When I first started this blog, I set to display seven recent posts on the homepage. Soon after, I adjusted it to display ten of my most recent posts. However, I find myself publishing about ten posts daily and I am wondering what value I am giving to my sponsors.

How many posts do you think is appropriated for me to render on the homepage? With my Blogger blog, I have set it to display seven DAYS of posts. You know, I publish anything from ten to sixteen posts over there daily, on a good day, so you can imagine the long page that my homepage has become. Over there, I am thinking if I should put five days only.

I know I am over thinking but would really appreciate some input. Some people may think that it is too difficult to scroll down, but in my case, my blogroll is not that long but the page will be long if I were to display fifteen posts, for example.

Some people are saying it is easy, I am saying it is NOT as easy as they thought! It is not easy if:

1. you run multiple blogs, particularly niche blogs
2. you have a target to meet daily/monthly
3. you work a full time job outside the home
4. the opps are released only at god forsaken hours when half the sane world is already in bed
5. you are always being threatened with demerit points, suspensions and bans
6. you are bullied by your blogging colleagues
7. you are forced to write on the same topic for multiple times
8. you have to come up with No. 7 at the shortest time possible

On the other hand, it is easy if:

1. you only have one blog, particularly a general blog where everything goes
2. you do not have any target to meet.
3. you are a student or homemaker and do not have to rush to work in the morning
4. you do not live in the opposite time zone
5. you are not threatened with low tack, score, or whatever
6. You are not being bullied, there is no jealousy because no one knows how much you are earning
7. there are plenty of topics to write on that continues to spark your interest
8. assignments are emailed to you so you do not have to keep checking a thousand times
9. you have a few days to write up your post and submit

Personally, I find that it is not easy but I am not going to complain!

This afternoon, I had some sponsored posts to complete and those who know me know that I have many blog posts on Drafts written at various times that I don’t actually remember the contents until I publish them, since I am rushing and have no time to read the post in its HTML state.

Anyway, just after publishing a PPP opp, I published a post from my Draft folder. When it was published, I realised that it has a link on the post. I actually thought to myself, “Eh, there’s a link here and although it’s not a paid link, the reviewer of the PPP opp may misunderstand.” I certainly have no energy to get my post rejected for something like that and the proof that it is not a paid link. I mean, how is it possible to proof that a link is a non pad link, right?

So, I had to tuck it back into my Draft folder and publish another post that is totally link free.

Actually, this isn’t so big a deal but to have to stop myself and put myself in the eyes of the reviewer who may think that I have violated their Terms of Service, I really feel uncomfortable. Is this still my blog?? Why do I have a fear that I am violating something when I totally have not?

I can’t decide if I’m walking on eggs or glass. You tell me ….

I know a few of my fellow blog for pay colleagues have been starting new blogs almost every month. I applaud their effort. As for me, I don’t really want to start new blogs but I would like to work on my existing blog. I need to spend more time on networking, on leaving comments, to letting friends and family know of my blogs and put them on business cards.

Many of my friends are surprised that my family does not know of my blogs. I don’t know what will happen if one day they come across my blogs. Of course, this blog is fine but I have some other blogs that are personal and I do write a lot of things in a no holds barred manner and are not fit for my family to read.

Also, the fact that I do not let people who are close to me know about my blogs is because I would like to continue to have the freedom to write as freely as I could. I believe I can’t do that with people who know me could read my thoughts.

I would most probably abandon my blog if it is discovered by people close to me. I have even saved some posts into drafts when a friend of mine found out lol I think I am silly!

Anyway, instead of starting new blogs, I would rather work on raising my Google Page Rank and traffic. Does this make sense?

I am sorry to say this but recently, I have been having a slew of comments from people who came to my blog from a certain Do Follow blogroll and these people vaguely read through some of my posts and keep bombarding me with comments with a short sentence that touches slightly on my post topic, and obvious only looking for a link back to their commercial site.

I know there are companies that sell comments and there are people buying them, however, I do not feel right to publish these comments from people with a PRODUCT as their name.

I mean, I welcome comments from all quarters but please put a reasonable human name. I too don’t mind if the URL points to a commercial site BUT only if it is not in direct conflict to my advertiser. They wouldn’t want that because they have paid for the space.

And please leave a comment that makes sense and reflects that you have read my post.

I read somewhere a couple of days ago, I have forgotten where, that we should only have a maximum of three outgoing links per post and we cannot have more than a hundred outgoing links per page, so I am taking it to mean the blogroll and other links on the sidebar.

It is very reasonable to have a maximum of three links per post and if they are spread out well, the post would not look spammy at all. However, there are advertisers, I was told, that requested for EIGHT (8!!) links in one post and this advertiser is paying only $2. I keep thinking perhaps this blogger must have interpreted the instructions wrongly?? Or is it really true that the advertiser wanted to get maximum bang out of his money?

When I first started blogging for pay, I was given a task and the description included a long list of links. I was not told if I should incorporate them all into my post or if they were for my reference only, but I *think* I tried my best to fit in quite a few links to my post.

And because of that, I received a ban. It was really unnecessary to place a ban because the advertiser could just contact me to remove x number of links and the post would have been fine.

Now I know better. If the advertiser does not mention about additional links, only one goes into the post. Better for me too, right? 😀