Is It Ethical To Monetize My Blog?
On 11/12 last year, I blogged about Investing In Our Oxen.
Proverbs 14:4
Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty, but from the strength of an ox comes an abundant harvest.
An Oxen, in bible times, is a productivity tool. In an agricultural society, an ox is responsible for the plowing (of the land) , irrigation (to ensure the plant will leave), hauling (to transport the harvest from point A to point B) and grain grinding. Therefore, investing on the oxen’s well being is a must.
In blogging, blogs serve as an oxen. We spend time to make the design and content appealing. We put our energy and creativity on our blogs. We invest money for the internet access, hardware and software. Strong oxen have a purpose– that is to bring profit to the owner.
Therefore, if blogs are the oxen of bloggers, it should generate revenue to cover for the expenses and left over profits to enjoy.
There are several ways to monetize a blog, do a google search and it will lead to you to sites that will teach you how.
A word of caution though, ethics should be observed in the quest to earn. Otherwise, bloggers will be no different from opportunistic entrepreneurs. I visited sites that are plastered with ads everywhere. Sites that have more ads than content Others cheat to ensure profit.
Content that adds value to readers should also be posted not only entries that will only generate traffic and hits. At one end of the pendulum, we have bloggers that only thinks of revenue, at the other end are bloggers, like me, that are hesitant to place ads due to some ethical consideration.
Both extremes are wrong.
Like a wise investor, the time, talent, creativity, skills and money we invested to our blogs or oxen should yield earnings. But respect and ethics should be strictly observed. That is Personal Social Responsibility
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How timely for me to have come across this entry of yours! My site needs some sprucing up and I should consider allocating some of its space to revenue-yielding ads; just a bit, not too much.
Eric