First off, let me lay out who am to the degree that you can get some context.

I’ve been blogging for five years, participating in forums two years longer than that, and using the Internet for eleven years. I had a career as a licensed clinical professional counselor prior to health issues which are managed but incurable.

My health issues and the desire for a flexible schedule drove me to explore part-time work options on the Internet and as financial opportunities popped up I’ve tested the waters. I was a bookseller part-time for five years through Amazon. However,  after a few years it seemed that the forces that be did not want me in that field–plus my allergies to musty books were out of control so I stepped away from book selling permanently over a year ago.

I still needed a part-time income stream so I continued to explore Internet options and I came across paid blogging which admittedly, I knew nothing about prior to that time.

I signed on officially with one paid blogging company a year ago this month and when that one seemed to be foundering I added another four months later. They are very, very different and my interaction with the other bloggers is on the one side pretty heavy–on the other, none at all. And that is fine–can’t be all things all the time–and get my work done.

What has taken a disproportionate amount of my time in discussion at the one paid blogging site is the question of what constitutes the bare minimum in English-language abilities so your blog is coherent as well as lucrative for the advertiser?

The company for which I do the most work also has the most–I must be blunt–terrible bloggers. I’m embarrassed to be lumped in with them. To make the situation culturally charged, the low-quality bloggers have a poor command of the English language yet take on jobs that require at least an average command of written English. Then they fill the unpaid parts of their blogs with half-English blathering about what they had for breakfast and how they miss their country of origin.

At times I get very upset and resentful of these people because as I stated they are not qualified for the job and they make both the company and bloggers that are outstanding in comparison look bad by association.

Why would the company allow such bloggers into the system, having screened everyone who blogs for them?

That’s a really good question. If the company is strictly looking for numbers–for vast quantities of bloggers of any caliber to do paid blogging–then they are on the right track.

If they care about attracting quality advertisers who are looking for quality bloggers the company needs to make some very big changes in the selection process.

I care not if this seems politically incorrect. Facts are facts when two-thirds of your most awful bloggers are originally from one country. Yes, there are crummy bloggers around the globe–that’s a given–but allowing crap bloggers to clog your system is wrong-headed and counterproductive.

Time for some big changes before this big, new part of the company crashes and burns.

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