May
10
I gather that there are a lot of opinion on this from the PayPerPost forum. According to a forum thread, 88% of posties do not delete their paid posts after 30 days.
There are a few options as to what you can do to your expired sponsored posts. You may:
leave them as they are. Some posties do not delete their paid posts because they’ve invested a lot of time and thoughts into writing them. Some posties (myself included) do not delete them because to them, these paid posts are part of their blog content, part of what they’d write whether or not those posts were paid. I mean, if you were going to delete those paid posts for ANY reason at all, why did you take it in the first place? Because it paid well? In my opinion, a post that isn’t worth keeping on your site after 30 days, isn’t worth writing in the first place.- move them to a separate page. Plain Jane Mom does this. She copied and pasted all her expired sponsored posts onto a new “Sponsored” page marked with “nofollow” and “no index” for search engines, because to her, “paid posts were 30 days of premium advertising on my site.”
- delete them as soon as they reach 30 days old. Posties who delete their paid posts believe that advertisers paid for a 30-day session exposure on the posties’ blogs. For example, according to Carol, the time, thought, and creativity she puts into each paid post is commensurate with how much she was paid for it and that she views it as a contract. Some posties, on the other hand, delete their paid posts because they do not want to be associated with the paid content after 30 days. And some posties delete expired paid posts because “the advertisers banned them”.
Now, back to the question, what do you do with your expired paid posts? And WHY?
And if you don’t write sponsored posts, what do you think? Should the expired sponsored posts be deleted or left alone? Why?
* No la, this ISN’T a sponsored post la.
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i dunno wor…i only have 1 paid post thats 30 days old so what should i do ah, aunty pelf?
i’d just leave it. i dont see why i need to put them in another folder/category coz whatever or wherever i put it, it’s still IN my blog. i would just leave them where there are.
what are YOU planning to do?
well, i have no idea what a sponsored post is but anyway, since it is something that you have written, why waste effort on deleting / moving the post?
Wuching: OI! I’m a sweet-young-thing, don’t call me Auntie. Go call 5xmom Auntie instead, go, go, go! Kkekke
Yvy: I leave mine on my blog as well (I mentioned this in the post, my dear), plus, I’m REALLY strict when it comes to writing paid posts these days. Haven’t you noticed?
ColourfulWorld: I’m surprised you don’t know what a sponsored/paid post is, considering the fact that you have PPP buttons plastered all over your blog..
Disclaimer: I don’t do paid posts.
That said, I think I like what PJM does, with the whole “No Follow” thing. First off, if I were to write paid posts, I would make a section for them on the site, calling it “Advertisements.” Likely, I’d leave the posts up (I rarely ever delete posts), but do a “nofollow” on any links within the article itself (after the 30 days) or simply remove all links. This way I still get the Search Engine benefit of having the content (more key words = more exposure), I give the payer the benefit of having their name out there (sort of) and I can show future advertisers what I can do for them, if instead of doing PPP I decide to market directly. (For example, if my blog becomes popular in Miami, why do I need to to PPP when I can find advertisers right around town?)
I thought most of them stated that the post have to remain there permanently and will get banned if it is removed?
I leave mine there as well, why remove it? It helps in SEO hahaha… Summore if delete it, then I’m going to mess my database coz every post has a unique ID. Summore every 30 days have to go do “No Follow” is so much trouble. Besides, I’m putting them in a category. Well, maybe we are Malaysians and we don’t really care about the 30 days things like they are paying you for 30 days existance in your blog. We are not that “leceh”
I mean it should be “cerewet” LOL need to brush up my BM
Gnorb: You do have your point. And PJM too. Perhaps I should also adopt that method — leave the posts intact but remove the unnecessary links.
Jason: I’m not sure about this, but can you help me confirm it?
Irene: Actually, I don’t really know what’s “No Follow” and how to “implement” it, hhaha
To be honest I’ve never really thought about it before. So far I’ve been leaving them as they are. I hadn’t really thought about the whole ‘only being paid for thirty days’ thing really. I’m the sort that tends to feel that if I wrote it and took the time on it I should leave it. I wonder about going back and just deleting the links and leaving the text but I barely have time to keep up with everything else right now…
aiyak…must have missed that bit. heh. like u, i dont know how to implement the ‘no follow’ link either…what happens anyway? o well….i think if i leave oso, nothing wrong la.
o, one more thing….what i do notice is that your PP are normally VERY indepth, which is good - is that what u consider ’strict’?
When Google sees the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when they rank websites in their search results. So if an advertiser would like to increase their ranking, if you put nofollow, it will not have effect on their ranking which is why in some opps the advertisers didn’t want you to use that coz they want their ranking.
So I guess, you help them get ranking for 30 days, then after that don’t help them anymore
if you add no follow in your anchor tag/link.
Ami-chan: I wouldn’t have thought about it if I didn’t come across that poll on the PPP forum either!
Yvy: Well, I try my best to provide an in-depth review, but most of all, the paid posts that I choose to write must be relevant (that’s why I don’t do drug rehab and UK loan opps) and all information that I provide must be accurate. In other words, I must try it out before recommending it to anybody. That’s how it should be done in the first place, no?
Irene: Thanks for the explanation
Wow, you pulled that from a relatively old PPP board topic, LOL!
I mean, if you were going to delete those paid posts for ANY reason at all, why did you take it in the first place? Because it paid well? In my opinion, a post that isn’t worth keeping on your site after 30 days, isn’t worth writing in the first place.
I pick and choose. As I had said before I view it as a contract. I’ve been a paid writer for long enough - I’m not going to get my panties in a bunch over deleting a 100 word post about a coupon site, for instance. I mean really - how much heart and soul are you going to put into something like that?
I thought most of them stated that the post have to remain there permanently and will get banned if it is removed?
I’ve never seen that in any opp I’ve clicked on, but I supposed some advertisers might view it that way. And just for the record — I have never recieved a ban and have only recieved 5-star reviews, so the people I’ve taken ads from don’t seem to care. And I seriously doubt they’re going back 40, 60, 100 days later checking for links. Of course I could be wrong and I probably am in some instances.
I don’t delete because as you said, it’s part of my blog. And besides deleting them is too much work. I do however, change the style of the paid posts after 30 days to look more similar to the banner ads in my blog. It’s automated so I don’t have to do extra work.
Carol: Fair enough
aylee: I wonder, how do you “change the style of the paid posts after 30 days to look more similar to the banner ads in your blog”?
You can add a conditional statement to the template… if post is >30 days old and under Sponsored Post category, add another div class. Then in the CSS file, you can specify the style of that div class.
aylee: OK, thanks, though I don’t know what you’re talking about, LOL.