogs! And one of those blogs is my most popular one, the food blog. Now a lot of the SEO goobly is way over my head, but I just don’t understand how my ranking suddenly dropped.
October 31st, 2007 at 3:07 pm
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