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Paid Posts – lowering the quality of your blog

peepingtom — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:01:17 +0000

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?

My first review for a backlink!

peepingtom — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:00:33 +0000

A while ago, I suggested that anyone wanting a backlink could review my blog in return. Well, Richard from Karma in Mind has kindly reviewed Peep At Life, and therefore I have granted a backlink as promised. Thanks Richard!

Issue with content theft from PeepAtLife.com

peepingtom — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:49:27 +0000

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.

PeepAtLife.com gaining popularity already!

peepingtom — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:28:12 +0000

I’ve only had PeepAtLife.com for about a week and its already gaining in popularity. The number of unique visitors per day is already at least 10. I recently purchased directory submission services, and submissions are already coming back as approved. It’s a great start for the site!