Foreign Perspectives

One thing that I found quite surprising when I started doing the paid posts on a more widespread basis than I had before was that a considerable number of them are picked up by various blog aggregation services. So much so that I’ve almost trebled the number of “readers” subscribing to the feed of this blog and there are early signs that An Age of Magic will be going the same way in due course.

Does this matter to me? Well, in theory these guys are ripping off my hard work but on the other hand I’m sure that the advertisers quite like their stuff getting a wider readership than it would do if it were only listed on this blog and, since it gives me more inbound links for no effort, it will gradually increase the amount of money that I get paid to write the articles in the first place. So, for example, my piece “Considering starting an online business” of earlier today has been picked up by YourPropertyNews already.

Funnily enough, the vast majority of the articles picked up by these aggregation sites are those in the Sponsored category so my “real content” seems immune to piracy at the moment. Why this should be, I don’t know, as a lot of the Sponsored content is broadly similar in nature to the “real content”.