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WP plugin to charge for guest posts. As a blogger for last 10 years, I think someone should consider providing WP blogs with ability to charge for guest posts.

by mudil 13y ago

WP plugin to charge for guest posts. As a blogger for last 10 years, I think someone should consider providing WP blogs with ability to charge for guest posts. That can be done either as a single time purchase (for a single guest post) or as a recurring payment (i.e. monthly charge for unlimited or predetermined number of guest posts per month). The purchaser makes a payment and opens an account, and then is redirected to WP where he can write a post. Guests posts is a growing industry for a number of reasons: SEO manipulation, old fashioned PR, promotional activities, contests with multiple participants (such as writing contests), etc etc.

conroy 13y ago
Matt Cutts has said recently[0] that guest blogging should be avoided. [0]: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/guest-blogging/ http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/guest-blogging/
- danneu 13y ago
  He's condemning "low-quality spammy for-SEO" guest blogging. Googlebot doesn't magically know when you're guest blogging or gaming it. All it can do is pattern-match against heuristics that you can avoid.
- notduncansmith 13y ago
  I don't understand why this comment is being downvoted. I feel like it's relevant to the discussion (and was about to post it myself).
  - dang 13y ago
    Comments like the GP have been affected by the recent change we made to make some downvotes more powerful (cf. sama's recent post on this). We did this to address HN's toxic comments problem, but it has a downside: some good comments get caught in the crossfire. It's not that they're getting more downvotes than before, it's that you see it more because they're getting counted more. The HN community has long had an informal self-correcting mechanism for this case: when fair-minded users see a substantive and civil comment unfairly faded out, they upvote it back to par. We're encouraging everybody to do this consciously. The hope is that the overwhelming majority of good comments will come to rest in positive territory, while comments that deserve it stay negative. Exactly this happened with the GP. In general, it's best to give such comments a corrective upvote yourself and trust your fellow users to do the same. "Why was this downvoted" posts mostly add noise—especially once the comment in question is back at par. (We're seeing a lot of this.) If it turns out that it's necessary to rally corrective upvotes—that is, if casual reader attention isn't enough—we'll figure out an unobtrusive way to achieve that. For now, though, let's wait and see if it is.
8ig8 13y ago
I'm pretty sure the User Frontend plugin provides that: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-frontend/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-frontend/

by mudil 13y ago

conroy 13y ago

Matt Cutts has said recently[0] that guest blogging should be avoided. [0]: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/guest-blogging/ http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/guest-blogging/

danneu 13y ago
He's condemning "low-quality spammy for-SEO" guest blogging. Googlebot doesn't magically know when you're guest blogging or gaming it. All it can do is pattern-match against heuristics that you can avoid.
notduncansmith 13y ago
I don't understand why this comment is being downvoted. I feel like it's relevant to the discussion (and was about to post it myself).
- dang 13y ago
  Comments like the GP have been affected by the recent change we made to make some downvotes more powerful (cf. sama's recent post on this). We did this to address HN's toxic comments problem, but it has a downside: some good comments get caught in the crossfire. It's not that they're getting more downvotes than before, it's that you see it more because they're getting counted more. The HN community has long had an informal self-correcting mechanism for this case: when fair-minded users see a substantive and civil comment unfairly faded out, they upvote it back to par. We're encouraging everybody to do this consciously. The hope is that the overwhelming majority of good comments will come to rest in positive territory, while comments that deserve it stay negative. Exactly this happened with the GP. In general, it's best to give such comments a corrective upvote yourself and trust your fellow users to do the same. "Why was this downvoted" posts mostly add noise—especially once the comment in question is back at par. (We're seeing a lot of this.) If it turns out that it's necessary to rally corrective upvotes—that is, if casual reader attention isn't enough—we'll figure out an unobtrusive way to achieve that. For now, though, let's wait and see if it is.

8ig8 13y ago

I'm pretty sure the User Frontend plugin provides that: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-frontend/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-frontend/