One of the most lucrative ways to make money with your blog is definitely with sponsored posts.

In this post, I am going to give you some tips to generate income with sponsored reviews and I’ll present you four interesting resources I use with success.

What is a Sponsored Post?

Sponsored posts (or sponsored reviews) are articles commissioned by third parties (typically advertisers, or agencies), where you usually write your point of view and experience of specific products or services.

Normally, you get in touch with the potential advertisers offering to write the review or, you can also be contacted directly by them.

There are pros and cons of sponsored posts, but if you put yourself in the shoes of your readers, you will end up having just advantages.

Like everything in life, just use a little of common sense.

General Tips to Make Money with Sponsored Posts

First, you want to have a nice layout and professional design (I use Genesis Framework personalized theme here).

Make sure to have an original and unique logo and your blog sidebar filled with important things like subscription box or social accounts.

After this, you want to set up an advertising page (with your media kit),  where you explain to potential advertisers your blog statistics. You want to showcase the best of your website, so be sure to write your strong points, like for example monthly impressions and visits, social numbers or the stats of your newsletter.

Now, there are different networks where you can create a profile to be found by advertisers (and below in this post, I am going to suggest you some websites I use to make money with sponsored posts). On the other hand, if you want to try finding advertisers yourself, you may want to read this guide:

How to Find Advertisers for Your Blog – 7 Tips to Make Money Online

But, how much should you charge for a sponsored post?

It really depends on metrics like your blog traffic or SEO rankings. I’ve been paid anything between $150 and $500 on nopassiveincome.com, depending on the project.

To set your rate, consider the following:

1. How many sponsored posts are you going to publish each month?
2. Can you offer something extra, like social promotion, for example?
3. How much time are you going to spend reviewing the product or the service?
4. How many readers do you have?

Once you set a reasonable price for your site, it’s also important you consider Google guidelines. Check the following:

Not all paid links violate our guidelines. Buying and selling links is a normal part of the economy of the web when done for advertising purposes, and not for manipulation of search results. Links purchased for advertising should be designated as such. This can be done in several ways, such as:

• Adding a rel=”nofollow” attribute to the <a> tag
• Redirecting the links to an intermediate page that is blocked from search engines with a robots.txt file

Remember, be sure to accept advertisers related to your niche. When you get new requests, always ask yourself:

• Will this sponsored post help my audience?
• Will this product or service be useful to my blog readers?

If the answer is yes, then go ahead.

As promised, keep reading to discover some websites I use to make money with sponsored posts on my blog.

ValuedVoice.com

They used to be LinkVehicle, and they recently rebranded to ValuedVoice.

Once you register, you can submit your blog. Be sure to add your website title, description, category, and rate:

Remember to fill up your profile, with your information and, most important, your PayPal address.

Once your blog is on their system, you just need to wait for sponsored post opportunities.

I get work from them each month. I submitted almost all my niche sites (related to business, finance, social media, etc).

Here’s a screenshot, as an example, of my most recent earnings :

Payments are made via PayPal, with free cashouts the first day of each month.

You will start with a free account. However, you may decide to upgrade to a Premium or Professional Influencer Account.

I have a premium account (just $3 each month) and I can request a cashout 72 hours after completion of the assignments.

I also noticed I get more work, compared to a free account:

To start making money with ValuedVoice, be sure to sign up here.

SeedingUP

This is another platform where I get assignments each month.

You can register here and submit your blogs.

Now, start with creating an offer:

Type your URL, then add language, category, and description of your site. After this, you can click “Continue“.

In the next page, determine the amount you want to charge. The price of the offer is based on the average price on the market for offers with similar characteristics. If major changes occur, the price will adjust accordingly.

The return of your earnings should be based on the general quality of your website. SeedingUp is a marketplace, in which basic rules such as supply and demand of offers apply. The price of your offer can be adjusted at any time.

You can decide within a range of prices for each blog booking, but you may want to set the lower rate, to be competitive on the marketplace.

Once you are happy with all the settings, go ahead and click on “Create Offer“.
Seeding Up will check your offer and will get in touch with you once it is reviewed (calculate 1 – 2 working days for a new offer to be activated. In individual cases it may also take a bit longer).

I usually request the payout via PayPal.

Register here and start earning with SeedingUp.

GetReviewed

Another platform that works and where I get assignments, from time to time.

Sign up here and submit your website.

Here are some of my blogs, listed in their marketplace:

Here’s a screenshot of my most recent paid jobs at GetReviewed:

Check their guide if you need specific information, but it’s all pretty straightforward.

/syndicate.net

No, it’s not a typing mistake, that’s the title of the site.

