Comments on: Taking Social Responsibility for Your Ads http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/28/taking-social-responsibility-for-your-ads/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:28:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert MacEwan http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/28/taking-social-responsibility-for-your-ads/comment-page-1/#comment-350770 Robert MacEwan Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:02:07 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/28/taking-social-responsibility-for-your-ads/#comment-350770 As Izea unrolls their new platform I appears more and more they've become a glorified splog community with pathetic screeners. As Izea unrolls their new platform I appears more and more they’ve become a glorified splog community with pathetic screeners.

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]]> By: KK aka Tina http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/28/taking-social-responsibility-for-your-ads/comment-page-1/#comment-273056 KK aka Tina Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:59:38 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/28/taking-social-responsibility-for-your-ads/#comment-273056 It believe that Michael Arrington's pride has been dented a bit because he didn't expect that Izea(payperpost) would grow this big thus he is giving Ted Murphy of Izea a really heck of a time. Having raised a venture capital of $10M in the past year, Izea seems to be the easiest target and was made as an example by Google. I have a post about it on how I as a Payperpost postie thinks about it: http://mygoodfinds.org/2007/11/25/discussion-on-izea-techcrunch/ But even before judging Izea, how is it different from other link farms? They will soon be implementing a no follow tag option and I don't think other link pimps will follow suit. It's just a matter of time when Google looks at PayU2Blog, Smorty, Reviewme and others who are selling links. If a blogger is paid directly by an advertiser to promote or review their product, just how different is that to going through a company? I see bloggers who are given free stuff, tickets, food and what-nots by companies. I don't hear such an uproar about it. The thing about it is most posties aren't big time bloggers and they are just trying to augment their family income with paid posts in their personal blogs. They are not full time pro-bloggers. There is a difference between endorsements and advertisements. We are just being paid to mention or make a review and NOT endorse. So I really find it this thing the-pots-calling- the-kettle-black kind of thing. But at least I can proudly say that I don't pay people to click my Google Adsense because my Adsense income is so paltry as compared to my PPP's even if majority of my readership are from countries who can afford to shop online. It believe that Michael Arrington’s pride has been dented a bit because he didn’t expect that Izea(payperpost) would grow this big thus he is giving Ted Murphy of Izea a really heck of a time. Having raised a venture capital of $10M in the past year, Izea seems to be the easiest target and was made as an example by Google.

I have a post about it on how I as a Payperpost postie thinks about it:
http://mygoodfinds.org/2007/11/25/discussion-on-izea-techcrunch/

But even before judging Izea, how is it different from other link farms? They will soon be implementing a no follow tag option and I don’t think other link pimps will follow suit. It’s just a matter of time when Google looks at PayU2Blog, Smorty, Reviewme and others who are selling links.

If a blogger is paid directly by an advertiser to promote or review their product, just how different is that to going through a company? I see bloggers who are given free stuff, tickets, food and what-nots by companies. I don’t hear such an uproar about it.

The thing about it is most posties aren’t big time bloggers and they are just trying to augment their family income with paid posts in their personal blogs. They are not full time pro-bloggers. There is a difference between endorsements and advertisements. We are just being paid to mention or make a review and NOT endorse.

So I really find it this thing the-pots-calling- the-kettle-black kind of thing.

But at least I can proudly say that I don’t pay people to click my Google Adsense because my Adsense income is so paltry as compared to my PPP’s even if majority of my readership are from countries who can afford to shop online.

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