I Know How To Get A Link From Huffington Post ..... Should I ?
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Hi pals, like the title says I know an author of the huffington post that will write a related article to my website and give me a genuine permanent link. But... he wants me to pay him $1000 for the link and the article. Do you think it's work it? Would YOU pay that price for a link like this??
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Hi
I agree with Lesley. there is a whole hypocrisy around this matter. I have had the opportunity to purchase articles related to our website from so many Bloggers, even for the biggest blogs such as Techcrunch, Mashable, Forbes... it seems that everything has a price nowadays and that a lot of your competitors might already be using these techniques.
I think that if the blog and the article are relevant, you should consider it.
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I hope I didn't offend you, that is not what I was going for.
You didn't. Absolutely not.
I responded with "what I do" rather than "what I think" because, honestly, I don't think about doing those types of promotions. I write content and the content performs well. It doesn't matter if it is published on a weak domain or a strong one, it tends to rank well most of the time - against retail or informational competitors. It almost never ranks well immediately, but it slowly climbs the SERPs. In a year - or two - it is usually on the first page of Google.
I make a big investment in the content, not in its promotion or placement.
I don't think that everyone can do this. I am lucky that lots of people like my writing. I've been doing it for over 50 years and have been fortunate to have many excellent editors, who each taught me different things. At the same time, my writing only performs well for a limited range of topics - those that I have been exposed to for a very long time.
But on the other hand I have seen companies that might gross 20k in a month "buy" an article from a major publisher and then gross 200k that month.
These are remarkable situations that I have never seen. My content pulls in lots of traffic, but none of it is written for the purpose of selling. It is written to answer questions posed by students, retail customers, or simply curious people. Each of my sites have has a store and products related to my content are sold there. But, my profits are mainly from ads.
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I hope it did not come off like I was implying that you did, sorry if it did. I was more asking your thought on how the whole journalism system is going in so much as charging for things.
To me is has really put me in a place where I don't know where to stand on the issue. I am familiar with the content long game and having great content written. But I do feel like the Field of Dreams is not true. Some times you can have an awesome content piece, but only 100 people see, 10 share it, and they have a small network so it does not share past that. I have seen that happen to several people I work with. But on the other hand I have seen companies that might gross 20k in a month "buy" an article from a major publisher and then gross 200k that month.
Not to give too much away, but I had a client that miss-ordered a lipstick color and ordered a very unpopular color in bulk. The manufacturer would not take it back because it was soon to be discontinued. They held on to the stock for about 8 months only selling 1-2 a month. As a last ditch effort before having a fire sale, they bought a placement in a magazine that came with a digital article too. They sold out of those 1900 units in a week. It worked, it made them more money, it got them more followers, more exposure, and they unloaded something they were just about to write off. So I know it works. I am just trying to wrap my head around it being against the rules and working so well.
I hope I didn't offend you, that is not what I was going for.
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The articles on our website are done in house and have a cost of $500 and up each.
We don't pay for articles on any other site, we don't submit our articles to any other site, if we see our articles on any other site we file DMCA or take other action. We have not done any linkbuilding for about eight years.
We publish and if our visitors like the article they share it for us. The goal is to have our content market itself and for our visitors to become our ambassadors. Each article is made with that type of goal and the quality to make that happen.
Don't spend time or money on promotion. Instead, create another article.
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I look at you as the content guru, so I have to ask what your thoughts on paid news articles are. I know with us, we have dealt with paid articles in print or/and web format from Elle, Vogue, Huff Post, CNN, and just about every major content player for every niche. More and more it seems that if you want to be in the "hot blog" that drives traffic, there is a price.
I know it is against Google guidelines to buy follow links from these places, but I would not exactly consider them a bad neighborhood either. Especially since not every link is a paid link. It seems like a penalty would be hard to lay down against some of the big publishers without hurting a lot of innocent people.
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Hi there
I would ask if the link, and content it's linking from, is relevant to your site? If not, then it's not going to provide a valuable experience for those clicking through. Also, is this guy legit?
From there, I would read Google's link schemes resource. Make sure the link is nofollow and that all of your bases are covered and protected.
Hope this helps! Good luck!
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I am betting that this "author" is not authorized to be offering links for a fee in Huffington Post articles.
So, you might pay $1000 for this link and be told that it is permanent, but this person does not own the Huffington Post website, then the site owners or staff can take his article down at any time or remove this link at any time.
Also, if that author offers to make links for the wrong person and they report him to the Huffington Post, he will be fired, and all of his links will come down.
Ask him how the check should be payable and then you will find out if he is the link seller or if HuffPost is the link seller.
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Do you think it will help your site? Google says not to pay for links, but this is pretty much the standard of how online journalism works these days.
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