Search engines ok with paid posting
An article from SEOmoz has reviewed that major search engines are ok with paid posting.
In recent months some incentivized blog posting programs are introduced where bloggers are paid to make a review for products and websites. The system has created quite some debates among webmasters and bloggers.
I am pretty neutral on this matter, as I see this matter as a supply and demand issue. If the advertisers are happy with what they are paying for, it’s ok for bloggers to monetize from the system.
One of my buddy explained it straight to the point, that lots of the webmasters never used products or services provided by advertisers from Google Adsense, and if we are putting the Adsense ads we are indirectly endorsing something we never used… that’s not much different from the paid posting services.
With the search engines reps stating their standings now, perhaps we will see another boom for these paid posting programs.
Aaron from SEObook also wrote a good article about this, while Andrew from Web Publishing Blog has some different ideas.