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As a reader of your blog for some time now, I'd like to ask you several questions about your current project of writing several commercials a day to earn money.
#1. How do you chose which sites to promote under your PPP tag? Things you find cool? Useful? Interesting? Unusual? Testimonials from other people?
#2. Do you fully endorse each site? That is, do you use these sites yourself, or think they might be helpful to others? For example, the dating site you pimped yesterday. I know from previous entries that you are married to Matt, and he was your first boyfriend, and you met through your sister. Have you ever used an online dating service? If not, how then am I to trust that JustSayHi is a good way to meet a significant other? Because it's free? Because you who may not have even used a similar service, say so? The reason many dating sites require a fee and a background check is so that people who are truly looking for a mate meet someone who is who he says he is. It's a form of protection. As you very well know, people in real life are not often who they seem online. Would you stand by this service if a friend used it? You say it is "new" - how do you know it's good?
#3. How, in your mind, is the process of writing awkward marketing copy (there's a trick to writing catchy language to sell a product, and I don't think you're there yet - the poker "story" and transition rang especially false) in between tales of your job and your novel and your knitting better than adverts on the side of your site? I personally find it MORE annoying.
#4. I thought the point of your knitting blog was to separate your earning potential from your writing and your life stories. This blog isn't yours anymore - it's whatever link you're pushing at the time. Your choice, your journal, but it seems to contradict what you wrote recently. I was curious about the change.
This isn't meant as an attack, although I understand that you may see it that way. This is your space and your decision. I just wanted to share my opinion.
1 - I look at the bottom line. How much the ad pays, whether its restrictions and requirements are too obnoxious to bother posting (although some days there's not much to choose from, hence the dating ad). If I think it's cool and can tie it in to something personal, great, but if not, well, I make it pretty clear in each ad post that it is, in fact, an ad.
2 - I provide a link and info. If it's something that interests you, you can click on it. If it's not, then don't. No, every ad is not an endorsement, and they don't all tie in to my personal life.
3 - They pay more. A LOT more. A LOT a lot more. If they annoy you, you're free to skip over them, or even, y'know, unscribe from the blog.
4 - Yes, the knitting blog was established in an attempt to generate some Adsense and affiliate revenue, but in the two or three weeks its been live it has about three visitors a day and has thus far netted me a grand total of zilch. While my current job pays much better than any other job I've had before, it's still a glorified secretarial job, so it's not like I'm raking in a huge salary. Plus I'm now the sole earner of my household while I put my husband through college. He has a chronic illness and a disability and, well, there are medical bills. As I read your comments I'm taking a break from staring at our monthly budget and wondering how I can juggle the bills to squeeze a few more dollars out for groceries. I'm praying that his financial aide will come through so we don't have to figure out how to pay all of his tuition out of pocket and he'll be able to keep going. Things are tight. This is allowing us to loosen our belts and breathe a little easier. I'm sorry you find it annoying.
I appreciate your taking the time to share your opinion, but as you say, my blog, my decision, and nobody's forcing you to keep reading.
Addendum to #4: Also, the knitting blog's too new to be eligible to participate in PPP. Once it's been around long enough to qualify, there's a good chance I'll move the PPP ads over there. Nothing's set in stone.
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