I was recently approached by someone who wanted to buy $550 worth of advertising on Simplehelp, and ended out turning them down. Nedávno som bol oslovený niekým, kto chcel kúpiť 550 dolárov v hodnote z reklamy na Simplehelp, a nakoniec sa obracajú nadol. After seeking the advice of a number of other bloggers, here's why I said no. Potom, čo hľadajú radu rad ďalších bloggerov, tu je dôvod, prečo som povedala nie.
This post could also be called “Why I still don't have an iPhone”. Tento príspevok by mohol byť tiež nazývaný "Prečo som ešte nemáte iPhone".
The entire email transcript between “James” and I can be found as a screenshot at the end of this post. Celý prepis e-mailu medzi "James" a ja, možno nájsť snímka na konci tohto príspevku. The only info that I Photoshopped ( Iba údaje, ktoré som photoshopped ( Gimp'ed Gimp'ed really) out of the email is James's last name and email address. Naozaj) z e-mailu je James priezvisko a e-mailovú adresu.
So – on Sept 12th I received an email from James, asking if I was interested in selling him advertising on Simplehelp. Takže - na 12 septembra som dostal e-mail od Jakuba, pýtala sa, či som sa zaujímal o predaj reklamy na neho Simplehelp. My response was sure I'm interested, what did you have in mind? Moja odpoveď bola, či ma zaujíma, čo máte na mysli? He responded with a request to insert a paragraph on 8 different pages on Simplehelp, with his “links adjusted in them”. On odpovedal so žiadosťou o vloženie odseku o 8 rôznych stránok na Simplehelp, s jeho "vzťahy upravené v nich". His next line was what made me actually consider his offer – he citied a “Technorati Top 100″ blog (SmashingMagazine) as an example of who has taken him up on this kind of offer, and a direct link to an example of this “style” of ad. Jeho ďalšie linka bola čo ma skutočne zvážiť jeho ponuku - on citied "Technorati Top 100" blog (smashingmagazine) ako príklad, ktorý prijal ho na také ponuky, a priamy odkaz na príklad tohto "štýlu "ad. I subscribe to Ja sa prihlásiť k odberu SM's RSS feed SM to RSS feed , and I actually read it. , A ja som vlastne čítal. So if they're doing this kind of advertising, it sure seems legit, right? Takže ak robia tento druh reklamy, určite vyzerá dôveryhodne, že jo?
The very smartest thing that I did in making my decision was to ask other bloggers what they thought. Veľmi Nejchytřejší vec, ktorú som urobil pri vytváraní moje rozhodnutie bolo sa opýtať ostatných bloggerov, čo si myslia. So I sent an email to Tak som poslal e-mail Jason Jason , , engtech engtech , and A The How-To Geek How-To Geek . . Eng brought Eng podaný Daniel Daniel into the discussion, as he had recently do diskusie, ako sa nedávno wrote about a similar'ish scheme písal o similar'ish systéme . . Here's what I learned from those guys: Tu je to, čo som sa dozvedel od tých chlapíkov:
Quite a few bloggers have been recently approached with a similar offer. Docela dost bloggerov bola nedávno obrátil s podobnou ponukou. In fact, two of the guys that were a part of my email thread had been approached by the same company – with offers higher than what I was being given. V skutočnosti boli dvaja chlapci, ktoré boli súčasťou mojej e-mailovej závit priblížil rovnakú spoločností - sa ponúka vyšší ako to, čo som bol uvedený. They both turned it down, for the same reason I was skeptical – it's not worth the possibility of Obaja to odmietol, že z rovnakého dôvodu som bol skeptický - to nestojí za možnosť being punished by Google trestu Google . . And a lifetime contract was out of the question. A život zmluva bola vylúčená.
I also emailed the folks @ SM asking if they were willing to talk about their experience with this 'advertiser'. Tiež som e-mailom, priatelia @ SM s dotazom, či sú ochotní hovoriť o svojich skúsenostiach s touto 'reklamy'. They actually answered my email very quickly, and said they were pleased with the agreement. Sú to vlastne odpovedal na moju e-mailovú veľmi rýchlo, a povedal, že boli spokojní s dohodou.
But as The Geek pointed out, SM can get away with it – I can't. Ale ako Geek uviedol, možno SM prejde - nemôžem. They get so much traffic from other blogs, social sites like digg and del.icio.us, that they don't “need” Google as badly as I do. Dostanú tak prevádzku z iných blogov, sociálnych lokalít, ako je digg a del.icio.us, že nemajú "potrebu" Google tak zle, ako ja. And since Google sends me almost A pretože Google posiela ma skoro half of my traffic Polovicu svojho prevádzky , I really can't risk “ruining my reputation” with them if I want to think long-term. , Naozaj nemôžeme riskovať "ničia moju povesť" s nimi, keď chcem, aby si dlho-obdobia.
