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Me vs. Paid Blogging

Here's something fun (and it's not about LiveJournal for once; gasp).

So I'm sitting here hitting refresh non-stop on my email inbox, which is much more fun than data cleaning, when lo and behold I see I've gotten an email from someone purporting to be from a pay-per-post company asking me if I'd like to participate.

I say sounds interesting, give me some more info and asked how my blog was found.

Thank you for your interest in doing business with us. I found your blog through Google.

This is how blog post sponsorship works. We send you three (3) link codes, then you embed each link in a short post not less than one hundred fifty words (150). One post for each link. The posts need not be very intricate and will not necessarily be a review but the post must be original and must not copy any content from any site or from the link itself, rephrasing is acceptable. Hateful or rude comments about the link or keyword will be declined and please don’t mention that the post is a sponsored one or put it in any category that is called sponsored or paid. The anchor text or keyword, where you are to direct the link through should be used in its exact given form. We will need the permalink from each post.

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Once the three (3) posts are completed I will ask you to notify me so that we can pay you via PayPal. We will need your PayPal address. We will pay 5.00 USD for each post, each batch is 15 USD. We will pay immediately once all the posts are completed. Please verify if we should send you orders right away.

Quoted From: Email (emphasis mine)

Legitimate offer? Who knows. I double-checked the email's IP against Mint and it turns out that 'Google' was actually lean-forward.com, and the emailer has been lurking around on my contact page for the last two days. So strike one for lying right off the bat there. Let's face it, I'd rather gouge my own eye out than get involved in pay-per-post blogging which is, like… tacky doesn't even begin to describe it. Urgh.

Interesting way to end a Monday afternoon though, I guess.

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