My thoughts on permanent text ads
I have been getting numerous different offers lately to place text links on several of my blogs in the form of a post. The content of the proposed ads would not be completely mine. The advertiser would write the ads. In this instance I would have been allowed to change text in the ads but not the keywords or do follow links. I am not interested in having someone else’s words on my blog, but that’s not what this post is about. This post is about the money.
When I got the first offer I was excited. When I considered the offer I realized accepting it didn’t make sense financially . I turned that offer, and numerous others, down. I now have a blurb in my advertising that states I am not interested in permanent ads or anything anyone else has written. Are you wondering why? I’ll tell you.
Let’s use an offer of $70 for 8 links as my example. Immediately my mind divides and understands I am being offered $8.75 for each link. Then I look at the length of time the advertiser wants the ad to run. In this case it is not for a finite period of time but forever. If it were a year it would come out to $0.17 per week. For forever I’d be giving it away, which I have no interest in doing. I don’t need short term money that badly. I do free posts for myself already, I wouldn’t do them for someone I didn’t know.
It doesn’t make good business sense to accept offers to place these permanent text links in my opinion. Do you agree or disagree? I’d love to hear some constructive feedback and thoughts on this subject from other bloggers.
March 15th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
I guess that I figure it is money I didn’t have before. Seventeen cents is seventeen cents. I need to become more selective and demand better pay. I could buy that expensive sewing machine I drooled over today if I made more money.