Advertising on blogs

I read this post on Egoina's blog yesterday, and feel that I have to write about this myself too :)

I am completely for advertising on blogs (as long as it does not go to exaggeration of course) because we bloggers are actually like free newspapers, all info is completely free for you who read. But it is very important to always stand for their advertising, always be honest and also mark clearly when it is advertising. Surreptitious advertising is illegal and lying is immoral, it's that simple! :)

I would Never ljuga om en produkt för att tjäna pengar! Och de få betalda inlägg jag gör är markerade med “sponsrat av ….” men dom är också ärliga.

But there are blogs out there that are both illegal and immoral, and companies that do not care what. Surreptitious advertising with honest content does not do super big damage maybe, but if you are tricked into buying something that does not live up to its promise, it will cost you money!

Egoina publishes an email conversation between her and a company, which was actually so pathetic that it became fun haha. I received a similar email just a month ago, I would get several thousand for a post but one of the criteria was not to write in the post that it was sponsored, and when I wrote back that it is illegal and that I do not agree regardless of the amount, I got the answer:

"It is very possible that what you say is correct, can not take a position on this as I do not work at the tax office"

Haha that answer was just crazy :) The conversation was not even with the company that I would advertise for, but an intermediary who works to be the contact between companies and blogs. Disaster.

My purpose with this post is simply that you should advertise with a pinch of salt on some blogs, do not be fooled! But you can trust me to 100% and I actually think most blogs can be trusted! :)

Och ni som har följt mig länge kanske minns min Revitalash-incident med två andra stora bloggare för några år sedan? Jag vill inte gå in på detaljerna igen, men kortfattat så användes mina före- och efterbilder med fransnäringen Revitalash för att marknadsföra ett helt annat märke! Den ena bloggen skrev att hen inte visste om detta utan “fick bilderna från företaget”. Men den andra bloggen visste att bilderna var falska, för den personen hade t.o.m. använt samma bild med mina ögon till ett Revitalash-inlägg tidigare. Med andra ord, det fanns två inlägg från denna person som marknadsförde två olika ögonfransnäringar med exakt samma före- och efterbilder. Suck :)

Och jag tror inte att någon av dom hade testat fransnäringen för då hade dom väl haft egna före- och efterbilder, och det var säkert flera som gick och köpte fransnäringen för att de “såg hur bra den var”.

If you see these eyes somewhere, they are mine, and I have used Revitalash and nothing else :)

Hope you can see the difference between good advertising and bad advertising, and that you have a wonderful Wednesday !! ♥