Paid Articles in my site

Not sure if this is the right section but its kind of link building
I have recently started getting emails with people wanting to write me an article and pay me for it as long as it has "follow" links.

is this likely to use my site as a link farm or something and could i get a google penalty??
I did wonder if its actually someone from the blackhat section on here looking for places to put links

if it is safe to do what sort of price do you charge?

heres the email

I was just browsing, and we'd be really interested in working out a deal for placing relevant non-promotional content with do-follow links on ********.co.uk?

Before we can proceed any further, could you kindly check our terms and answer the questions, so there’s no misunderstanding.

Please confirm you accept the following:


1. The articles will remain posted, permanently as long as your website stays active. This includes our client’s do-follow link which will be included in the content.

2. There may be other external links to other sites in our content. We refer to them as authority links, and are placed in the content to show it’s researched. Please confirm you’ll be fine with this

3. Our articles will be placed in a relevant category, blog section that can be located from the homepage. What this means is, that the articles can be discovered and are inserted on to your website as if you’d written them. They won’t be hidden.

4. The articles cannot be marked as sponsored anywhere, no shall it say guest post, or guest author/contributor on the page and source. We also need our links to have no link attributes such as Rel=" sponsored"
*We can provide an Author Bio if required.

5. The articles must be posted on your main domain, and not a subdomain if you have one.

6. Our articles must be indexed in a timely manner, this means they will appear in the Google search results. Please don't worry if an indexing issue happens because we have a team who can walk you through on how to resolve it.

We strongly suggest using the URL Inspection Tool to submit a crawling request to the Google Search Console. This will help ensure our articles are indexed.

Kindly answer the following questions:


7. What’s your typical turnaround time once we send the article? Our customers usually expect it to go live within 2 -3 days.


8. We would also like to know if you are accepting the following
a) Articles/Links about gambling and cannabis.
b) Link Insertions into an existing article

Please let me know the price if you do.


Finally, please provide the following:


9.We only pay via Tipalti, please create your account on our platform as soon as you receive your login credentials to bloggers.publishsmartonline.com (on Wednesday)When invoicing us please make sure the live URL is included with an agreed price.
Payments will take between 5-7 business days
HERE is a link on how to sign up and submit invoices.


10. Your content guidelines. Let us know what you’d like to expect in terms of word count, themes and anchor text.

Well i think this guys just want to do quest posting on your site .Its nothing wrong with that just be sure that the article they post its relevant to your website and dont affecf it

If you get such emails it means you have a quality site, which is good, obviously

The only thing that I would be cautious about is the payment method. I've never heard of Tipalti, so I would discuss another payment option. But if you know for a fact that Tipalti is legit, I'd say go for it! Just don't do this too often, because your site could get flagged as link farm at some point and you'd lose all of the goodies (rankings, traffic, partnership opportunities in terms of advertising, etc)

Yes, it's safe but only do 2/3 paid guest posts monthly. Also, post genuine quality content too in between the paid ones.

It is a good option when ad revenue is low like now. I would do it but recommend caution when doing so. For starters, I would make sure people know it’s a guest post, I’d make sure it is relevant and that the keyword/link isn’t something crazy. Furthermore I’d check for plagiarism before I made it public.

If possible, offer to write it yourself and top up the price to make more and protect yourself. Safer that way. Good luck!

It's an excellent option to earn more from your website. You can charge good money to give backlinks from your website. Many websites do that. One of the sites charged me $200 for a single guest post backlink. So do you understand how much you can earn?

pro tip - the guy who wrote this thread with his 2nd post
hasnt been back since 1st week of January