Probaby done with paid posting

You know how sometimes you know you’re in the wrong place because of the company you’re surrounded by? It’s like that with paid posting.

Don’t get me wrong — I’ve had some fun experimenting, and it’s kind of fascinating what people will pay for. And, while most of my close friends don’t care whether I throw in a paid post now and then, I’ve watched my readership drop from 100 hits a day to between 20-40 hits a day, which is a big loss. Clearly, paid posting doesn’t impress the occasional visitor.

But, the funny thing is this — I was featured as Postie of the day a few days ago, and I got a lot of new visitors. So, I myself have been checking out the featured website at Pay Per Post, to see who else is out there, but I keep finding that those paid posters are, well, for lack of better words — awful. And I think, is my site on the way to being that bad?

I mean, I don’t think I’m the world’s best writer but writing is the whole reason I started this blog. If you look at early, early posts, I actually wanted to post chapters of a book I was writing as I completed each chapter. I later abandoned that plan, primarily because a single chapter could take up multiple screens and not even my mother would read that much. Still, I kept writing because it was a way to be published without, you know, being published.

Anyway, I check out these paid blogs and honestly, they are just one step up from spam. I have a pretty highly ranked site so I get some of the better opportunities, but I sense that my site is quickly losing its ranking. So, I think I’m done.

I’m relegating paid posting to my anonymous financial blog because hey — it’s all about money anyway. So, now you can look forward to my usual boring fare of poop stories and vapid photos of my children. In fact, I would never dream of inserting this photo of the Hello Kitty vibrator here.

Or here.

And I especially wouldn’t dream of pasting these pictures of Badz-maru condoms here.

Photos stolen from here.

Oh, and just for the record, those people who gave me a hard time about paid posting? I still hate you.

P.S. The translations for the condoms are amusing.
From top left: “Iku (Go)”
Top Right: “For a lover.”
Bottom Left: “It looks good if you do it like this” (blowing condom into a balloon)
Bottom Right: “Anzenda” which I think means “A Zero,” but I’ll have to check it.

Iku, by the way, is a sexual innuendo — what “come” is to English, “go” is to Japanese, if you get my drift (Don’t you love Badzmaru’s very determined look on this one?). I think Anzenda is another kind of innuendo but I’ll have to do a little research into it.

By the way, thanks to Seth for having an interest in Japanese skebe manga, the reading and translating of which taught me an enormous amount of worthless slang. It also, incidentally, allowed me to make real jokes in Japanese which in turn helped me to finally make friends. If I haven’t said it already, thanks for being such a perv, Seth. Who knows how my Japanese experience might have turned out without you.