A couple of years ago, BuySellAds announced the creation of their new platform : /syndicate.net

You can use it to monetize your newsletter or to find opportunities for sponsored posts.

Here’s my profile:

If you want to be part of this awesome paltform, you can apply here.

I have already worked with /syndicate and it has been a great pleasure.

The selection can be pretty hard (like to be listed at BuySellAds marketplace to sell banners), but if they accept you, you will be assigned a personal assistant which is going to guide through the completion of your blog listing.

For example, SearchEngineJournal is listed there at $1,700 for each sponsored post (they have 900,000 pageviews each month).

Conclusion

I’m sure you are already making money with sponsored posts on your blog. If not, I hope this small guide will help you start with this monetization method.

I’ll be updating this post, from time to time, with new platforms and resources to help you generate revenue with blogging.

And remember. Be sure to consider your readers as the top priority and do not oversell your blog. Good luck!

What do you think?

Do you have any other resources to add?

Are you going to sign up to the platforms mentioned? Are they new to you?

Please share your knowledge and experience in the comments below, thanks!

And here are some other interesting posts on making money blogging, in case you like more reading:

How to Make Money With Affiliate Marketing – A 7 Minute Guide

Make Money While You Sleep: 5 Passive Income Ideas Anyone Can Do

Copy My Three Top Ways I Make Money Blogging!

How to Make Money with No Blog Traffic

We don’t look after the things such as backlink that will be pointed through this blog post and how it can ruin your blog completely.

I do check my Facebook account a lot and I’m always wondering how one can accept any type of blog posts just for the sake of earning few dollars.

Well, there are reasons and I’ve been through the same phase. That’s why I’m sure that I can convince you to stop accepting certain sponsored posts.

I think it’s time to talk about the facts. It’s time to talk about how sponsored posts can ruin your blog.

So, let’s first talk about the type of sponsored posts that are good and bad.

There are two types in which a sponsored posts can be categorized i.e., Good and bad.

Good sponsored posts are those which are talking about the subject deeply. They are certainly the one who are written for the purpose of building network and trust. Also, they don’t really link back to spam website. Usually, they will put a backlink to their company website.

On the other hand, bad sponsored blog posts are those which are not well-formatted. Those posts are written for the sole purpose of putting some spam or casino website.

Remember, linking back to the casino websites will affect your blog’s search engine ranking. So, you better shouldn’t accept the sponsored posts which are linking back to casino website.

Reasons Why Bloggers Accept Sponsored Posts

It’s important to get to the roots to find out why bloggers are accepting sponsored posts.

Quick Cash

This is the real reason and in fact I would say the most important one. Everyone wants to earn money from blogging however not each of them succeeds in earning.

So, they start thinking that this is the best way of earning the money. However, if you accept irrelevant backlinks on your blog, you’ll definitely be penalized sooner or later.

Well, I don’t feel that there is any other reason except the one that I’ve mentioned. If there is any, do let me know via comments.

Now, coming back to our original topic of discussion.

How Sponsored Posts Can Ruin Your Blog Completely

Poor Quality Article

You need to pay an extra attention to the quality of these posts. Generally, the advertiser tends to provide low quality blog posts because that’s easy to produce.

In fact, some advertisers go ahead and provide spun article which might have grammatical mistakes.

Readers? Don’t you care about them anymore?

Did you forget that you started your blog to help out others? That’s when you started having readership around your blog.

Well, then it doesn’t sound good to force them to read sponsored post which poorly written or which is totally unrelated to the topics that you’ve been covering.

If that sponsored post is not adding value to your blog, it’s totally useless to have one.

Selling links?

Well, you’re definitely selling backlink if the advertiser is asking for a link back to their site. And according to the terms and conditions by various companies such as Google, this is illegal.

If it is found out that you’re selling links, your blog’s page-rank will be ripped off. You may even lose search engine ranking.

Low quality backlink

I know that I’ve just talked about the fact that selling link is illegal however I know that there are thousand other bloggers who simply ignore it. So, I decided to include this section of low quality backlink.

What I mean by low quality backlink is the quality of the website that is being linked through the blog post.

If the website is found to have spam content that would certainly put your ranking down.

Is it worthy?

Well, there is a slight line between accepting good and bad sponsored posts.

When you decide to accept such type of blog posts, you need to take care of things such as –

• Will it affect my blog’s search engine ranking?
• Will it affect my position that I’ve been able to create in the minds of my readers?
• Is the content really worth posting?
• Is it adding value to your blog?

What are your thoughts on accepting sponsored posts? How do you go after them?

Feel free to add your opinion in the comments below.