Recently, with the arrival of paid reviews, blogging too, can now be turned into a full time profession that can really bring 3 hot meals to your dining table. When i started blogging casually nearly 2 years ago, the only hope of ever making something from my blog was through Adsense, and that was a terrible resource for small time bloggers like me.
Now with various portals springing up offering bloggers to do paid reviews, the chances getting some decent income from my blogs have increased significantly. Portals like PayPerPost, ReviewMe and recently, Sponsoredreviews have made blogging a relevant career choice for many. I have to emphasise again that this is a career that don’t need a degree, though you must be very proficient in English and have a flair to write.
Starting a blog is easy. The most difficult part is to make it noticeable. One very important aspect of a blog is the ability of that blog to score highly among Search Engines like Googles. Many an expert will teach you about various methods on achieving this, but do we actually know how Google reads our blogs when deciding on our score? I too did not have much idea in this area until I read this post by Bill Slawski, an SEO expert.
In the article titled,“Positive and Negative Quality Ranking Factors from Google’s Blog Search (Patent Application)” he discussed about “responses to searchers queries based upon a combination of relevance scores and quality scores.” It’s a very informative post and I would advice all those who feels that they want to make a living out of blogging to go read that article.
The particular section that caught my eye, because I have lots of ads in my other blog, is this part about getting a negative quality score.
Ads in a blog
If a blog contains a large number of ads, this may seen as a negative indication of the quality of a blog.
According to the patent application, blogs typically contain three types of content:
* The content of recent posts,
* A blogroll, and;
* Blog metadata (author profile information and/or other information about the blog or its author).If ads are present, they usually appear within the blog metadata section or near the blogroll. If ads are seen in the recent posts part of blog, they could be considered a negative quality factor.
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