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This is a guest post by Mike White of Saphrym.com. This is the first guest post for Blogtomic. Thanks, Mike glad to have your input here. If you like the post make sure to go over and check out his site.

I’ve been seeing a disturbing trend throughout the blogosphere. As I roam from blog to blog looking for good posts to write about, I keep seeing the same stuff over and over. What I mean is there are several blogs that are in the same affiliate networks or paid to post systems and it’s very easy to tell. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen Qassia with affiliate links or NeverBlueAds with affiliate links. What about those ads for Smiley Central? All over the place. Bidvertiser, Review Me, and the list keeps going and going.

Do you want your readers to take you seriously? Then write REAL content. Even the guys over at Izea will tell you that to make every post or even every other post a “paid” post will just cause you to lose your readers. I’m not against them. I’m in all the same affiliate programs too. But at least spread them out. Get in the habit of making at least 4 or 5 posts that are NOT paid between doing the posts that are paid.

“But Mike! That means I’d only be doing a paid post about once a month!”

What? You only write on your blog once a week and then make it a paid post? Come on guys. Seriously. Update your blog more often and write real content and people will start swarming to your site. Then when you post an affiliate post, there’s more likely a chance that people will trust you enough to click the link and sign up.

This is the rule: “Content first. Readers second. Monetization third.”

That’s the order you have to use when you want to create a web site that will be viewed honestly and that will last for a long time to come.

Written by Mike White of Saphrym.com

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