PayPerPost:
Make Money Blogging

PayPerPost is a great way to monetize your blog. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of getting paid for specific blog entries and you have been struggling to earn money with your blog, then you're going to be very happy with this opportunity.

Every paid blogging company (and there are several - full reviews will be coming for each one with which I have made money) operates differently. One of the things I like best about the PayPerPost (PPP) blogger control panel is that bloggers have the opportunity to pick exactly which opportunities they would like to take.

All the paid blogging companies with which I work offer writers the ability to accept or reject any particular assignment, but the difference here is that there are no blogging assignments per se. Instead, content creators log into what PayPerPost calls the Blogger Dashboard and have their pick of dozens of paid opps on any given day.

When PayPerPosts advertises that you are getting paid to write about the things you love, that is a pretty accurate assessment since you mainly pick the writing assignments that interest you.

How Much Money Can You Make With PayPerPost

That represents around an hour's work per day so I'm more than satisfied with the return on investment for my time. (Also, remember, when you blog that you are building an asset with the blog itself and each entry since you can find otherwise to monetize your writing.)

Speaking of investment, it is completely free, of course, to sign up with PPP. They (thanks to their advertisers) are paying you to blog!

They are the most transparent blogging company I have seen in terms of how much money bloggers can earn. The reason for this is that they publish (right on the front page of the site ) a list of top earners.

As of this writing (updated late August 2007), the top earner has made over $15,200 (fifteen thousand, two hundred dollars) in about a year and a month.

That is anybody's definition of a solid part-time income and even comes to close to some full tiem incomes. The number are all the more impressive when you consider the statistics from the previous update of this page. In April of 2007, the top earner had reached $10,100 (ten thousand, one hundred dollars). That means in the last four months, she has added over $5,000 (five thosuand dollars) to her total.

The numbers are updated daily on the PPP site they will be higher when you check them. As of of this writing, every blogger in the top ten earner category has made over $8,000 (eight thousand dollars). That same section of the PayPerPost website which has the overall earning information also shows top earners by month and by day so bloggers can get inspired by their fellow posters.

PayPerPost Pros

PayPerPost's awesome website makes it easy to find the highest paying opps because they highlight them on the front page under a section called "Big Green" and you can also sort the offer page by payout amount. These amounts are among the highest I have seen for paid blogging companies. These are probably the best per post rates you will find unless your blog qualifies as a high earner with ReviewMe, in which case, you may not be doing these types of paid opps anyway because you may have other sources of blog advertising.

In addition to the other positive points I mentioned above, PayPerPost operates its own forum for members to discuss issues and get help from each other. This is a huge advantage and really fosters a sense of community among bloggers. To their credit, I have seen posts and responses on there that are critical of the company. Those posts were not removed by the company. In fact, company reps read the boards and respond intelligently and respectfully to the criticism.

PayPerPost Cons

You're probably wondering if there are any disadvantages. No paid blogging job is perfect and there are a few things I wish were different about PayPerPost.

For the most part, bloggers must have their own domains. In other words, you can't use group blogs or what they call community blog networks such as WritingUp, BloggerParty, or BlogCharm. That's too bad for me since most of my old blogs are on blog networks. If I could use network blogs, I would have made a fortune by now. Bloggers are allowed to use MySpace blogs, but some advertisers won't allow their ads to be placed on those types of blogs, which is strange considering all the press that MySpace gets as being a great website traffic generator.

PPP bloggers are limited to doing two paid posts per day. (Clarification - this means paid posts from PPP. They don't restrict you from doing paid posts for other blog advertising companies.) This has fluctuated back and forth between two posts per day and three posts per day over the past year.

There was (maybe is) a glitch in the system that caught me a couple times. Once you agree to write a certain post for a certain advertiser, the system is supposed to reserve that opportunity for you for 30 minutes. It has happened to me a couple times that after writing the post and trying to submit it (well within the 30 minute limit), the system gave me an error message saying that all the available slots for that opportunity were gone. I have seen other people complain about that on the boards too. It is very infrequent, but annoying when it happens. To their credit, PPP has a large development team and they do work on reported issues. Also, they are very proactive about constantly upgrading the system. They release enhancements on a continual basis.

PayPerPost pays via PayPal 30 days after the post has been submitted. Some paid blogging companies pay weekly and one even pays before you write the posts. The terms at PPP state that paid blog entries must be left up a minumum of 30 days so that is their reasoning for the delay.

Believe it or not, there is controversey in the blogosphere over the concept of paid blogging. (Perhaps the critics have never heard of product placement in movies and TV shows, but that is another story.) PPP has been a leader in promoting disclosure. PPP requires bloggers to have either a site wide disclosure statement explaining that some entries are sponsored or to mention in the body of the post that it is sponsored by an advertiser.

PayPerPost Tips

• The paid blogging opportunities are called "opps."
• Bloggers are referred to as "Posties" on the site.
• Sign in to the site several times per day so you can discover which opps are new and highest paying.
• E-mail / Technical Support Ticket support is very slow when you have questions or issues. (It has improved over the past year, but it still too slow.) Luckily, you can get help from other PayPerPost members by visiting the comanay provided forum. Someone will always respond to your questions in a timely fashion.

Overall, PayPerPost has the best website of all the paid blogging companies and I highly recommend bloggers consider creating a new stream of income with their blogs through them.