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Introduction: Nick Rizzo points to this amusing Gawker item (sorry!) from Hamilton Nolan about advertisers trying to sneak links into blog content. The Gawker blogger got the following email: Greetings, My name is Bryan Clark, and I’m a big fan of your writing. I contacted you because I think I have a mutually beneficial agreement that will allow you to make additional money for articles you are already writing online. Let me give you an idea of how we can help each other. We’re looking for writers that can help increase the profile of our clients by linking to them within the context of their articles. The clients are huge, and we generally have one that can fit naturally in the context of most article niches. In return, we pay generously for a single link for our clients. If you are interested, I’d love to talk about it more. Regards, Bryan Clark Hey, that looks kinda familiar! Here’s an email I received a couple weeks ago [actually, last month, as we're currently on a 1-month l
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1 ) from Hamilton Nolan about advertisers trying to sneak links into blog content. [sent-2, score-0.277]
2 I contacted you because I think I have a mutually beneficial agreement that will allow you to make additional money for articles you are already writing online. [sent-4, score-0.148]
3 We’re looking for writers that can help increase the profile of our clients by linking to them within the context of their articles. [sent-6, score-0.675]
4 The clients are huge, and we generally have one that can fit naturally in the context of most article niches. [sent-7, score-0.495]
5 In return, we pay generously for a single link for our clients. [sent-8, score-0.404]
6 I’m marketing out a few sites and can pay you $50 via PayPal to add a text link into one of your older posts. [sent-13, score-0.508]
7 The link would go to an education site and I’d make sure the site relates to your post’s content. [sent-14, score-0.526]
8 Mandy Lando Apparently, Mandy Lando and I have one thing in common—I too loved my post on infographics! [sent-16, score-0.125]
9 —and one area where we disagree: I do not want to add extraneous links to my blog posts. [sent-17, score-0.263]
10 I guess that’s why he is a reporter and I’m not. [sent-20, score-0.104]
11 We work with big clients like Dell, T-Mobile, Sanford Brown, Motorola, etc. [sent-25, score-0.291]
12 that are constantly looking for links to their products or websites. [sent-26, score-0.229]
13 Writers like you are the natural medium to approach, as you write articles where these can appear naturally within the context of the article. [sent-27, score-0.275]
14 We aren’t looking for anything that doesn’t occur semi-naturally. [sent-28, score-0.214]
15 We pay based on the size of the site the link goes on. [sent-29, score-0.498]
16 If you want to send me a list of sites you currently write for I can give you a price breakdown. [sent-30, score-0.442]
17 com, so feel free to send me a price breakdown based on that. [sent-32, score-0.241]
18 ” For a link on Gawker, we would pay $130 [later upped to $175 -- ed. [sent-33, score-0.318]
19 They aren’t looking for anything that doesn’t occur “semi-naturally,” so really it’s all ok. [sent-37, score-0.214]
20 Gakwer gets $175 per link, whereas Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science gets only $50. [sent-39, score-0.205]
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