These days, there are many ways for a blogger to earn money. From the controversial Pay Per Post to the ubiquitous Adsense, to the long standing affiliate program.
As a publisher, marketer and blogger I welcome all those opportunities that these programs offer. But sometimes, you need to be true to your own business and this is what I mean.
When PayPerPost first launched, I as usual, signed up and checked it out. I submitted a blog – this one and had no trouble getting it accepted.
Unfortunately, none of the offers were something I want to blog about, nor were they products I cared to recommend to readers who graciously let me into their RSS subscription list. At other times they just were plain irrelevant.
So I dropped this blog and submitted another blog. A less business related one that would likely open more opportunities to me. But here’s where everything went south.
They rejected the blog – which is no biggie to me. What really got under my skin for the rejection was, the archives must be categorized by date so they can find out at a glance if I meet the 20 posts in 90 days criteria.
So, they are asking me to do their work for them. I still would’ve obliged if they gave me the option to send them direct links to the archive pages what are in chronological order but no such chance was given. The pages are there, I just don’t display the links to them.
Ultimately, I decided, this is my blog, I will design and lay out my blog the way I want to. I will not re-organize my blog design just so I can take on Paid posts.
Stubborn? Maybe. But there is something to be learned here. It doesn’t matter what the purpose of your blog/website is. In the chase to earn money, we must remember this is our business, not someone else’s so don’t let them run it for you.
Also, there are many ways to earn. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. In this case, I didn’t need them since the blog earns from other more passive ways.
What about you? What would you have done? Do you think it’s no big deal to change your blog for a program? You tell me.
