I’ve been doing a huge stint of paid posts lately to earn some extra cash. Sadly, I’ve managed to saturate Peep At Life with posts on a whole range of subjects. But I have learnt a few things that are worth noting.

• Most sites that pay for blog posts are often very dull, and are not naturally attractive to visitors to get promoted virally.
• Paid posts can be very lucrative, and if you signed up to all paid post systems and you have a blog with a Google Page Rank of 4 or more, you can easily make paid posts a full time job. However, you will lose visitors on your site if you have too many.
• After a while, you keep seeing the same type of site over and over again, and you lack inspiration to write posts about that type of site.

It does make me wonder what the ideal volume of paid posts on a blog can be, versus your own high quality posts. And furthermore, would a widget that allows your visitors to hide paid posts to just see normal content be useful?

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Do you own a web directory? The world of web directories is a difficult one, particularly with the recent changes made by Google against websites that sell paid links. There are so many directories on the web, how do you avoid being one of the fly-by-night directories? If you’re serious about how to run your directory, then make sure you keep up to date with the latest directory news.

The Directory Blog features tips on running a phpLinkDirectory-based directory, Interviews with famous directory owners, popular and respected directories, how to derive income from directories and many other directory related issues.

Patrick discusses the perfect directory list, and what influences directory lists for use in paid submission services. Trying to work out the best features and attributes for directories will give you the best returns on your submissions. Patrick is looking for opinions, got any that can help?

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It appears that too many blog owners feel that it’s ok to steal content from my websites and post it onto their websites. I’ve decided to make it my mission to aggressively use all legimate means of having the content removed.

My techniques include:

• Contacting the site owner asking to remove my content immediately. This usually results in a bounced email though.
• Contacting the web hosting company of the site to tell them about their customers as copyright infringers. This has mixed results.
• Report the blog to Google Adsense for copyright infringement. This is a new technique I’ve started. I expect Google to be busy and take a while to process the report, but equally they will be aggressive on this.

I really hate automated blogs, and there definitely appears to be a rise in these blogs nowadays.

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Whilst checking out a few new blogs on the scene, I discovered a brilliantly simple way to get backlinks. Offer a backlink from your blog in return for a review of your blog.

So here’s the deal…

• You review my blog in 100 to 200 words.
• Include the anchor text “Dan’s Peep At Life” with a link to the homepage and also link to this post.
• You can link to anything else on the blog too.
• The review can be good or bad, but the review must be in a blog post of its own.

For example:

Dan’s Peep At Life is a blog written by Daniel Harrison in which he gives his views on the environment, news, blogging world and anything else he finds amusing. If you review his blog, you can get a free backlink to your blog too!

Contact me when you’ve done the review, and I’ll link to your site. I’ll write a short post with a link to your site to say thanks.

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