How to get rich (part 4) - Get Paid For Blogging

Being paid for blogging is a concept there is getting more and more visible the last couple of years.
Basically it’s all about waking the little journalist inside of you, and rent your writing abilities out to big and smaller companies who have discovered the advantage in this new form of advertising.

Example:
A firm launches a new product, and chooses as a part of their advertising strategy, to use bloggers help them getting the word out.
In stead of just using some fancy website banners, they actually pay the bloggers to write a few nice words about their product.

A blogger is signed up with a site, which primary and single purpose is to establish contact between the firms and the bloggers.
Here the blogger log in at his private area and can chooses between couples of tasks, and then write a small article and a couple of days after, the payment wait at his paypal account.

This is actually very simple; the ethics on the other hand is discussable. Some believes that this form of advertising will ruin the blogging culture, and especially make the readers unsure of which content are the bloggers own personal opinion and which are paid for.
My own personal beliefs are that there is nothing to be afraid of.
New blogs are born every ten seconds. And only a small percentage will survive, and the again, only a small percentage of those blogs will be visited by others, than the writers friends and family.
After all, if the blogger is ethical and true to his readers, he would never write about a product, he couldn’t vote for.

There is also a “sister” to this kind of advertising. Shvoong.com is a perfect example.
You choose a book or website, write a review, and submit it to their site.
They won’t pay you big time at once, but instead they are using adsense or a similar product, to support their website, and the more visitors who’ll read your articles the more you’ll get paid. It is as simple as that.

And then there are the last (and most intelligent solution, in my opinion) alternative.
Write your blog in a community.
A community is basically a giant blog, with several writers (some times many thousands), and instead of setting your blog up with adsense, and using time creating traffic (which can be vary hard to do btw.), you’ll get the traffic they already have, and in return you’ll share some of your adsense income with the community-site.
The only disadvantage to this concept, is that you’ll have to share your trafiic with all the other writers. This is something you’ll have to calculate yourself. But remember that the traffic on such site is quality traffic, and most visitors actually read your posts, and then again some small percentage click the adsense links…

If you combine this last method with a classical blog (your own blog), and post your articles on both sites, you’ll in the long run get lots of traffic and hence lots of $.
Be sure to read the terms and conditions on the varius sites, so you don’t end up breaking some rules.


Articles written FOR OTHERS on YOUR SITE:

Reviewme (they will only accept if your blog is somehow known allready)
PayPerPost
Blogvertise (They dont have any requirements regarding the age of your blog and etc.)

Your articles on other blogs/sites:

Blogfeast (write blogposts on their site, and share the adsense (90% to you)
Shvoong (reviews of books, webpages and translations)

Similar for all methods are, that you’ll get paid to write. And even though most bloggers write to write and not to get paid, it’s not a bad deal anyhow.

Please leave a comment with your views on the subject.