Michael Koby

PayPerPost, is an advertising network that has a small twist. Instead of putting ads on your website or blog, PayPerPost works to “hire” you to write about a product, website, or service for an advertiser. Thus making your posts little sales pitches (in an ideal world). A nice way for a blogger to make some cash.

However, there seems to be this idea among the blogsphere that being paid to write about something is, for lack of a better word, taboo. The idea that a blogger would take money to write about something is, to most people, atrocious. But I fail to understand why this idea has perpetuated throughout the internet. People get paid to write and talk about stuff all the time, why should bloggers be left out? Talk radio people are paid to say certain things on the air, magazine editors largely edit their content to help their advertisers, and news programs talk about stuff all the time.

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