http://laurelgreen.disqus.com/enMon, 16 Mar 2015 20:37:10 -0000https://laurelgreen.com/internet-nonsense/nablopomo-2014/#comment-2917227988<p>I've used the BlogHer website. BlogHer pays $50 flat for posts that they choose to syndicate. The vast majority of post are not chosen for syndication, yet BlogHer's ads appear on them anyway, making money for BlogHer and not the content creator.</p><p>It's like this on a lot of platforms. Facebook and Imgur also put ads next to user submitted content, but they don't try to bill themselves as noble, female empowering communities, like BlogHer does. It's the dishonesty that I take issue with.</p>Laurel GreenMon, 16 Mar 2015 20:37:10 -0000https://laurelgreen.com/internet-nonsense/nablopomo-2014/#comment-2917227986<p>I finally know I'm not alone. When I end up on a BlogHer site, I want to click the BACK button as fast as I can. I freakin' hate BlogHer. I hate the way the ads take over , the frames, and the way you get re-routed to other sites against your will. I haven't looked into it at all, but I always assumed that people who go this route with their blogs do it because the Ad-payoff if great? I've always thought "it's not worth it. you have great content, but you are making your blog unpleasant to visit. Epic fail, as they say. Way to drive away readers." <br>Your post implies that Blogher is using the content creator for ad revenue, but I've always thought that the blogger chooses to go this route because it pays better than Google Ad-sense. (I have no idea whethe it does or not).<br>I'm not sure which of us is right, but either way, I feel the people who let blogher do that to their site, must have no idea how the experience feels to their readers. In the long run, they lose money, because readers spend less time on a blog that is difficult to navigate or bombarded with ads.</p>MimiMon, 16 Mar 2015 20:14:37 -0000