From the WTF Files

Are you a member of Sponsored Reviews? I am/was. I use the was because I can’t remember my user name or password, and when I’ve tried to e-mail for it, I got no response. There’s no place on the site I can find to retrieve such information. I’ve gotten very few offers in my e-mail. From what I can see, the ones I have gotten are pretty spammy. After about the third spammy offer, and not being able to log in, I just delete those e-mails as soon as I see them now.

However, nothing beats an offer a friend of mine got and forwarded to me so that I could see it with my own eyes. She got an offer for $25 to post about a church’s site (Sorry, no link to the cult site. I won’t give them traffic). That seems relatively benign, but like any good blogger, before she accepted the offer, she did her research. Turns out this church, is labeled as a cult if you do some digging. The site reads as if it were written by a politician. It’s hard to wrap your head around because some of the things posted there are so fascinatingly wrong. I definitely wouldn’t drink their brand of Kool-Aid.

If you’re going to write a sponsored post, make sure you check out the links of these “sponsors” you’re posting for. I know the money may sound good, but if I read your article, click one of those sponsored links, and it takes me to  a spammy site, I will question your integrity as a blogger.

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