Blog Tipz

Each day, bloggers face a lot of temptation, ranging from “great” sponsorships, more spam email, and personal attacks that may influence how they respond to comments in the future. Temptation is a part of our daily life, and you need to know how to deal with it and when the right time is to “give in” to this evil.

Let’s start off with the various forms of temptation:

• Email – scam, offers, (fake) advertising deals
• Comments – spam, comments that are negative or affect how you perform
• Posts – people influencing your opinion

When you step back and look at the bigger picture, these incentives, whether they have been created by real people or are generated by bots, can determine how we respond to others and how we judge an offer as legitimate or worthy. It is up to you, for the most part, to determine those.

Blog sponsorships often begin with someone emailing you a price (often ridiculously high) and you responding to them due to the potential earnings. This is something that you should never do. It it at this step that many people loose ten times more than they were hoping to gain. A type of offer that you should particularly avoid are “buyouts” in which the emailer claims to want to purchase your blog or “value” your website.

The main way to combat this is by setting up filters and monitoring partners that have emailed you in the past – they probably won’t send you this type of email unless a new company or owner takes control (especially true for smaller, single-owner operations). Make sure that you avoid email that appears suspicious, otherwise you will be influenced by these ill-conceived promotions.

Why You Want to Avoid These

There are a few key reasons why you don’t want to “give in to temptation.”

1. Most of these offers will turn out to be scams, and you won’t really gain anything from them – you’ll lose both time and money.
2. Your blog will be put on hold while you try working with these con artists who are really trying to rip you off.
3. Everything is “too good to be true,” especially when you look at the general outcome of these offers/promotions.

Key Ideas

If you want to save money or be contacted by someone to work out an advertising deal, be sure that you know who you are talking to. Check to ensure that everything is from the right IP addresses, email addresses, and names. Otherwise, you could be dealing with someone who is pretending to be someone you may know, but in reality, it isn’t.

Stick with organizations and companies that are legitimate and have been around for quite a few years. Don’t think that just because you are supporting a smaller organization that you are doing a good thing. These people may be just a devious as larger companies or other businesses looking to profit from you.