Comments on: When should you write “for exposure?” http://writerway.com/2009/02/12/when-should-you-write-for-exposure/ A blog by Karen G. Anderson about best practices for website content and blogging. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:55:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Karen G. Anderson http://writerway.com/2009/02/12/when-should-you-write-for-exposure/#comment-124 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:50:00 +0000 http://writerway.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/when-should-you-write-for-exposure/#comment-124 I wrote this post because writing (free) for a friend’s start-up site, and being edited by a great editor involved in the project, resulted in a portfolio that helped me land a job at Apple. But that was during the dot com boom, when writers with a print background needed to put together a web content portfolio. Now there seems to be a need to show that you know how to write using SEO keywords.

]]> By: jadeejf http://writerway.com/2009/02/12/when-should-you-write-for-exposure/#comment-123 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:27:00 +0000 http://writerway.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/when-should-you-write-for-exposure/#comment-123 This is excellent advice! I’ve certainly done my fair share of writing for exposure, and sometimes it was worth it, but a lot of the time it wasn’t. I always found it much more gratifying to get paid, even if it was peanuts :) However, there are a few cases where writing for exposure can work well- I love blogging in part because it does that, but it’s on my terms, and I’m interested in what I’m doing.

I semi-recently left a job where I was indeed being paid to post comments on other sites intended to draw traffic. I can’t tell you how uncomfortable that made me… You’re right to tell folks to run. Ick!

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