Almost immediately after writing about the problems of paid posting systems in which the advertisers approve the posts, I was hit by a pair of perfect examples of why this is a problem.

First, the above example of a rejection from today. The advertiser paid for a 100 word post and I gave them about 120. That should have been more than enough, but they rejected the post and demanded at least 250 words.

The problem is that all of my readers have now seen that post (given that they have 3 days in which to tell me they aren’t happy, that’s most of the exposure) and if I want to get paid, I need to write far more than they have paid for.

However, I should probably count myself lucky as this advertiser currently is showing a 66% approval rating, so a third of the bloggers’ posts have been rejected, without even being given the opportunity to rewrite it. Add to that figure the rewrites and they are really taking the mickey!

The other example from today is an advertiser that paid for a link only post, in which they want a write-up about a particular home alarm system along with an image of the product. These guys have been doing this and getting away with it for ages – I’ve already seen their opportunity a few times – yet they keep getting away with under paying bloggers. Not fair on bloggers and not fair on other advertiser who are paying a fair price.