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thanks for trying to visit my blog. Unfortunately, I was just moving from blogger to a self hosted WP install. The site is up again, but I need to tweak it a bit, as I am not used to WP at all. One thing I want to do it to have the nofollow tag removed, as on your site.
On the traffic issue: yes, I know, I am working on it and I am starting to see some goos results. I have an average of 2 visitors per day, which I think is not too bad at all. I have a few strategies planned to improve that (like commenting on nice and interesting blogs like yours). I hope to double my score in 2 month from now!

I still think the ad posts could be so much more fun to write and read with every one coming up with more creative material…

thanks for stopping by and voicing your opinion Steven, hope to see you around here more often… tc and kit

I almost fell into the same trap you did - in my draft for the “I signed up for ppp” post, I linked to a couple of RT’s sponsored posts to show just how good sponsored posts can be. I figured that it would add value to the post for the advertiser (PPP). But the opportunity was fully reserved for a week and when it came up again, I had second thoughts and removed all links except for the one they asked for. I guess that’s safer.

Anyway, I think you should continue with sponsored posts. Some people will be worried by it, but then some will be worried by any sort of ads! If your normal content’s good enough, people will keep coming back even if there are some sponsored posts.

I plan to follow a similar set of guidelines to RT’s, making sure there are at least 4 non-sponsored posts between sponsored posts, only writing about topics that I feel comfortable writing about, only doing them if I’m allowed to disclose they are sponsored, etc. I think this will work well.

RT, I’m 9 years, 357 days younger than you (leaving leap years out of it)!

Pearl referred to you as a PRO, not me

In terms of years I’m close on behind ya - yes sir, no spring chicken any longer …….but from one ole fella to another, I do think you integrate your sponsored stuff really well, so here’s wishing you many, many more years of experience!

Theres no substitute for experience…. hope you have a great birthday you’ve got to tell us the date then…..

wait, don’t you have to wait for the approval before writing the reviews though? oh yeah, I should be able to write reviews of just about everything on the other blog (your ‘everything’ has a devilish sound to it :D) - would you be kind enough to mail me the urls pls?

I hope you get paid for all too… yep, pls keep us posted….

@Pearl: The “art” of sponsored posts is simply doing exactly what they ask for and nothing more. You can make the posts longer but not shorter, but the added text has to be relevant in some way. No extra video, links or anything like that unless they point to the sponsors site.

I wouldn’t worry too much about specific readers who are turned off by sponsored posts/paid reviews. For every ONE of them there are at least TWO who aren’t bothered by them in the least.

I wrote 11 reviews last month and I got only two approved so far. I’m curious if I’m going to get paid for all of them. I’ll keep you posted.

The photos on my blog are created with a camera, which costs money, not clicks. The same for lenses, memory cards, flash units and assorted accessories. The blog itself is on a server, that costs money.

It’s all the way you write the reviews. RT is a master. I’ve had no complaints from my readers, and some of the “sponsored” posts receive more comments than other articles.

While you may have a PR 4, Google will quickly smack you down for selling links. My Alexa and Technorati rating were the highest of my circle of blog friends. When the new rankings were released last week they were “granted” a 4 or 5, I was given a 2.

Ken: having a separate blog is a smart idea. This has been a learning experience though

For writing about such things, I set up a special blog about personal finance issues (not yet accepted by PPP, but I’ve got some assignments from SponsoredReviews.com).

No one complained really, the emails were more like friendly advice and I was glad they were vocal enough to alert me, ‘coz I’d have hated to lose any of my subscribers…

you are absolutely right, adsense or any of these other ads are mere distractors and haven’t made me any money so far… signing bonuses for some affiliates is better than what I have made with these! So, yes, they will all be gone as soon as I change themes…

thats a great point to not let the reviews sit there by themselves and have a rather good post immediately above it… I’d definitely make that a must if I continue with them…

hey, like I said, thank you so much for the support and sharing your views… take care and stay in touch…

thanks for stopping by to comment….. tc and kit

thanks for commenting Maurice… tc and kit

PS: ‘they’ meaning the advertisers rejected the post and when some readers showed concern, I had second thoughts!