I was an early user of Blogitive, back in the days when it used to be fun. I made up rhymes and other bits of nonsense and included a link as well. It was good for creativity and gave a few people a laugh as well, but it looks like the Blogitive party is over.
It seems that blogs on WritingUp, BloggerParty and a few others are no longer going to be accepted from today. If you have a blog on one of those sites and have already had your post accepted, you will be paid, but they’re not planning to issue any more offers. Here’s the post that lays it all out.
I have mixed feelings about this because it started as an easy source of income, but it’s not so easy now. I haven’t been posting as many Blogitive posts here because of two of their rules (the ‘only write about the press release’ rule and the ‘two posts in between rule’.) Apart from that, I haven’t had much time, so writing three posts to make $5 is less cost effective than writing one. I know some people can do it, but it’s been difficult to fit it in with my other writing work. Other paid posting sites don’t impose those rules (at least not yet, and I can write a fun post in five minutes and get paid).
Maybe Blogitive has done me a favour. I won’t waste time looking for WritingUp offers that I have to reject. It may also be the kiss of death for my BloggerParty blog. Who knows? On the plus side, I’ve still got a couple of other blogs they will accept, if I can be bothered to write anything for them. I hope you do too.
(Thanks for the heads up, abi.)
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