HeleneOnWheels
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- Jun 2, 2017
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I have a website in the health/medical niche that used to make a lot of money from affiliate income. It still gets good traffic, but not so much to the affiliate pages since the various Google updates. I’m sure you all have been there.
The site has real content with human-written articles by me and various other writers. I still regularly add these types of articles. But for a while now, I have been monetizing the site by accepting guest posts. Most of the placements I get are for assisted living facilities, rehab centers, nursing schools, malpractice and product injury lawyers, etc. I don’t accept casinos, cannabis, or anything else sketchy.
I charge $50 per post. I think the site is worth more, but I am most interested in getting steady placements to meet my income goal. I’m currently receiving an average of 3 posts per week, and would like to increase that to 5-10.
I get a lot of inquiries, but many are from resellers, and frankly, they’re terrible to deal with. They are rude, try to get discounts even though I state multiple times that my prices are firm, and usually barely speak English. Sometimes, I am fortunate enough to get contacted directly by a guest post agency. They are wonderful to work with, they just don’t send me quite enough posts at this point.
I know that the resellers I have worked with must be contracting for agencies, but I have no way of telling which agencies. They are in the middle and take a cut for basically doing nothing but making my life a hassle, and probably annoying the agencies as well.
Here are my questions: How can I connect directly with more reputable agencies that want to place quality posts? Is it possible to figure out who the resellers are contracting with? I tried looking at the PayPal invoices, but they usually just pay as themselves rather than having the agency pay. I thought about reaching out to some of the companies that have placed posts with me to see which agency they work with, but that’s very time-consuming, and I doubt most of them would answer.
I would like to be proactive instead of just responding to 5+ cold emails per day, hoping that one will be legit and not demand that I place their junk posts for $5.
Thanks for any advice you can offer!
The site has real content with human-written articles by me and various other writers. I still regularly add these types of articles. But for a while now, I have been monetizing the site by accepting guest posts. Most of the placements I get are for assisted living facilities, rehab centers, nursing schools, malpractice and product injury lawyers, etc. I don’t accept casinos, cannabis, or anything else sketchy.
I charge $50 per post. I think the site is worth more, but I am most interested in getting steady placements to meet my income goal. I’m currently receiving an average of 3 posts per week, and would like to increase that to 5-10.
I get a lot of inquiries, but many are from resellers, and frankly, they’re terrible to deal with. They are rude, try to get discounts even though I state multiple times that my prices are firm, and usually barely speak English. Sometimes, I am fortunate enough to get contacted directly by a guest post agency. They are wonderful to work with, they just don’t send me quite enough posts at this point.
I know that the resellers I have worked with must be contracting for agencies, but I have no way of telling which agencies. They are in the middle and take a cut for basically doing nothing but making my life a hassle, and probably annoying the agencies as well.
Here are my questions: How can I connect directly with more reputable agencies that want to place quality posts? Is it possible to figure out who the resellers are contracting with? I tried looking at the PayPal invoices, but they usually just pay as themselves rather than having the agency pay. I thought about reaching out to some of the companies that have placed posts with me to see which agency they work with, but that’s very time-consuming, and I doubt most of them would answer.
I would like to be proactive instead of just responding to 5+ cold emails per day, hoping that one will be legit and not demand that I place their junk posts for $5.
Thanks for any advice you can offer!
