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Frugal Student said:

How did you find advertisers and how did you get them to post to your blog?  What advertisers are, in your opinion the best?

I visited similar blogs when I started and contacted the advertisers myself.

Financial Success for Young Adults said:

You can also use a free Wufoo form on Blogger as your contact form.

What is the wufoo form and where do you find it?

Currently I'm seeing a big push towards sponsored posts on my blog.

I get about 2 sponsored post requests daily.

I charge anywhere between $50 to $100.

Please remember that guest posts are not recurring income. Its a one time fee.

Hope this helps.

Everything Finance said:

Currently I'm seeing a big push towards sponsored posts on my blog.

I get about 2 sponsored post requests daily.

I charge anywhere between $50 to $100.

Please remember that guest posts are not recurring income. Its a one time fee.

Hope this helps.

 

You can make it recurring income by limiting the time frame of the link.

You know. I should change that.

But I do have it set so that the links automatically become "nofollow" after 6 months.

From now on I should stop giving forever links. The problem is keeping track of them and notify the advertiser when their links expire. There are so many advertisers that just want 1 post.

Any ideas on how to keep track ? Maybe its time I hired a VA :) 

Yup.

I have just started doing that. Google Docs makes it really easy :)

Hello Everything Finance!

After about six months of accepting ads and not tracking, I decided to track by excel sheet (and went back six months to update it). Otherwise, it's money being left on the table (unlikely they will contact you to pay you more money:)). My last column in the excel sheet is "Renewal Date", and every month I check it out to see if there are renewals that I need to email. The contact's info is in the sheet as well.

Now that I made the sheet it is very easy to keep up with and super helpful.

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Everything Finance said:

You know. I should change that.

But I do have it set so that the links automatically become "nofollow" after 6 months.

 

From now on I should stop giving forever links. The problem is keeping track of them and notify the advertiser when their links expire. There are so many advertisers that just want 1 post.

 

Any ideas on how to keep track ? Maybe its time I hired a VA :) 

So when someone buys a link on a post, usually for how many months should it be active ?

Whats the average time a link remains active?

Everything Finance said:

So when someone buys a link on a post, usually for how many months should it be active ?

Whats the average time a link remains active?

Typically people offer 6 months to a year. I've seen people do two years, and forever too, although I don't understand why myself.

Do any of you charge a fee to companies who want to sponsor a giveaway on your blog? I got an email asking if I would write a post about a product giveaway. In return, I would receive this product for hosting the giveaway (some kind of printing services). I wasn't sure if this would be similar to the sponsored posts you discuss in this thread. Any advice is greatly appreciated.