If you are running a blog, either for fun or with the aim of creating a decent income, then one of the methods that you may look at for making an income is sponsored posts.
Is sponsored posting ethical?
There is a great discussion as to whether these are ethical or not. You are advertising to your audience a site, company or a link on the pretense that you are recommending it out of relevance. But in actual fact, you may only have first heard of the site 5 minutes ago when you were asked to write about them.
Locating work
That aside, they can be a first-rate generating potential. You can deal directly with various contacts for sponsored posts, or use one of the variety of main companies on the marketplace. Dealing direct does make a lot more cash, but it is more intricate to find the people wanting to advertise on your website.
So, how do you go about it? Well, find a site or two that you like the looks of and sign up. You give them your basic site details, the address, a sketch etc, and then they quite often give you a claim sentence to print in a post. The sentence is utter garbage and is designed just to prove that you do actually have permissions to update the web site. You add the sentence to a current post that appears on the home page and then you are away.
Posting sponsored content
After that, you merely have to sit down and wait for a few opportunities to be delivered. As they do, and they will if your web site is good enough, you read the necessities, write a post and then advise the scheme the URL of the new post. There will probably be an automated check of the accepted links and then the advertiser gets to review your post. If the whole thing passes, you then get payment a month later.
On site disclosure
It sounds easy, and generally is. But you to have to be wary that a recent alteration to advertising standards mean that you have to divulge that you are being paid to write that post so that your readers know it is not just a site that you have discovered and want to promote. They have the right to know there is a financial incentive for you to write that post.
How this is dealt with varies from scheme to scheme. A few insist that every post carries a disclosure whilst some insist that your site carries a disclosure page. Myself, I try to do both as much as possible.
Variations
Not all sponsored posts schemes work the same way. For instance, the one I work with the most just suggests what to do, a minimum word count and the links and lets you get on with it. Another scheme just wants a link in a post of relevant content.
These schemes are largely about tricking the search engines into seeing more inbound links, again a little dubious, but there is also an alternative system in which all links are nofollowed. This is quite a bright set-up, which I have only just started to use and there is presently little work to be had. If it starts to grow it will get its own write-up, but its main aim is just to get bloggers debating about their advertisers.
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