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Thoughts on pay for play sites, Forbes, Rolling Stone, Entrepreneur
Love to get everyone’s take on this new business model news sites are taking. Pay for play to get professional thought articles posted on high DA sites.
Rolling Stone 3k for 2 yrs
Entrepreneur 3k per year
etc.I have partaken in past few months and am seeing articles repurposed on dozens of smaller sites. Too early to know if i’ve gotten a bump yet.
**Questions:**
Does the repurposing of the original article on a 80 DA to dozens of 20 DA’s mean anything at all?
You think google is on to this?
Can you name any other sites besides Forbes, and Fast Company doing this? -
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Thousands of websites are doing this. Most of them are smaller, but realistically, if we are not taking money for links, we are leaving a lot of profit on the table.
I run a small but growing site in the tough health niche and today I got a backlink request from one of the biggest authority sites. I couldn’t believe it. This is an ultra YMYL site, one everyone knows and uses, and they want me to add a link from one of my articles. As if I’m going to give them that link for free when getting a link from them would catapult my site’s authority. But if they won’t give me a return link, then they should pay me for linking to them. They probably made as much as I do in a month during the time it took me to answer their email.
To me, it is just about changing the business model and knowing the value of what you have. I spend a lot of time and money building my site, and I pay for links elsewhere, so why should I give them out for free?
In the case of Forbes, news is an especially tough business right now, so they need more ways to monetize, and this is a good one. It’s certainly better than slamming people with 20 display ads on a page, although they do that as well.
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