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Mar
2008
Posted by Robert as Reviews
For small bloggers, a perfect way to monetize your blog when you are first getting started is through payperpost. I recently joined after learning about it from John Chow Dot Com.
As you know, PayPerPost is a website that helps bloggers (among other creators of content) find advertisers that sponsor a specific type of content. Usually, advertisers post opportunities that request content, such as feedback, reviews, or buzz about a product or service. A blogger chooses the opportunities that are related to the content of his or her blog. When the blogger completes a post about that opportunity, PayPerPost reviews the post, certifies that it meets its requirements, and pays the blogger.Â
So PayPerPost helps you get paid for blogging about the topics you love to write about. It’s a genius way of linking advertisers who are willing to pay for opinions of their products and services with bloggers who are willing to write about them. You can easily earn several hundred dollars per month. No joke. Â
Other benefits of PayPerPost that I like include:
-A marketplace of over 50,000 bloggers. You can network and meet other bloggers, and that, in turn, will help you achieve more exposure for your blog.
-It’s easy to use. It’s automated, and you can serve yourself by picking and choosing the opportunities you want, writing about them, and submitting your posts for review and payment.
-The website has a section with videos from other bloggers who give their own testimonials about how PayPerPost helped them monetize their blogs. It illustrates just another example of how the Internet has created so many opportunities for profit.
I’m going to maximize the opportunities I have with PayPerPost and hopefully report on some positive results in the future.
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6 Responses
Wiellyam
March 19th, 2008 at 11:57 am
1Yeah, PayPerPost have a good rank with other Pay Per Review/ Pay Per Post program.
But, it’s very difficult to approved a blog. maybe PayPerPost is the first PPP program on internet.
Robert
March 19th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
2Hi Wiellyam, and thanks for the comment. It took me over a month and a half to get approved. PayPerPost requires that you have your blog running for a certain amount of time, and that you have a certain number of consistent posts. I guess it’s just a way to narrow down the field of qualified blogs. But these requirements aren’t that bad. If you have a blog, and you post every day consistently, you should be able to get approved in a short time.
Douglas Slingerland
March 19th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
3I am sorry but I can not honestly recommend payperpost to anyone. I had started using payperpost and creating paid oppurtunities on a daily basis. This was a great income source, but it often took 7-14 days for the post to be approved, then that started rejecting my posts! They used the excuse that I wasn’t posting “original content” and started skewing the definitions of words in their ToS to do anything but pay me the money I deserved.
Once they started rejecting my posts and thus denying my rightfully earned money, I knew I would never use them again.
I hope you and all of your followers encounter a much better experience. Tread lightly, though.
Robert
March 19th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
4Douglas, thanks for the comment. I value good information like this from readers like you. I know that PayPerPost has that strict requirement that you have to post original content before and after a sponsored post. Did you follow that? If so, did PayPerPost really start rejecting your posts?
How else did they skew the definitions of words in their ToS?
If you want, e-mail. I appreciate any input that you have.
Luke
March 21st, 2008 at 1:51 pm
5Sounds like an interesting opportunity. I am not sure it’s my style, but perhaps I will try it out some day. If so, I would be careful to be original and thoughtful about how I did them.
I recently read a rather chilling article (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/selling-links-that-pass-pagerank/) about how Gamma Knife surgery for brain cancer was being promoted with paid reviews. Really that strikes me as a bit unethical, for someone with no experience in brain cancer to write positive reviews of a potentially dangerous medical technique. Such reviews should only be written by patients who had a positive experience, or medical professionals who have actually used the technique.
Makes me question the whole idea of paid reviews. But perhaps with the right controls it would be okay in some cases. We have to get paid somehow, and someone has to write reviews. It just needs to be done carefully.
Robert
March 21st, 2008 at 10:14 pm
6Luke, thanks for the comment. I wholeheartedly agree with your argument. The thing with these paid reviews is that they encourage, if not require, you to write about things that are related to your blog or that you know about. Obviously, this blog is about money, and I would NEVER write a sponsored review about brain cancer or any type of surgery. I would only write a review about a service or product related to money, investing, finances, real estate, etc. Anyone who does write about something they know nothing about should look in the mirror and question his or her ethics. Everyone needs and wants to make money . . . but not at all costs.
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