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Please Donate To My Blog … Again!

A couple of months ago I wrote a post concerning Blogs that seek donations. I’m not really a big fan of Blogs that seek donations for the plain fact that there are better ways to monetize a Blog. I caught some static from some great Bloggers on the original article that have stayed with me and after reflection, I have decided to add another post, kinda an update of sorts.

The other day I was trying to bring another Blog online; which by the way seeks donations as it main source of income, but that’s not the point here. As my work continued, I ran into a major glitch that surprised me. For the life of me I could not get the content within one category to display on my homepage. After eight hours of Googling my brains out, I was suicidal and if I didn’t come up for air soon I was going to drown!

Into the next day full of anxiety, animosity and loss of sleep I found my answer, in the form of a plug-in. After installing the plug-in, I was simply amazed at the complexity of such a piece of software. I’ve seen some smokin’ hot plug-ins before, but man, … this takes the cake. I can just image the effort that went into this! This plug-in will let you organize for display any category, page, post, widget, or your cat’s nine lives any way you want! I absolutely marvel at someone sitting down, designing and writing this plug-in. Check this out!!! http://ace.dev.rain.hu/

Donate indeed!!! As I stated in the first post, I have donated to sites before for software and plug-ins. I color myself fortunate that I am allowed to donate via PayPal for such wonderful tools. Your careful consideration to the efforts of others will assure you of an enlightened future as a Blogger.

We have all seen them; Blogs with the little pay-pal donate to my cause buttons. However a Blog is not a cause, unless you get into the “.org” domain names. You see these donate buttons mentioned by the quote; unquote, ProBloggers as a way to monetize your Blog. For some reason, they always leave me dry. I see them used most often on software sites or plug-in sites. However that is a location where I have greatly benefited and yes I have donated to software and plug-in sites.

There is something that sets me back about the “donate button” being on anyones Blog, of course you don’t see them on the ProBloggers site, they are pretty much set. You mostly see them on the amateur Bloggers sites. When you reach a level of ProBlogger, (I’m going to use that term loosely here) your time is at a premium and you have to fly from site to site and cover as much ground as you can. I’m always willing to look at new sites be they Blogs or otherwise, but I can now size up a Blog, pretty quick. If I arrive at a Blog and I see where the site is monetized by either the donate button or with adsense, I know right away that it is not a “ProBlog“; I know that I don’t belong there. I’m gone!

I’m not saying that this is wrong or bad or anything else for that reason. It’s just that I’m personally left with an unprofessional feeling when confronted with one, at least as it pertains to Blogs. I would love to hear from you on this issue! What do you think about an area for donation on someones Blog. Have you ever donated to anyone’s else’s Blog?

Oh, by the way, I dare you! Yeah, that’s right, go ahead and click on that big donate button at the top of this post!