Is it wise to approach bloggers and have them write an article about your site, if you pay them a few bucks? Or is it not worth the backlink?
It's good, but works only if you get reviewed by quality blogs, i.e. that have sufficient traffic, and quality content!
it would work only if the blogger is popular and have many followers, as whatever he would write would be considered valuable and read by everyone.
It can be difficult, especially if you are approaching guys who have never been approached by a sponsor before. A review can probably be done, but they might take exception to a suggestion regarding a shameless plug which has a link pointing to your site. Again the review posted may not be positive, and some bloggers will want to reveal that the post is sponsored, something that may or may not go down well with you.
offer an exchange perhaps? You blog about his site, give him a link. He blogs about yours, gives you a link. If I were approached that way I'd respond in kind. Especially if it were free.
I think the website is ReviewMe.com where you can pay through there website and pick the blogger you want to review your website or product. I run a media company in which we have a few blogs and we get so much stuff thrown at us to review we end up reviewing the cool stuff without even any money exchanging hands. If you have a great product or website where you can give the blogger a free product or subscription to a part of the website then they may blog about it.
I've been approached by people asking if I'd mention them in a post if they mentioned me. I took one offer up, the rest I didn't even bother to reply too. If they offered me money, that could change thing. It does not hurt to ask, especially if your site IS worth talking about. And heh, money would certainly get me to look at whether or not it was worthy (but a crap site, you'd likely not be able to afford to even get on my livejournal).
I realize that the more high-ranking the blog the better, but isn't a backlink a backlink, especially if its within content (an article)?
I think it is a great idea. Most bloggers are looking for extra earnings and unless it is something that is not an acceptable topic, many will accept your offer. just be aware that they may suspect you are a scam. Also remember that the more popular the blog, the more you will have to pay.
Great point... I'd likely be less inclined to pitch a sales page unless I've actually bought something from it. Though for simple site promotion I'd certainly consider it... even if that site pointed to other sales pages.
A lot of bloggers would readily review your site if you pay them a decent amount, what matters is you don't pay to blogs that are built just to get this kind of revenue.
Getting blogs to promote your sites is a good idea. A better idea is to own the blogs yourslef. That way, you don't have to keep paying, and you can make them say *exactly* what you want. This is called 'autoblogging'. In a month, you can create HUNDREDS of blogs, all happily promoting your sites automatically, and all looking to Google etc exactly like real human-edited blogs. Best thing - no hosting costs, no domian name registration costs, no copywriting costs.
never never go for autoblogging its useless and I would say it is better to create a blog and write unique post via bloggers and check all content in duplicate content tools.
Ya, I agree! The content of your blog should be unique! It carries more weightage! With auto-blogging, Google does get to know that they are not real!
oh no 'they' don't. It depends what you use to create them. In exactly the same way that if you hire non-english speaking illiterates, you won't get great content (no offense). If you use cheap software, you'll get rubbish blogs. BUT... if you use the right software, the results can be... how shall I say... lucrative. The following 2 links are autoblogs. No human editing. Most of you will only be able to tell they are machine-generated because I just told you. There are people who now have THOUSANDS of these. All happily adding content each day, all pumping backlinks and PR to whatever their real sites are. Google actually LOVES these sites, and we know that because although blogger autoblogs occassionally trip the blogger spam filters (putting words like 'mesothelioma' in the blog title is a good way to do that, or perhaps 'stock-trading'), they ALWAYS get re-enabled if you fill in the captcha form to request a human review. So Google's own human reviewers can't tell they are machine generated. Go figure. http://mesothelioma.contentboss.com http://creditcards.contentboss.com
No you haven't, no you didn't, and no they don't. BTW, no offense intended, but the 2 machine-generated blogs I mention above look better to my eye than your hand written effort you promote as 'earn money thru writing'.
I'm not trying to make some comparison with your software and my un-updated blog. I am just stating my experience and no offense whatsoever. I understand because you are selling them and that you must state your case. Peace bro.