Devil Works

For those that haven’t noticed I’m now offering paid posts for this blog. I’ll review your site or service as long as it’s not completely irrelevant to what I normally write here.
I’ve set the price at $25 to start with and I’ll see how it goes, If I don’t get any offers at that price then it’s most likely I’ll take it down. There is a limit to what I’ll do paid work for, I’d much rather work towards having a $10,000 hour than work for peanuts.

On the other hand if by some miracle I start getting more review requests than I can handle then my price will be going up. I’m a capitalist after all

I received an email today enquiring about placing some advertising on another one of my blogs.

This is a bit of a first for me and I’m not sure how to proceed, or even if I want to proceed.

The email said they are interested in placing links with “blurb” in a fashion that it doesn’t resemble “sponsored links” or “ads by google”. The email also said that they may consider paying for reviews or even writing posts for the site.

The blog is in the credit card sector and I’m against placing anything even mildly dodgy on any of my sites and the credit card sector is full of dodgy offers. One of the concerns I have is that I entered the domain that the email came from in my browser and it just refreshed to Google. A Google search for the company name also comes up with nothing useful. It makes me wonder what sort of web marketing company would hide it’s name from the web.
I don’t even have any idea what to charge. At this stage I’m happy to accept any reasonable offer that covers my time to set it up and a little bit extra.

I’ve emailed the guy back telling him I’m open to proposals but I’m reserving my decision for now.

If you’re using Wordpress and Adsense on your site and you haven’t installed the Adsense Deluxe Plugin then you’re probably wasting a lot of your time cutting and pasting Adsense code into your posts.

In it’s most basic format it turns the process of putting code blocks into your post just a matter of typing

where ever you want the code block to appear.

My only advice is to view the readme.txt file that comes in the plugins zipfile before you install it. I didn’t and I was left scratching my head wondering why it wasn’t working. I found the answer and I haven’t looked back.