Okay, thank you.
That makes sense then. I like the idea of “if people like what the blogger writes, people will then seek out the blog.” That’s fair.
Now, I have no idea of the OP’s history and if he’s an egregious excerpter, that’s one thing. But if not, c’mon, ease up.
Actually, for many bloggers, it does. Many bloggers have adds all over their blogs and get paid per the number of clicks they receive on their blogs.
Also, you can get a lot of cookies, trackers and adware by going to blogs.
Personal experience always trumps conjecture.
On hubby’s biz site, I have AdSense installed.
His site is a very specific niche site, does not get ~anywhere~ *near* the hits FR does yet I make a fair chunk of change every month just from the people who merely ~visit~ his site.
There are no cookies, adware, trackers or beacons installed so I’m not “utilizing the site’s full monetizing potential” as experienced-per-click folks do.
I am content with the ‘pocket money’ I get.
So to say that they do *not* “get paid” for diverting traffic away from a HEAVILY visited and high profile site is fallacious.
I *could* put a clickable link to his site on my profile page and get ‘accidental’ hits from FReeprs but I will not do this.
[I could even just put the URL in my tag line and a lot of people would go, simply out of curiosity]
I refuse to leech from Jim’s hard work.
I have had FReepers ask about the site and then I send them the link, privately.
*If* *I* had some great bit of wisdom to impart to my fellow FReerpers, something that I thought would inspire great deeds or inform of dire needs, I would simply post it as a vanity and let it stand on its own merit, -free-.
*That* is how true conservatives should act; not post excerpts as a means to line their own pockets but to freely offer information/a service in the cause of conservatism.
To call those who oppose ‘pimping’ names such as “liberals”, “Soros plants”, etc etc etc is exactly the opposite of what is actually true.
Patriots -give- of themselves with no expectation of getting -anything- in return.
They give freely and solely for the love of their country.
[case in point, *some* ZOTted blog pimps immediately ran to DU to castigate and condemn this great site...what does that tell you about their -true- motives?]
I greatly appreciate those hard workers who find a news article which -must- be excerpted due to copyright terms and then post the link to the entire article since I do not have time to scour the internet for such things.
Most blogs are monetized for profit which is fine, in and of itself.
The problem begins when the bloggers use a high traffic site to “piggyback” their way to riches.
“Blogging for dollars” is the new ‘get rich quick’ internet moneymaking scheme.
Tons of books tell you how to do it.
Even once free and pure YouTube is infested with annoying for-profit pop-ups and intrusive ads, now.
There are few things you *can’t* find a way to monetize, these days.
This is just how it is.
Some people care enough about keeping FR -free- of the ‘monetization plague’ that they will gladly suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule, hatred and contempt to keep it *free*.