Understanding the Impact of Paid to Blog Posts - Is the Program for You?
I Started five blogs this summer, to help the students of my course 'make $1000 a month blogging wat writersonlinecourses.com' learn the ropes and actually see that the claims in the course are true.
Paid Blog Posts and Page Rank
This blog now has a PR2. That is good enough to get started, but it does bring up some good questions. Will blogging for pay lower the site's PR. The simple answer is no.
One reason it does not lower the page rank is because paid blog links almost always lead to a page with a higher PR than the blog post. So, in fact, the opportunity to increase the PR of the blog is real.
Communati mentioned that I helped increase the Page Rank of this site. In a real way, I did, by linking back and forth from this site to web pages and blogs with PR3 and PR4. This increased the value of the communati page.
Understanding Page Rank
Now, if the blogger were using heading titles, and were 'breaking' their posts every 150 words. If the blogger were building 'keyword anchored' links to a specific post, then yes. There may be an argument that the blog is being degraded by the paid ads. But, as there are few blogs in a site like communati that meet the criteria:
-No more than 10 keywords which are repeated through the entire blog
-Staying on topic
-Using proper coding and H1/H2/H3 titles
Then the effect of paid blog posts is minimal and on the 'plus' side of the scale, as apposed to the minus side.
Not everyone is intrested in writing for pay. This is totally acceptable. For others, the concept is a natural progression from hobby writer to professional blogger status. Will it offend your readers? I will talk more on this later, but the answer is basically - no, not if done right.
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Submitted by gracepub on Tue, 10/30/2007 - 16:23.
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Would paid blog posts be the
Would paid blog posts be the same as 'paid links'?
Have you seen this
I only ask as one of my blogs went from 3-0 and the only difference was doing paid posts.
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no - paid posts don't drop -
What you linked to is a 'link farm' and will - quickly- drop the PR. Give me the URL of the blog that dropped. I'll try to see why it dropped.
Two of my paid post sites were the ones that increased. And all three that are still at PR0, have no advertising at all on the page.
But, you must realize that Google recently changed its algorithyms - twice in one year. Never happened before. Most of us SEO marketers are still realing from the changes in the summer.
I noticed that none of my sig lines, my side bar links, blogrolls, etc count anymore - only keyword anchored and 'in' the article. This dropped my main site from 1800 - 500 acceptable links. BUT - that said, I still have the same page rank.
It will take a while for us to figure this one out. Still, I might be able to help if I look at the code, layout, and what is actually on your blog.
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Cool, the blog is
Cool, the blog is http://www.blogsire.com/myblog/
Thanks
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Some Problems
First problem is all the code before you actually read content. Take a lesson from www.getpaidtowriteonline.com, also a wordpress blog.
Problem #1: Too Much Code
Google will not travel more than 300 words to find content. It will leave - you have 3000 words before your content. That means, your blog never changes in Googles eyes - because it only reads the first 300 words.
Whamwriter's Wordpress blog has only 700 words before content on www.getpaidtowriteonline.com, However, notice that she uses no follow tags to make most of her links invisible. She also has meta info that she changes and laters every couple of months, so that Google does see differences on the page and is forced to continue down the page.
Problem #2: Meta Information
Your keywords are not duplicated in your blog. I looked through several posts and found none of these keywords in the headings, the content, and 'no' tags.... bad move.
The most misunderstood aspect of page rank is the meta information. To the outsider, it is suppose to be the keyword phrases that bring people to the blog (never use single words anymore.)
However, to Google, it should be a 'tag' to tell the search engines what the dominant 5 - 10 topics are on the website. You should also have tags. So, your keywords should appear in the titles, and at least once in the first 30 words of each blog.
Problem #3: Static Pages
A static page is a page that is written in code and is easy to access. www.getpaidtowriteonline.com, has pages that end in the static page URL of the article.
My site: www.inspiredauthor.com The pages are static pages.
Look at your blog. They appear to be locations within your data base. While the search engines are learing to crawl these pages. They still haev a hard time.
Problem #4: Inbound Links
You only have 9 inbound links to your blog. You need at least 200 for PR2, and 500 for PR3, and about 1800 - 8 000 for PR4.
I have noticed that Google is giving less and less relevance to inbound links to the home page. This is one of last summer's changes, but links to secondary pages gaining more importance.
Problem #5: Google Cache
Here is the results for
your cached pages
Basically - you have no cached' pages.
Good News. All of your problems can be fixed relatively easily.
1. Get a better template and put all your columns on the right. Also, hire whamwriter to optimize your site. She is cheap.
2. Whamwriter can take care of this for you.
3. Hm, you'll have to get ahold of a Wordpress tutorial for a solution to this one.
4. Join a networking group like
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Thanks I will look at all
Thanks I will look at all those points.
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I have a long-windered question for you, gracepub
Various people (and I tried it) back at WU started adding various website review and other paid/sponsored posts into their weekly blogging.
Here's the question. Let's suppose a blogger has developed a niche area, more or less, writing about the environment or books or parenting.
Then, suddenly, here's a post about resort hotels in Paris or a financial services website.
Once this happens, why doesn't it drive readers away? That is, if somebody has what amounts to a daily column about a subject that draws readers in, why wouldn't they be disappointed to find what amounts to advertising there instead of the content they're looking for?
When I look at the primary mainstream lit blogs such as Elegant Variation, Maud Newton, etc., I don't see them inserting paid posts into the mix.
So, I guess I'm wondering why the paid stuff doesn't turn readers away or make the site less professional in terms of its look and feel.
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Gracepub, you are a wealth of information and a giving co-blogger. Your helpfulness to Sire is just one example.