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This New Policy

Submitted by Brenna Fender on October 26, 2006 - 8:14pm. Blogitive | blogs

I'm a fan of writing for Blogitive. It's been the only way to make any kind of a profit on this blog, since Adsense earnings are slow for me. I know there's no reason why blogs need to make money, but as a professional writer I find it hard to allow myself time to blog away if I can't consider it part of my earnings.

Blogitive has gone through many changes since it began, but this last one is a bit hard to take. We now must post twice in between each sponsored post. This means if you get two offers at the same time, like I just did, then you have to write two separate sponsored posts and two "in between" posts within 48 hours. That's a fair bit of blogging there. That makes that $5 for writing the sponsored post seem a bit "thin," if that makes sense.

I'm guessing that the fact that some people are making blogs up of entirely sponsored posts with no real content is the reason for this change, although it's just a guess. I personally loved it when I could write about whatever I wanted and put an ad at the end. Then people could enjoy the content and see the ad. Now when 5000 people have a post on diamonds at the same time, no one wants to read any of them.

Sigh.

Eventually it won't be worth working for Blogitive any more. All good things come to an end, I guess.

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Submitted by bmr128 on October 26, 2006 - 10:20pm.

We appreciate your feedback and we don't want to make your life harder but some Bloggers have been taking advantage of our previous policies and unfortunately we have to do something about it everntually. The rule shouldn't be too much of an inconvenience because 50 word or less posts are extremely short anyway, this post is already 57 words. We do appreciate your hard work and support.

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Thanks!

Submitted by Brenna Fender on October 27, 2006 - 8:13pm.

Thanks for the input!

It's too bad that you can't just weed out the bloggers who are taking advantage and let those of us who really work at it have more flexibility.

The problem is that, as Manodogs says, many of us try to post once a day (which I used to do, now it's more like a few times a week). When you put several posts in your blog in one day it looks kind of funny, and it seems to dilute the traffic you get to any one entry.

But Blogitive offers come in big clumps. You can get two or three (or more) different offers at once, and they must be completed in two days. THAT'S where the increased work load comes in. If I had a week to post the Blogitive posts, that would be totally fine, it wouldn't be inconvenient at all.

You're right, 50 words is short, but if it's 50 words in my blog, I want it to be interesting, worthwhile reading (I hope). Not just 50 words about what I had for lunch, which would qualify but not add to my blog at all.

Does that make sense?

Sorry that my entry here sounds more harsh than it should. Things are stressful at my house, and this change came at a bad time.

Thanks for the reply. I hope you'll be able to reply back so I know you read this. Otherwise I'll send it to you privately if you accept private messages. I really do appreciate the opportunities that Blogitive offers and I have been very supportive of the service in the past.

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Neat

Submitted by manodogs on October 26, 2006 - 10:44pm.

It's cool they care enough to actually comment on what you wrote, at least! Lets you know it's not a completely automated system.

I have to admit, I agree with what you are saying, but I knew it would come to this for the very reasons Brian mentions above. A lot of people have blogs just for advertising. A lot of good bloggers, in fact. I know some of them from other blogging sites and when the offers come up, I suddenly see them posting here, even though they don't usually.

The only problem I have is that since I run several blogs, I try to keep my posts down to one a day/blog, sometimes less. I write more entries a lot of times, but wait to post them until the next day. I've had to slow that down lately to work on my website. Still, the offers do seem to pour in all at once, so it's going to be hard to meter out.

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I agree

Submitted by Brenna Fender on October 27, 2006 - 8:15pm.

It's hard to deal when you have no offers for two weeks and then five.

Question - what is wrong with a blog just for advertising? It's not against Blogitive policy in terms of them accepting the blog, is it? Why can't advertising only blogs be removed from Blogitive if there is a reason why they are frowned upon?

Just thoughts.

Thanks, Manodogs!

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