When not to accept advertising当不接受广告

I was recently approached by someone who wanted to buy $550 worth of advertising on Simplehelp, and ended out turning them down.我最近接触，有人谁想要购买价值550元的广告simplehelp ，并结束了转折他们失望。 After seeking the advice of a number of other bloggers, here’s why I said no.经征询的意见，其他一些博客，这里的，为什么我说没有。

This post could also be called “Why I still don’t have an iPhone”.这个职位也可以被称为“为什么我仍然没有一个iphone ” 。

The entire email transcript between “James” and I can be found as a screenshot at the end of this post.整个电子邮件的誊本之间的“詹姆斯”我可以发现作为一个截图在本月底后。 The only info that I Photoshopped (唯一的信息，我photoshopped （ Gimp’ed gimp'ed really) out of the email is James’s last name and email address.真的）出来的电子邮件是詹姆斯的最后姓名和电子邮件地址。

So - on Sept 12th I received an email from James, asking if I was interested in selling him advertising on Simplehelp.所以-对9月1 2日，我收到一封电子邮件，由詹姆斯，要求如果我有兴趣在出售他的广告s implehelp。 My response was sure I’m interested, what did you have in mind?我的回答是肯定我有兴趣，什么你有在心灵？ He responded with a request to insert a paragraph on 8 different pages on Simplehelp, with his “links adjusted in them”.他的回应与要求插入一个段落，对8个不同的页面上simplehelp ，与他的“链接调整，在他们” 。 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.他的下一行是什么使我其实考虑他提供的-他c itied“来T echnorati前1 00名”博客（ s mashingmagazine）作为一个例子，是谁，他已采取行动，这种提供，并直接链接到这方面的一个例子“作风“的广告。 I subscribe to我订阅了 SM’s RSS feed钐的RSS馈送 , and I actually read it. ，其实我阅读它。 So if they’re doing this kind of advertising, it sure seems legit, right?因此，如果他们在做这种广告，它肯定，似乎合法，对不对？

The very smartest thing that I did in making my decision was to ask other bloggers what they thought.非常聪明的事，根本在作出我的决定是要求其他博客是什么，他们的思想。 So I sent an email to因此，我发出一封电子邮件给 Jason贾森 , ， engtech , and ， The How-To Geek如何到发烧友 . 。 Eng brought工程所带来的 Daniel丹尼尔 into the discussion, as he had recently进入讨论，因为他最近 wrote about a similar’ish scheme写一similar'ish计划 . 。 Here’s what I learned from those guys:这里的是什么，我知道从那些家伙：

Quite a few bloggers have been recently approached with a similar offer.也有不少博客最近已接近与类似的优惠。 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.事实上，在两个家伙被一部分，我的电子邮件线程已接近由同一家公司-提供了更高的比我正在考虑。 They both turned it down, for the same reason I was skeptical - it’s not worth the possibility of他们都拒绝了下来，出于同样的原因，我持怀疑态度-这是不值得的可能性 being punished by Google被惩罚由Google . 。 And a lifetime contract was out of the question.和一辈子的合同出来的问题。

I also emailed the folks @ SM asking if they were willing to talk about their experience with this ‘advertiser’.我也通过电子邮件发送的乡亲@钐要求，如果他们愿意谈论他们的经验，这'广告客户。 They actually answered my email very quickly, and said they were pleased with the agreement.其实他们回答我的电子邮件非常迅速，并表示他们很高兴与协议。

But as The Geek pointed out, SM can get away with it - I can’t.但由于发烧友指出，钐，可以摆脱与它-我不能。 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.他们得到了这么多的交通从其他博客，社会网站，像digg和del.icio.us ，他们不“需要” Google作为极像我一样。 And since Google sends me almost由于Google和发送我几乎 half of my traffic上半年我国交通 , I really can’t risk “ruining my reputation” with them if I want to think long-term. ，我真的不危险“的声誉，败坏了我”与他们如果我想认为，长远。

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. 附注：如果您钻孔，足以通读全文下面，您会发现，其实我是种'发挥沿'詹姆斯，试图了解更多详情，由他。 Asking him if he was sure if this kind of thing was OK with Google (of course he said it was).问他，如果他确信，如果这种事情是确定与Google （当然他说，这是） 。 When I mentioned I was skeptical of a lifetime commitment, he dropped it to 3 years (and increased the offer from $520 to $550).当我提到我是持怀疑态度的一生的承诺，他下降到三年（并增加了提供从五百二十〇美元至550元） 。 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.当我终于走出单位说，我要检讨的必要地盘，他要我连接到之前，我想要说的话，他停止响应。 I haven’t heard from him since.我没有听到从他自。

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