When not to accept advertising如果不接受廣告

I was recently approached by someone who wanted to buy $550 worth of advertising on Simplehelp, and ended out turning them down.最近我接觸的人誰想買價值550美元的廣告Simplehelp ，並結束了轉折點他們失望。 After seeking the advice of a number of other bloggers, here’s why I said no.經過徵求意見，其他一些博客，這裡就是為什麼我說沒有。

This post could also be called “Why I still don’t have an iPhone”.這個職位也被稱為“為什麼我仍然不具備iPhone手機” 。

The entire email transcript between “James” and I can be found as a screenshot at the end of this post.整個之間的電子郵件記錄“詹姆斯， ”我可以找到一個畫面結束時，這一職務。 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）的電子郵件是詹姆斯的最後名稱和電子郵件地址。

So - on Sept 12th I received an email from James, asking if I was interested in selling him advertising on Simplehelp.所以-在9月1 2日我收到了電子郵件，詹姆斯，詢問我是否有意出售他的廣告S implehelp。 My response was sure I’m interested, what did you have in mind?我的回答是肯定我很感興趣，你怎麼想到的？ He responded with a request to insert a paragraph on 8 different pages on Simplehelp, with his “links adjusted in them”.他回答，並要求插入一個段落， 8個不同的網頁Simplehelp ，他的“鏈接調整他們” 。 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.他的下一行是什麼使我真正考慮他的提議-他c itied一個“ T echnorati的前1 00名”博客（ S mashingMagazine）作為一個例子是誰，他已對這樣的提議，並直接鏈接到這方面的一個例子“風格“的廣告。 I subscribe to我贊成 SM’s RSS feed釤的RSS種子 , and I actually read it. ，我其實閱讀。 So if they’re doing this kind of advertising, it sure seems legit, right?所以，如果他們正在做這樣的廣告，它肯定是合法的，對不對？

The very smartest thing that I did in making my decision was to ask other bloggers what they thought.非常聰明的事情，我沒有使我的決定是要求其他博客他們思想。 So I sent an email to因此，我發送電子郵件至 Jason傑森 , ， engtech , and ，並 The How-To Geek該如何對怪胎 . 。 Eng brought楊永強了 Daniel丹尼爾 into the discussion, as he had recently進入討論，因為他最近 wrote about a similar’ish scheme寫了similar'ish計劃 . 。 Here’s what I learned from those guys:以下是我從這些傢伙：

Quite a few bloggers have been recently approached with a similar offer.不少博客最近已接近了類似的建議。 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.事實上，兩個傢伙有一部分我的電子郵件線程已接近同一家公司-以提供更高的比我正在考慮。 They both turned it down, for the same reason I was skeptical - it’s not worth the possibility of他們都拒絕了，出於同樣的原因，我持懷疑態度-這是不值得的可能性 being punished by Google受到懲罰的谷歌 . 。 And a lifetime contract was out of the question.和終身合同是不可能的。

I also emailed the folks @ SM asking if they were willing to talk about their experience with this ‘advertiser’.我還通過電子郵件的人@釤要求，如果他們願意談論他們的經驗，這個'廣告' 。 They actually answered my email very quickly, and said they were pleased with the agreement.他們實際上回答我的電子郵件非常快，並表示他們很高興的協議。

But as The Geek pointed out, SM can get away with it - I can’t.但是，隨著奇客指出，釤可以擺脫它-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.他們得到這麼多來自其他交通博客，社交網站Digg和del.icio.us ，他們不“需要”谷歌作為急需像我一樣。 And since Google sends me almost自谷歌和我幾乎發出 half of my traffic上半年，我國交通 , I really can’t risk “ruining my reputation” with them if I want to think long-term. ，我真的無法風險“敗壞我的名譽”與他們如果我想要想長遠。

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. 附註：如果你足夠無聊通讀全文如下，你會發現，其實我種'發揮沿'詹姆斯，試圖獲得更多的細節他。 Asking him if he was sure if this kind of thing was OK with Google (of course he said it was).問他，如果他相信，如果這種事情是確定與谷歌（當然，他說，這是） 。 When I mentioned I was skeptical of a lifetime commitment, he dropped it to 3 years (and increased the offer from $520 to $550).當我提到我是持懷疑態度一生的承諾，他把它丟至3年（並增加了提供從520美元到550美元） 。 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.當我終於平了說，我想需要審查的網站，他要我聯繫之前，我要說是的，他停止響應。 I haven’t heard from him since.我還沒有聽說，因為從他。

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