Bloggers Obsessed with Paid Postings: Alternatives to Increasing Your Blog Revenue

OK I'll have to admit that over a year ago I jumped into this paid blogging thing; initially I had my doubts, because blogging wasn't paying that much to begin with and I figured that I did not stand to loose face because few individuals were reading my blog to begin with. I started out with one of the more popular paid blogging outfits and took some assignments that only required that I mention the product within a post of a certain length and the requirements for them to do business with me is that my blog had to have been in existence for a while and already contain a good number of posts to begin with. I had been blogging for a few years by this point, so I met those criteria, now all that was required of me was to keep those paid posts that I was writing up for a bit, and then, given that the posts still met the initial criteria, I would receive payment for my work.

At first the money didn't amount to much, but I went back repeatedly throughout the day and looked for new opportunities to write about, which I almost always did, and, as they had originally stated, after that given time period the money was deposited into my account. Life was good, there was always work available to me, and I could always rely on my assignments to assist me with making a nice amount of money each week. Time passed on, the work began to disappear and the requirements started to change and I began to realize that of the overwhelming majority of the assignments out there, my blog rarely qualified for any of them. This was good for the marketing outfit, I would imagine, but not so good for me, or other bloggers were caught up in this thing and began to expect that a certain amount of ad revenue would be theirs for the taking through assignments where marketers were willing to pay up front for promotion, in exchange for the exposure that a blogger could bring to them.