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Me vs. Paid Blogging

Here’s something fun (and it’s not about LiveJournal for once; gasp).

So I’m sitting here hitting refresh non-stop on my email inbox, which is much more fun than data cleaning, when lo and behold I see I’ve gotten an email from someone purporting to be from a pay-per-post company asking me if I’d like to participate.

I say sounds interesting, give me some more info and asked how my blog was found.

Thank you for your interest in doing business with us. I found your blog through Google.

This is how blog post sponsorship works. We send you three (3) link codes, then you embed each link in a short post not less than one hundred fifty words (150). One post for each link. The posts need not be very intricate and will not necessarily be a review but the post must be original and must not copy any content from any site or from the link itself, rephrasing is acceptable. Hateful or rude comments about the link or keyword will be declined and please don

184 words posted 713 days ago at 10:06 pm.

This entry has 13 comments from Belinda, Jem, Dee, Vickie, Arwym Starlight. Tell Dee what you think?

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Written listening to The Last Shadow Puppets, "The Age of the Understatement".

Crossposted to loqia.insanejournal.com, loqia.journalfen.net.

13 Comments

  1. 713 days ago
    102 comments

    Belinda

    I recently got an offer from some dude who wanted to put paragraphs on my archived pages filled with “relevant” links in exchange for about $105US. The thing is, he wanted the links there PERMANENTLY, or if not, then at least 5 years. WTF, my blog has hardly been up for five years.

    • 713 days ago
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      Dee

      You could totally have been like, “Sure okay!”

      Then moved your blog. :P

      Though, uh, I suspect you could technically be found in breach of contract for that and sued. Technically.

  2. 713 days ago
    125 comments

    Jem

    I’ve never been asked to PPP but I recently got:
    “i will pay you something around $35 bucks to place a text ad (a few sentences) on your website.”

    Pfft. I could get 10 times that through digital point forums. Not to mention anyone who can’t read my ‘contact’ page doesn’t deserve to be advertised anyway. :P

    Ps. I just tried to update my password and I broke something. :|

    • 713 days ago
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      Dee

      I just tried to update my password and I broke something.

      Grr… I can see where the error is but I’m not sure what’s causing it…

      Can you get it to work now?

      • 713 days ago
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        Jem

        “Existing password does not match password stored in the database.”

        Interestingly, I think it updated the password when I asked it to despite giving the error, because I used Show Passwords in the web dev toolbar and it displays my updated one in the field.

        I might actually be able to log in at work now, hehe.

        • 713 days ago
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          Dee

          Very weird. o_O

          Incidentally, if a password is being autofilled, it’s coming from your browser, not the site (I store hashes).

          • 712 days ago
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            Jem

            Yeah, I wasn’t sure about that because Firefox does weird things with my passwords sometimes :|

            I’m guessing Firefox has updated my password in the browser but not the script and that’s why it said passwords don’t match because I just tried to log in and it rejected me.

            Ah well, will try again later.

            • 712 days ago
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              Dee

              I can’t remember if I ever got around to writing the password reset feature or not…

              If I didn’t, do you want me to manually reset your password in the DB? (Or write the reset, depending on how lazy I’m feeling today at work. :P )

  3. 712 days ago
    25 comments

    Vickie

    I, uhm, apologise on behalf of my blogroll? Coincidentally, a real-life friend of mine very recently discovered PPP and thought he found a no-effort money-making paradise. So I told him, “Kiddo, how about we go farm in real life instead?” Only to remember that laypeople call farming “getting a job”. How uncool is that?

    Anyway, the point is… Oh! “Hatemail and Death Threats”? How could I not discover this earlier? I’m sending one.

    Also, I may or may not be high on caffeine.

    • 712 days ago
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      Dee

      Haha, it’s hardly your fault. XD

      “Hatemail and Death Threats”?

      I like to give people a full range of options. :P

  4. 709 days ago
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    Arwym Starlight

    This is not exactly the case here, but…
    Once I was asked to advertise a blog at an old personal “journal” I had, for free… By someone I didn’t even know. The thing is that the blog was advertising a book or similar product. I was asked, just like that. >.> Even if they were offering me money, I don’t think I’d use my personal place on the internet for such things.
    These things really disgust me sometimes.

    • 709 days ago
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      Dee

      Yeah, I guess to be in marketing you’ve gotta go hard to promote your products. It’s still pretty slimy, though. D:

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