Selling blogposts and sponsored reviews can be a good source of income for your blog. In just a single post, you can earn from $5 – $50. The idea of earning is an advantage, but on the other side, there are some bloggers didn’t recognize the effects of selling paid post to their blog. Indeed, there are some risks n selling this kind of advertisement in your blog.

Lose a lot of visitors

Every time I saw blogs with interesting content. I usually bookmarked it and visit it regularly. If ever I saw a lot paid blog posts and sponsored reviews, I usually delete it or ignore this blog. Especially if they are selling blogposts/reviews about Casino, Pharm or other topics that are not related to their blog. Aside from losing visitors you will also lose your credibility if you do it.

It can hurt your PR/SERP.

Google doesn’t like paid links because it can cause manipulation of Searh engine ranking. They only allow it if there is a rel=”nofollow” tag that cannot be use for SEO. Viewers can report paid links to Google by visiting this link. If you have a lot of outgoing links from paid blogposts and sponsored reviews, you are sharing your link juice[Google PR] to their site.

Loss Subscribers

People hate spam emails. If you have a lot of subscribers in your blog, please take care of them. Provide them with information that they are interested of. If you are just falsifying facts or a non-sense blogposts and reviews just to earn money from sponsor, I’m sure people will unsubscribe to your feed.

Remember “Content is still the KING” not only for Search Engine but also for our readers also. Selling blogposts and reviews is not bad if you do it properly.