Ask anybody, "What is the easiest way of making money online?".
Most would reply instantly "Blogging!".
Perhaps they are right to some extent, though I beg to differ.
But why they say so! It is because of the sponsored posts that you can write if you have a decent blog.
No doubt, you will get some handy quick bucks.
Traditional sites don't offer you this opportunity.
But there is a big debate going on whether writing paid blog posts hampers your SEO.
So before you get indulged into writing lets clarify a few things.
Perhaps most of you know that it is against Google's guidelines that you buy or sell links.
But there is something more you need to know.
According to Google you can buy or sell links for advertising purposes.
Internet is the biggest market after all.
But you cannot manipulate search engine results through it.
So you have to notify search engine that these links are paid links so that they can exclude it from counting as votes in determining PR.
You can do it using following ways: -Adding a rel="nofollow" attribute -Redirecting the links to an intermediate page that is blocked from search engines with a robots.
txt file But can you find out a single pay per post network that would allow you to declare advertiser's links as dofollow? No, you can't.
Companies like PayPerPost, BuyBlogReviews need you to add explicit disclosure codes or tracking codes when you write paid posts.
These codes help Google to find out that you have written a paid post.
But they also find out that the links in it are dofollow.
That is why they penalize you by removing you PR & degrading your search engine positions.
Other networks like Smorty or SnapBomb doesn't require such codes.
There is no way to find that it is a sponsored post.
But again remember one thing.
If you write too many irrelevant paid posts, it will surely irritate your regular readers & subscribers.
They are the backbone of your blog.
If they leave you, then you have a big problem.
Now you can see why it hurts SEO & if you write them recklessly after sometime you will go nowhere.
Now it is up to you.
Most would reply instantly "Blogging!".
Perhaps they are right to some extent, though I beg to differ.
But why they say so! It is because of the sponsored posts that you can write if you have a decent blog.
No doubt, you will get some handy quick bucks.
Traditional sites don't offer you this opportunity.
But there is a big debate going on whether writing paid blog posts hampers your SEO.
So before you get indulged into writing lets clarify a few things.
Perhaps most of you know that it is against Google's guidelines that you buy or sell links.
But there is something more you need to know.
According to Google you can buy or sell links for advertising purposes.
Internet is the biggest market after all.
But you cannot manipulate search engine results through it.
So you have to notify search engine that these links are paid links so that they can exclude it from counting as votes in determining PR.
You can do it using following ways: -Adding a rel="nofollow" attribute -Redirecting the links to an intermediate page that is blocked from search engines with a robots.
txt file But can you find out a single pay per post network that would allow you to declare advertiser's links as dofollow? No, you can't.
Companies like PayPerPost, BuyBlogReviews need you to add explicit disclosure codes or tracking codes when you write paid posts.
These codes help Google to find out that you have written a paid post.
But they also find out that the links in it are dofollow.
That is why they penalize you by removing you PR & degrading your search engine positions.
Other networks like Smorty or SnapBomb doesn't require such codes.
There is no way to find that it is a sponsored post.
But again remember one thing.
If you write too many irrelevant paid posts, it will surely irritate your regular readers & subscribers.
They are the backbone of your blog.
If they leave you, then you have a big problem.
Now you can see why it hurts SEO & if you write them recklessly after sometime you will go nowhere.
Now it is up to you.