What Do You Think of Paid Blogging?

I’ve seen several blog posts that state that paid blogging devalues blogging and bloggers. My question is why?

Yes, blogging is a hobby. But people have made it a business as well. You can make pretty much any hobby a business. Some people have made cross stitching or crocheting or knitting their business, and it doesn’t devalue other stitchers/crocheters/knitters, so how it is that being a paid blogger devalues bloggers? That really doesn’t make sense to me.

A blog is a website just like any other website. The owner of said website has the right to make money from it just like they would have the right to make money off any other type of website they put up. So why is blogging such a different animal? What makes it so special that bloggers can’t make money from their hobby like other hobbyists do?

I’ve seen arguments that people don’t believe it when you review a product and say you weren’t paid for it. That’s their problem. The only person who needs to know or care that it wasn’t a paid review is you. Period. Let others think what they want to about what you said. Bottom line, paid or not, if the reader is interested in the product, they’ll check it out. End of story. So why the big deal about paid blogging?

To my idea, paid blogging is just like getting paid to do anything else that you consider a hobby. It’s a nice little bit of extra income and when it stops, it stops. Oh well, big deal.

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