Blogging My Life...Purim is Monday night and it is customary to give gift baskets to friends on Purim day. Oh Nuts sent me a Ocean Mist Purim Basket, which I received today. Here is a picture:
Oh Nuts traditionally gives me stuff during the Jewish holidays. I really think it is incredibly kind of them. I don't expect it and it is totally not necessary but it is always nice to get one or two around the holiday season, from readers that want to say thank you.
I feel bad writing this, because I feel like this might be considered a paid link. But honestly, when I received schwag in the past, even from search engines I included links to them or to the products they sent me, thanking them.
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Hi Barry,
Firstly Chag Sameach to you!
Secondly, here's how I feel about paid links. If you get paid to write a post or are compensated to write a post then it's paid.
If you're given something without the expectation of anything in return, i.e. the gift basket, then it's kosher :-) You're writing about a personal thing which you enjoyed. There's nothing wrong with that.
Guy Kawasaki was "lent" an Audi A8 for a week and wrote a crazy long review of the car as a result. Did Google ban him? No. Had he hated the product, he would have shared that too. He loved it, blogged about it, done.
If you eat the nuts and hate them, you'll blog that too.
Posted by: Olivier Amar | March 8, 2009 11:52 AM