Impulse Blogger

Why to Advertise if there is No Commission?

Sometimes I see blogs that are totally overfilled with various badges and banners that link to PayPerPost, PayU2Blog, and even Disclosure.org. If these banners lead to affiliate pages / IDs, that is understandable, because referring a friend to any of these networks will put a few bucks in your pocket.

However, what if these banners were not paid up by the companies (if the blog is dead, has no rank or activity, it’s safe to say it was not paid by the advertise), referring people to, let’s say, PayPerPost, is just silly, because you refer a competitor, and you are not even going to be compensated for it. Imagine that there are only 2 bloggers post for PPP, and there are 2 advert-campaigns available. Naturally, each of them get one. If you kindly refer a 3rd person, for whom you were not rewarded materially, these 2 campaigns will be spread across 3 bloggers, which mean someone (and there is a chance it will be YOU!) will get left out.

So now tell me, what’s the point in trashing your blog with tons of banners and making it look cheap, at your loss?