Paid Post Debate
You Should Be Reading: Codehappy
Thanks you for visiting. Please consider subscribing to the RSS feed.I just discovered Peter Wright’s blog. Peter is the Director of Coding Stuff at PPP, or, as his business card reads, Vice President of Software Development. He states that CodeHappy is his personal blog and represents his personal thoughts.
Peter vented a bit about his frustration […]
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Is Google biting off more than it can chew?
With regard to paid posts, Jeff Jarvis at Buzzmachine.com left the following comment several weeks ago:
…This is about SEO, folks. It’s not about people reading and trusting PPP bloggers. It’s about Google seeing the links…
The vast majority of bloggers I know are in willing violation of Google’s policies with regards to linking.
When we all […]
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Mashable fears paid blogger posts
Stan Schroeder writes at Mashable:
Paid blogger posts
PayPerPost
What is it?
Companies like PayPerPost and ReviewMe have established marketplaces for paid blog posts. If you’re an advertiser, you request a paid post from a blogger, based on the price that depends on the popularity of the blog. If you’re a blogger, you can take on this offer, and […]
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OH, the hypocrisy!
What the heck were you people doing while I was gone?
First, I’m going to talk about me: Last week was spent with my wife, who was recovering from surgery. First things first, you know? Family always comes before blogging. Then, I managed to put myself in the position of needing help walking.
So, just catching up […]
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The Paid-Post Debate: Jeff Jarvis vs. Dan Rua
Last week, I wrote an post examining the Forbes article about PayPerPost. In so doing, I found that one of PayPerpost’s critics, Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine.com, was an investor in a competing service in the video segment of this industry, something that Dan Rua, one of PayPerpost’s investors decried as hypocrisy.
This argument/pissing match continued in […]
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MarketingVOX gets it wrong, too.
MarketingVOX posted the news about PPP receiving $7M additional VC funding, but managed to get in an incorrect assertion when it said that PPP has received criticism because of
“Its seeming violation of the trust between blogger and reader - trust based on transparency and openness…”
See, that’s just the thing: PPP requires disclosure by its bloggers. […]
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Alternate Futures: What Does The Future Hold For Sponsored Posts?
Scott at Publishing 2.0 had an interesting post about sponsored posts today. He’s considering using a business model similar to paidcontent.org, where they post an article written by an advertiser, not a blogger, to monetize the website while retaining editorial integrity.
Interesting.
This works for paidcontent.org because their model allows the traffic manager to make the post […]
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The Paid-Post Debate: Journalists Have More Credibility Than Bloggers (depending)
Forbes just published an article about PayPerPost, and got their facts screwed up. Go figure. But, that’s what happens when you have reporters working for free.
What? They don’t? Oh…. my bad.
Where shall I start?
What so enrages the masses online is that the soft sell is often concealed, disguised as an independent product or service review.
Untrue. […]
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Paid-Posts vs. Paid Representation: Is there a difference?
Earlier this week, Wil Wheaton posted asking his readers to vote for him at the Blogger’s Choice Awards (BCA), since it was ticking him off that the barely-literate Rosie O’Donnell was trouncing him. Later in the day, he posted a criticism of the BCA and PayPerPost, saying he didn’t realize the BCA was sponsored by […]
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The Great Blogola Debate
The Wall Street Journal had an article examining what they call "Blogola" in relation to companies paying bloggers for coverage on May 15.
Anyone who thinks there is a Chinese Wall between the business side and journalism side of traditional media is profoundly retarded.
Back already?
If you didn’t read it all the way through, I’ll summarize: Bloggers, […]
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