Sponsored Blog Posts

Today, I have the pleasure of welcoming my first ever guest-poster. Carolyn, who uses the pseudonym ‘gardendog’ here on ScrawlBug, kindly agreed to write up a bit about her experience with sponsored blog posts, after the recent discussion here.

Carolyn’s a blogger who has several interests: she writes poetry on one blog and her life with her (many!) dogs on another. She’s also an avid gardener – the dogs, too, though they might not dig up exactly what she wants…

Here’s what she has to say about sponsored blogging:

My beginnings in the world of sponsored blogs were not auspicious. I started with Blogsvertise in late December, 2008. I had my first attempts in the business rejected, and I nearly gave it up. I had no idea why I was rejected, and I decided it was too complicated for little ol’ me.

Then I read a little bit more and I realised where I had gone wrong. My fault was that I didn’t correctly link the given websites with the given anchor texts, because I didn’t, at that stage, realise what they were, and how to do it. A little more reading, and I felt I was set. As an aside, always read the FAQs – they are there for people like you (and me), who need to find out how to do something properly.

I have done six paid posts for Blogsvertise since February this year, with another awaiting approval and one more waiting for me to get organised and do it – tomorrow? You have a time limit for this jobs, and if you leave them too long you may miss out. Blogsvertise pay into you PayPal account monthly.

Once I had the ins and outs of the whole thing sorted out, I joined up with another site, Sponsored Reviews. This site has been where most of my blog jobs have come from. I have done six paid posts for this company and have two more on the way. The payment is in US$ and is paid fortnightly into my PayPay account.

The are rules and guidelines available, and it is well worth reading these. With this site, you can apply for jobs that look interesting, and then wait to see if you get the job. You also may receive jobs via email. With these jobs you can either accept or decline them, it is entirely up to you. You can put a price you are willing to accept, but you may still receive lower job offers. I have decided not to go below $10 now, but I did lower paid jobs to start with.

I love writing to a set theme, I love writing on all kinds of subjects, and I love getting money paid into my PayPal account without having to do anything difficult, or having to leave the house.

I have made the most money doing this that I have made doing anything  online, and I think everyone should give it a go. All you need is a blog that is at least three months old, with ten or more unique posts. It’s that simple.

Sounds like good advice to me!