A Review On Paid Post Sites - PayPerPost

Over the past few months, I’ve written posts that have been sponsored by the likes of PayPerPost, SponsoredReviews, Bloggerwave, and Smorty. I thought it was time to write a review about them, so over the next few days I’ll be posting about each.

PayPerPost
The granddaddy of this line-up, this is the one that has paid me the most overall. They have a lot of opportunities to choose from, but it’s the quality of the selection that bothers me the most. I remain firm in my decision to only take opportunities that have some relevance to my blog and what I like to write about. If you don’t follow this philosophy, then you’re likely to earn even more income.

I like the immediacy of choosing an opportunity. As long as it’s available and your blog qualifies, then you can nab it.

The amount you can earn for each post varies from $5.00 and upwards of $20.00, on average. That’s one of the things I like most about PPP because you know the price you’re looking at is what you’re going to get as opposed to other services that take a cut. Not that I’m against them taking a cut, but as you’ll see in a future post, SponsoredReviews has a minimum bid of $5 of which, because of their cut, you get only $3.25. Who wants to write a post for three bucks?

What I don’t like about PayPerPost
The downside to PPP, IMHO, is that sometimes they’re a little too strict with their rules. For example, you can’t have two paid-for posts next to each other. Plus, it takes them so long to review the posts you’ve written and the payout is once a month. I guess that’s better than waiting for it to reach a large amount before payout.

Another is that you end up seeing the same old opportunities, or the really good ones are sitting there right before you, but you can’t take them because their allotment has already been reached or your blog doesn’t qualify. At least you can benchmark the advertiser from your list to help cut down on the clutter.

Take my advice
As with any service like this, you may be tempted with taking an opportunity because of the compensation being offered. The advice you hear most often is to write about things that are relevant to your blog, so maybe a little willpower is in order when trying to choose an opportunity to write about.

If they email you about a post, DO NOT reply to that email. I found out the hard way. I wrote a post that they rejected and told me so in the email. I had three days to make a correction and still get paid. I didn’t read the part telling me not to reply to the email, so the response I was waiting on never came, and I lost the opportunity to get paid. Aaarggh! Oh well, live and learn.

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