Update 1. mai 2008: I are no longer using PPP services. I want my PR!
As I’m looking after ways to monetize this blog, getting paid to do reviews are a natural way to make money. Today VikingBlogger.com finally got approved at PayPerPost. Long story short they provide bloggers with reviews, where they pay them (the bloggers) between $5-$200 per review. (Usually in the $10 range)
There are several houndreds of offers avalible to get rewied, but you can’t pick them all. The advertisers that makes the offers can set some terms which your blog have to meet. The most used one is page rank. If you don’t have x high page rank you don’t get paid to review the product.
Since VikingBlogger.com don’t have a page rank yet I’m not looking on a high income stream from PayPerPost yet, but it might get alright with time. And don’t fear, I’m not going to fill this blog up with paid reviews of all sorts. If I’m doing a review it’s going to be something that has to do with the theme of the blog, or something that I’m really interested in. (ex. phones)
$20 sign-up bonus (kinda)
When you get your blog approved you got at least one offer avaliable for you, and thats PayPerPost themself. Write a little “I joined PayPerPost” post at your blog, and get paid $20 doing so. (Like I am now!)
Are you selling reviews on your blog? Thoughts?
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I guess it’s fine for you to use PayPerPost because you don’t have any google PageRank. Google is slammed PayPerPost bloggers by completely removing their page rank. For someone like me that receive google traffic, I can’t risk to lose my google PR. I guess PayPerPost is not for everyone. For beginner blogging is hard to use PPP anyway, they ask to have at least 3 month blog.
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Google page rank dosen’t affect your serps. I got a site that got slapped by google, but still recives the same amount of search traffic.
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I’d say, be careful..
Readers are keen on sponsored reviews as soon as you start making short reviews for 10$ a pop, thats when you’ll start losing readers and traffic…
Rather then that go for expensive reviews which are heavily detailed..in my opinion you should have a good number of interviews of bloggers and reviews of websites on the blog already for the sponsored reviews to be really effective ;p
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You did a good thing by joining PayPerPost!
I joined and lost my PR3, but was none to upset. I fianlly started making real money from PPP. Most bloggers will say that using PPP will make you lose readers.
I would have to disagree.
Most of your readers are blogger that are trying to make a dollar as well. The will understand that you have sold out to earn some money and most likely skip over the paid posts.
Or you can try to mask the paid posts. I write my paid poss in my unique style just like every other post.
@KiwiPulse: They changed the TOS recently, it’s now only 30 days!
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I used PayPerPost when they were quite new. Worked well, but over time the opportunities dropped off. Still, it was a nice earner, paying more than I was getting from any more traditional ads on the site.
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I initially used PPP when I first began doing sponsored blogging. That was prior to Google slashing PR on blogs doing paid posts.
PPP told everyone not to worry about it, and that the opps wouldn’t drop off. The *very next day* PPP updated everyone’s blog rankings in their system, and suddenly people were having to scramble to make $5 and $7 per entry.
I now work with other companies who pay considerably more than that (as in, sometimes 10x more) for less work and faster approval.
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This a personal decision, but Google will penalize your PR for doing PPP. Because the links are not “no follow”.
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I don’t like PPP at all, I think it distorts what blogs should be about. I look at blogs to get people’s views, insights etc, not to have them spruik some product to me.
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Sold your soul? aww you don’t have to be so hard on your self. In fact, I’ve been joining these paid blogging companies lately and I’ve made my own assessment about it here. (pardon me for posting my link)
http://silkenhut.com/conclusion-is-paid-blogging-good-or-bad/
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Among all the get paid to blog programs, PPP is the worst. They forced bloggers to insert PPP sponsored badge in their paid review and this may cause bloggers’ pagerank to go down.
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Oh I know the feeling…Google took my PR and now I do not have enough to get paid at PPP because they want people with PR…it makes no sense whatsoever.
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hm, would they not leave your PR if you setup NF tags on the sponsored thingy? I’ve got a PR3; and I don’t want to lose it
I’ve also got some really great SERPS, so if I’m going to lose them, then im not going to do PPP
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Did you decide against using them? I haven’t seen you use them on VikingBlogger anyway.
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Philip: I haven’t decided yet actually. But your right, I haven’t used them yet, and relly not sure if I’m ever going to do it either.
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