{"id":7298,"date":"2011-02-22T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=7298"},"modified":"2012-04-17T07:04:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:04:56","slug":"make-money-from-your-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/make-money-from-your-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Make money from your blog"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Updating my blog | Photo by Jonathan Blundell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I doubt it’s a secret, but I would love to be able to blog\/podcast full-time (here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a> or even here<\/a>) if I could, or at least add a decent supplement to my regular income (click the “stuff I like<\/a>” page up top to find some ways you can do that – hint, hint).<\/p>\n

And from time to time, I receive random offers to advertise this or that product on my blog for various amounts of lengths of time and money.<\/p>\n

Most of the time I trash the offers (solely based on the e-mail or the type of product they want to sell), but depending on the offer, I may take the time to actually investigate the offer and respond.
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\nLate last week I received a fairly nice offer, for an ad to be placed on one of my blog posts for one year. It was for a company I’ve done business with in the past. So naturally, I decided to investigate the offer further.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, the ad would be a text-based link for the advertising and would likely show as if it was just a natural link I included in my post originally.<\/p>\n

So for instance, I might add a sentence like so…<\/p>\n

Once upon a time, I Red Foxes<\/a> ruled the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or, it might simply be a very simple link like:<\/p>\n

Red Foxes<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

at the bottom of the post.<\/p>\n

And I would get a check for the link (Red Foxes) back to the advertiser.<\/p>\n

The only problem is, I’m not a fan of the company. They gave my shoddy customer service the few times I worked with them, and I’d hate for people to get the impression I recommended or supported using the company.<\/p>\n

So I turned them down.<\/p>\n

As I’ve suggested before, I’ve made an effort to cut down on the advertising on my sites — and try to only advertise for products I use regularly and\/or can highly recommend.<\/p>\n

(Which is why I took Google AdSense ads off most of my sites and RSS feeds since I have no real control<\/a> over what’s being advertised.)<\/p>\n

So… was it a good decision or not? <\/strong><\/p>\n

As a reader do you even care if a blogger stands behind the products being advertised on his site?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a blogger, does it make a difference which ads are displayed on your site? Does it make a difference how much the advertiser is willing to pay?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I doubt it’s a secret, but I would love to be able to blog\/podcast full-time (here, here, here or even here) if I could, or at least add a decent supplement to my regular income (click the “stuff I like” page up top to find some ways you can do that – hint, hint). And … Continue reading Make money from your blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4034,4035,2165,1408,4033,4032,2733,4031,522,4036,969],"class_list":["post-7298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-advertisers","tag-affiliate-programs","tag-bloggers","tag-blogging","tag-earn-money","tag-google-adsense","tag-how-to","tag-make-money-online","tag-money","tag-seo","tag-traffic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1TI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}