You may have noticed that, in the tweaking of my site, all of the paid postings are gone. I applied to become a BlogHer advertiser and cannot do this while doing paid postings. I hadn’t done one in some months, so I suppose it is no great loss.
I loved the paid postings. I got anywhere from $5-20 to review a site or recommend a product. Since I never promoted anything I didn’t actually like or think could be truly useful, I had no guilt about the program. The program, however, really was too good to be true; they changed things around and I couldn’t find a decent product request for at least 2 months (they started to allow people to “reserve” posts even when they didn’t write them, which tied up the postings for days and sometimes weeks). So, I decided to move on.
I have never made much revenue on any of my sites, and I have to say I am a bit chagrined by this. Compare this to Marti, who started a blog he hardly ever writes in but who has already gotten one check from Google (there’s a $100 minimum before they cut you a check) and is working on another. At .01 per click (it varies), that’s 10,000 ad clicks or so on his site. My site has been up for over 3 years and I have yet to get a check. My dream in life has long been to be a writer, so the lack of success for my blog makes me cringe a little.
Anyway, despite my chronic lack of success in advertising, I have added an Amazon Associates link to my sidebar. I may periodically annoy you by putting something like this in my posts:
I do get a small percentage of Amazon items ordered through my site for this. I admit it; I am a hopeless capitalist. Anyway, I may be removing these once I am cleared for BlogHer; we’ll have to see. So, if you see things moving around even more, not to worry. In a few months the dust will settle and I will go back to my job of not making money blogging.
