Re: Is Your Blog Commercial?

**K*@aol.com**

The type of blog that most people talk about is their own blog, and that  can 
be whatever they choose - a sales tool, something for friends and family,  
resume/cv whatever. There is however a rather missed market in blogs that makes  
money: other peoples blogs.

There are hundreds of landscapers, and garden centers with web  pages that 
get dusty, and more coming online each day.  Every new business  selling any 
widget you can imagine also needs a web page. All these people need  web content 
including web articles and blogs and for the garden  related ones they pay for 
garden writers to fill their pages for them.
In the last three weeks I have done 3 articles on using burlap cloth in the  
garden, 5 on strawberry planters, and 10 for an organic start up site - all 
paid  and all are ghost written, and for the most part I do not know the final 
sites.  No, my name is not in lights across the town, but the green bills are 
sat in my  bank, thank you. I write content for landscapers and garden centers, 
all under  their name, and all the 'blogs' say something about gardens and do 
not  endorse a specific product, they just give a visitor some good 
information when  they are on that site, that makes them want to come back.
In essence these are commercial blogs, but some also come across as  being 
the personal blog of the site owner,and for a garden writer, they are work  that 
pays.

Just another way to look at blogs,

Kate  Copsey
Garden Writer
_www.katecopsey.com_ (http://www.katecopsey.com/)  
_http://www.examiner.com/x-1321-Atlanta-Gardening-Examiner_ 
(http://www.examiner.com/x-1321-Atlanta-Gardening-Examiner) 
_www.katesgardenjournal.com_ (http://www.katesgardenjournal.com/)   

In a message dated 3/3/2009 6:31:12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
cottagegardenpro@yahoo.com writes:

Then  there are blogs that are more commercial in nature. I suspect most can 
relate  to this type of differentiation at one level or another. At one end of 
the  spectrum might be a garden writer who is using the blog as a writing  
portfolio. At the other end of the spectrum might be a high budget big-time  
corporation using a multi-featured blog as a public relations and marketing  tool 
within a hugely elaborate  website.

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