Over a month ago, I wrote about blogging for cash and polled our readers about this issue. An overwhelming 70%+ said, “Yes – definitely! Show me the money and I’ll blog.” No questions about disclosures and blogging ethics, etc.
And recently, The Boston Globe raised this issue again – about bloggers who’re willing to blog about a product, service or company for a fee, without full disclosures.
Jeff Cutler was quoted saying:
”People should be trained to take what they read with a grain of salt,” said Cutler, 40, who also was paid to promote credit cards and car insurance on his blog, www.jeffcutler.com. ”A person is not spending their time to throw something up on the Internet unless they have an objective or an ulterior motive. For me, it was making a few bucks and disciplining my writing.”
On another note, if you’re wondering how much top bloggers really make with their weblogs, this nypost article says:
While Matt Drudge brags he makes close to seven figures from his drudgereport.com, even the little-known, academically-inclined Jim Romenesko is making serious coin from the Poynter Institute in Tampa, Fla. According to the rival newsblues.com Web site, “haughty media blogger” Romenesko is paid $170,000 a year, which works out to $680 a day (figuring 250 work days annually). The tabloid-detesting Romenesko wouldn’t confirm or deny the number, but told us: “Money is deposited into my checking account every other week, and I’m happy for that.”
Pretty serious cash coming from blogging, don’t you think?
Pointer from BloggersBlog.com.
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