TypePad users with pro accounts, including yours truly, are getting emails alerting them to the opportunity to make money with their blogs. Subject line: “Let Your Blog Work For You.” Via a partnership beween Six Apart and Kanoodle, text ads — as in contextual ads visible as hyperlinks embedded in text — can be enabled on any pages that don’t use advanced templates. Content targeting foreign readers or written in a foreign language might be rejected by Kanoodle.
Six Apart isn’t promising hefty revenues; by default, earnings go to covering the TypePad hosting fee and it takes 90 days for money to be avilable in a blogger’s PayPal account. (PayPal seems to be the only option.)
I’m sure it will appeal to some bloggers but I’m not a fan of text ads. Granted, my personal blog isn’t likely to generate more than a few cents a month — if that. Steve Outing calls it “an innovative way to pay everyday people who are now publishing on the Web” and suggests it as an option for paying volunteer bloggers. Ari Soglin wonders if it’s worth upgrading to a Pro account.
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