Mari loves when people comment on posts that actually interest them. It’s the highlight of Mari’s day!

…Mari had a really long rest of a response to this comment, but turned it into a post.

I have always taken a very public stand against PPP posts. I have openly and willingly criticised people who take part in PPP. I feel it devalues blogging on the whole, not just the blogs of individual “posties”. I find myself having to question every recommendation and every link - “is this a PPP?” - because of the underhanded behaviour of some. So, to find well written entries like this one (and Starlet’s) from the other side of the fence on the negative impact, and Google’s right to do what they like.. well, it makes my heart smile

Anyway, yeah, I’ve become rather disappointed with them myself. I feel as though I worked hard for them and got kicked in the teeth for it. The point was to blog about things you love, but more and more I see less things that I love and more than looks like inbox spam. It’s really pathetic. My monthly income from them dropped like a son of a gun and I pretty much stopped working with them. I like keeping up with another company, but that’s because I can actually receive the product I review and blog about it. Before I tried to blog honest opinions about products or services, but when the advertisers themselves start saying things like “mention how fast our delivery was and what products you ordered” when I clearly did not buy anything then it’s time to go.

It’s a shame, it was great working with them in the beginning, and occasionally when they send me a product to try and to review I’ll do it, but for the most part we’re estranged.

Now my frequent blog posting is 99.9% non-sponsored. O.O How did that happen? I’m still dishing out the frequent posts somehow! lol

…I bet you’re a busy person, but come on now, Mari wouldn’t leave a comment like that on your post.

*sigh*

Mari looked at Blog to Profit, but decided against it. By the time Mari had heard of that, Mari was starting to hate paid posting.

Her site is awesome. Mari goes there to lurk and read whenever she’s bored on her laptop.

Mari tried to choose topics that were relevant to her blog, but honestly, Mari’s blog is so…unfocused that there is really no way to advertise on it.

Oh, that would be the dream. Writing about things that mattered and getting paid. Philosophical Post Pals rather than Pay Per Post. XD

HOLY SHEET! Mari should start that *dead serious*. But…Mari would never be able to pay anyone. XDDDD

If some company ever did that, they’d still have some spammy gambling link in it or something. *sigh*

Really? Good, that’s what Mari was hoping for.

Just to clarify, in case you’re confused (you kinda almost nearly sounded like you were), WordPress.com forbids it, not WordPress.org. Mari got a comment from Matt, the face of WordPress, (caused by a trackback Mari didn’t realize she left on his site) once while Mari did PPP. It’s not like everyone at WordPress and Automattic immediately shuns all hosted WordPress users who do PPP. They don’t like it, but it’s not like they’ll forgo all common courtesy. Matt was still nice enough to leave a stupid little kid like Mari with a stupid little post (which was, at the time, surrounded by PPP posts on the main page) like that a comment.

Then again, he’s probably definitely a busy guy, so he probably didn’t click around. (WHEW! Mari wouldn’t want any big name bloggers to see her site in such a state of disrepair as it has been since forever.)

Yes! Your entry was really good! I should have linked to it, but didn’t think to. I think I will now.

Yeah, Mari already did. Mari just said flat out that she did PPP and TLA and they restored Mari’s PR. Mari’s back up to a 3.