Comments on Nick's Writing Blog: One Way You Can Get Paid to Blog

Come posts require you to make a personal recommen...

2007-05-19T03:20:00.000+01:00

Come posts require you to make a personal recommendation, others do not. It's totally up to you what posts you choose to do. You don't have to join PayPerPost in hopes of making big bucks, pick and choose and take the small amounts as they come. Either way it's nice to get some $$ for your time to review a site or service.

Hi Nick,Good info here, thanks! I recently reviewe...

2007-02-16T12:24:00.000Z

Hi Nick,

Good info here, thanks! I recently reviewed a product I bought after reading about it on MWC.
I have now posted about it on my blog and recommended it. Like you, I wouldn't post about it if I didn't believe the product was worthwhile, or provide a decen income stream for others.

Thanks, Fordy. Yes, totally agree with you on this...

2007-02-15T19:31:00.000Z

Thanks, Fordy. Yes, totally agree with you on this point. In my occasional paid posts I do always make clear that the post is sponsored, and I would never endorse a product or service I didn't believe in.
Nick

Hi Nick, love your blog. Just wanted to add somet...

2007-02-15T18:30:00.000Z

Hi Nick, love your blog. Just wanted to add something to this topic ...

There has been some debate around the blogsphere as to how ethical these schemes are. People see blogs as representing a person (usually) and therefore anything that looks like an endorsement of a product is taken as a personal recommendation. The thought that someone is being paid to say good things about a product is usually far from the readers mind and so the question of deception arises.

Currently the debate seems to be coming down on the side of these schemes being ok *provided* that the blogger makes full disclosure of the fact that they have been paid for the review.