I Need Discipline

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Charging To Remove Sponsored Links? Posted: 22 Jun 2012 04:08 PM PDT Since Google unleashed Panda & Penguin upon us (At this specific second I can not remember which one came first) I have received quite a few emails from people who I have done business within in the past by writing sponsored posts on this blog and my other smaller blogs. They have all asked me to remove the sponsored links that I inserted into posts on my blogs so that they can try and regain their footing in the Google SERPS again. Some have even asked me to delete the actual post completely. Now I can fully understand why they are doing this, and I appreciate that it must take them a long time to dig into the Google search results and painfully pick out all the blogs that were paid to display their links, but there is something else to think about here. If you complete these via a network like Sponsored Reviews or PayPerPost then when you sign up you are agreeing to keep the link(s) and post(s) on your blog(s) PERMINENTLY. That means you are not allowed to remove them. I received an email two months ago asking me to remove the links they had on my blog, I quickly did what they asked and thought nothing more as the post was over three years old. Within a day I had been contacted by the network I had got the gig through notifying me that they had spotted it and deducted the amount I was paid from it from my next scheduled payment. So I am now reluctant to just delete the links because it costs me money. Solution I was reading the excellent blog of Mark AKA Finance Dad and he hit upon a novel idea, charge them to remove the links. I'm not talking about holding them to ransom, just enough to cover the amount that the networks will take from me. I'm thinking about something like $10.00 per link. What do you guys think about this? Related Posts: LinkVehicle Pay Me, Well Kinda LinkVehicle are a sponsored post website that I joined sometime last year but I never received any offers from them so I sort of forgot about them until they contacted me last month, out of the blue, and told me they had an offer for me. Because they are a company ... Be Careful Of Unsolicited Link Requests Through Email I received an email two weeks ago from someone called Abbie who asked me if I would be interested in exchanging links with her. The deal would be that I put a link on this blog advertising her job web site and in return she would put a link advertising ... 19 Blog Review Networks Update: 24/11/11 Updated amounts earned & cleared up networks. Please note that due to me cleaning out the dead networks there may now not be 19. I received a couple of emails recently asking me to go into more details with the blog review networks that I have been part of. Well, ... Remove Broken Links From Your Blog Something that that is rather frustrating about running a blog is keeping an eye on links that have been either inserted into posts, or left in comments, because as we go along you'll find a lot of those domains have expired. So now you have a blog with hundreds and hundreds ... Random Sunday Ramblings #2 It was meant to be posted on Sunday but due to other commitments I have had to post it today. So just pretend that it still Sunday, you've slept in til noon, you've had a lovely big dinner and now you are snoozing in front of the telly with a ...

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