Side note: if you're bored enough to read through the transcript below, you'll notice that I actually kind of 'played along' with James, trying to get more details from him. Okrajová poznámka: ak sa nudíte, stačí si prečítať prepis nižšie, uvidíte, že som vlastne druh 'hral spolu' s Jamesom, snažia sa získať viac informácií od neho. Asking him if he was sure if this kind of thing was OK with Google (of course he said it was). Pýtať sa ho, či si bol istý, ak sa takéto veci v poriadku s pomocou Google (samozrejme povedal, že bol). When I mentioned I was skeptical of a lifetime commitment, he dropped it to 3 years (and increased the offer from $520 to $550). Keď som sa zmienil, som bol skeptický celoživotný záväzok, on hodil ju na 3 roky (a zvýšila ponuku od 520 dolárov na 550 dolárov). When I finally flat out said I'd need to review the sites he wanted me to link to before I'd say yes, he stopped responding. Keď som sa konečne na plný plyn, že by som potrebné preskúmať stránky chcel, aby som odkaz pred Povedal by som, že áno, prestal reagovať. I haven't heard from him since. Nepočul som od neho roka.
I'm not sure if it is the same group or idea but in the past little while I've been getting emails from a woman with a GMail addie asking if I would be interested in some text link advertising or sponsored posts advertising. Nie som si istá, či je to rovnakej skupine alebo nápad, ale v poslednej chvíli som sa dostať e-maily od ženy s Addie GMail s dotazom, či budem mať záujem o niektoré reklamné textový odkaz alebo sponzorované reklamné príspevky.
The fact that there was no “company name” associated with the email sent up warning flags for me. Skutočnosť, že neexistuje žiadny "názov firmy" v súvislosti s e-maily odoslané do výstražné označenie pre mňa. Needless to say the emails found their way into the trash. Netreba dodávať, e-maily, našli cestu do koša.
I'm glad that you resisted an offer like that and SmashingMagazine is added to my do not bother to read list Som rád, že ste vydržal ponuka páči a smashingmagazine sa pridáva k mojej neobťažujú čítať zoznam
@Steven: I wouldn't go so far as to stop reading SmashingMagazine because of their advertising choices – they do have some good content sometimes. @ Steven: Ja by som sa ísť tak ďaleko, že prestať čítať smashingmagazine pretože ich možnosti reklamy - majú nejaké niekedy dobrý obsah.
Agreeing to give up a permanent spot on your page is just crazy, though. Dohodnúť sa vzdať stále miesto na vašej stránke je len blázon, hoci.
I had the same thing – “James” offering $150.00 for infinite years for unspecified text pointing to spammy sites. Mal som to isté - "James" ponúka $ 150,00 za nekonečné roky na nešpecifikované text ukazujúce na spammy stránkach.
I said no; he came back with $250.00 for the same thing. Povedal som nie, on sa vrátil s 250,00 dolárov za rovnakú vec.
For crying out loud, I can get that much a year for non-spam, one and two word text links – why on earth would I give him paragraphs pointing to spam _forever_ for a third of the price? Preboha, dostanem toľko rok pre non-spam, jeden a dva odkazy slovo text - preboha, prečo by som mu body poukazujúce na spam _forever_ za tretinu ceny? I told him that, and he came back with $300 for 3 years Povedal som mu to, a on sa vrátil s 300 dolármi za 3 roky
He was a persistent bugger, I'll give him that. Bol to pretrvávajúce do prcic, dám mu to.
I too had got a similar offer but instead of James it was some one called Jennifer, though the amount she offered me was a bit higher than yours she to finally agreed to come down from lifetime to 5 years. I ja som dostal podobnú ponuku, ale namiesto toho, James bol niekto volal Jennifer, aj keď suma ponúkla mi bola trochu vyššia ako vy si konečne súhlasil, že zostúpil z životnosť až 5 rokov.
Like you I too rejected the ads Rovnako ako vy aj ja som odmietol reklamy
@ @ The How-To Geek How-To Geek : :
I agree – I'm not going to stop reading them, the ads don't take away from the content (imo) – they couldn't be more clearly labeled as such. Súhlasím - nebudu zastaviť ich čítanie, reklamy, neužívajte od obsahu (IMO) - nemohli byť zreteľne označené ako také.
btw this response was crafted w/ that greasemonkey script I mentioned btw táto reakcia bola remeselne w / Greasemonkey skript, ktorý som spomenul