Last year, when I started blogging, I would have never imagined that one can get paid to blog. I knew that you can display advertising on your blog, and wait for visitors to click on your ads, to bring you revenue. Since then, I discovered that you can write about things you find worth talking about and get paid for that. There are a few sites which offer such services for bloggers. I signed up with four of them, and until today, PayPerPost was the one which proved to be the best, in terms of available opportunities and ease of choosing what to write about.
It is true that it takes several days until they validate your reviews, and that after validation you still have to wait 25 days until you actually get paid, but at least you know that you are going to get that money. It is also true that other networks (SponsoredReviews.com) pay you two days after you write a review, but you have to wait for a long time until the advertisers approve your request to review their site (thing which may never happen). The open opportunities offered by PayPerPost are much better and much easy to take, despite that fact that you have only 6 hours from the time you reserve an opportunity until the time you publish your review.
Getting accepted in the system is not very hard if you have a blog which has been around since several months ago, and where you publish several times a week. You have to make sure, though, you read their TOS, because in order to get accepted, your blog must have chronological archives.
It’s been less than one month since I’ve subscribed with PayPerPost, and they are already my second biggest money maker for this blog, for October. I choose to review only products that I like, and only for those advertisers who allow disclosing the paid posts.
And guess what? Because of the rule imposed by PayPerPost to have at least one regular blog post between two paid ones, I find myself motivated to post more often, and this translates in more readers and bigger traffic for my blog.
Although my first experience with PayPerPost looked rather painful, the following weeks proved me that it was worth signing up with them, so at the end of the day I can classify this as a positive blogging experience.
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PayPerPost is a great way to monetize your blog before ppc advertising/link sales/affiliate sales/etc. take off. Getting paid to write posts can do wonders motivation wise.
Yes, you’re right. However, we should be very careful not to lose our loyal readers because of the paid posts.
I thought that too, that it’ll motivate me to write more! but that one post I wrote on payday loans, I got at least 5 emails asking/suggesting that it is not fresh perspectives and I should not take sponsored posts! Not only that, I didnt even get paid for that since they say i didn’t reserve the ‘opportunity’ before posting! I remember I did but they dont seem to have any record of it! and now the company has taken the opportunity off!
Pearl, I think it works, but you have to select only those opportunities which are somehow related to your topics. I’m sorry you didn’t get paid for that
Another suggestion: make a separate category for paid reviews and remove it from your feed. You’ll have less complaints.
that’s an interesting suggestion, Simonne, to remove the review posts from the feed. But wouldn’t it have any conflicts with the paid review companies?
No, at least PayPerPost doesn’t mention anything about the feed. All they want (amongst 100 small things) in this respect, is that the posts are published like the regular ones, and displayed on the front page of the blog (indeed, I thought I might timestamp them with past dates, but that’s not OK).