After all, there are already YouTube videos from a vlog whore and a twitter whore, the latter who went on and created a sequel.

I know ages ago, we talked about guest posting and I thought it might be a good thing, if you had time to do loads of posts. But really you were right. Nobody has the time to do all those posts for free while trying to keep up with their own work. For me, getting round to doing one guest post is a challenge.

I’m already a blog whore myself. I have been blogging for other people for a long while and currently I blog for 10 different clients all together. I usually don’t promote them heavily on my blog, especially not the ones where I blog under a ghost name.

I would not abandon my blog though, but do occasionally post less because I’m too flat out with all my client work. But if a huge network would ask me to participate for a monetary exchange I would probably consider it, depending on the offer and as long as I can keep my voice and values on my blog as is.

UP said it spot on. We are in this for the money too. At least I am. I am a freelance writer and problogger and that is how I earn my income and pay my bills. Therefore I refuse to blog for others for free in the hopes of getting more traffic, subscribers, etc.

My time is too valued to do that and I rather be paid for it. That is why my own blog isn’t monetized at this stage. It is my way of giving away my knowledge in the hopes of helping upcoming freelance writers.

But, like Panther said, I’m also an ethical whore myself. If I can’t agree with the views on the blog, I won’t take the job.

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As you say, as long as a business is in line with your ethical beliefs – why not? Of course, a huge salary would definitely help.

Hi Michael. I guess they would definitely be wanting something measureable in return. That’s a good point. Job security probably wouldn’t be too great.

If we blog, we are writers. And we are all to varying to degrees doing this to make money, or to build up a reputation in order to make money. I would be very surprised if any one of us said otherwise, and were being honest about it.

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Hi John – That’s an interesting point – and definitely something a company would have to consider – especially if they were using a ghost blogger.

I guess, if the blog was doing well – the company wouldn’t want to make a hash of it, by allowing someone else to deal with comments and questions. But at the same time – it would depend whether the blogger knew enough about the company to answer any questions in the comments section.