Comments on: Pay Per Post to Launch New Features

By: Kid

Kid — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:00:41 +0000

Money for posting? I think that is no good, especially fo blog-readers.

By: AzGun

AzGun — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:23:49 +0000

Good and really useful post for all readers and specially for me, thanks!
;)

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:08:54 +0000

I don’t understand why people use Pay Per Post. Don’t they know that they take a HUGE 35% from advertisers, when that money should be going to bloggers?

Thats why I started buyablogger.com a free service for advertisers and bloggers. Cut out the middleman, put advertisers in touch with bloggers directly, and pass the savings on to the bloggers.

Check it out at http://www.buyablogger.com

By: Grokodile

Grokodile — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:20:34 +0000

I’ve recently experimented with the PayPerPost folks, as an advertiser, and it was interesting.

Although it is relatively simple, there are some confusing aspects to all the new features and capabilties that require more help for a first time user.

Because I was trying to announce a blog directory I think there was a synergy between the bloggers and the advertising opportunity that was offered to them. In such a case, as you mentioned, it can work very well. However, while reviewing the blogs that took advantage of my opportunity, I did notice that some of the reviews didn’t mesh as well with the content of the blog or simply didn’t come across as believable.

Of course, the better bloggers write their post in such a way that only the disclosure makes it clear that the story is actual an ad – unless you’ve seen the same product mentioned many times already!

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Become a Consultant Blog >> Andrea the Consultant — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:47:23 +0000

I wasn’t very impressed with PPP. They won’t allow you to take part if your archives use anything other than a month-by-month-based display of posts. Simply having a full blog listing with dates in reverse chronological order isn’t good enough. I can’t for the life of me understand why they can’t just search for the month.

By: Brandon Hopkins

Brandon Hopkins — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:10:47 +0000

Personally, I do advertise with PPP and now that they require a disclosure, I won’t be advertising as much.

All I wanted was the links, and was willing to pay $5 per link to get them. Now all you have to do is search for the PPP disclosure text and devalue those links…bad for me.

By: engtech

engtech — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:24:42 +0000

My take on Pay Reviews is that you’re hiring someone to give you their opinion on your product. The minimum cost should be fairly high to get quality reviews, payment should be disclosed, and links should be NOFOLLOWed.

The $5 a post payment schemes do nothing but encourage people to generate human spam the search engines can’t find.

By: Mike Panic

Mike Panic — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:57:50 +0000

I’m considering doing PPP with my new blog but need to wait the minimum 3 months of having the blog online. I’d like to get feedback from others using it though, before I just chuck them up on my site, so I’ll be lurking the forums of their site for a while to get a better feel for it and see if it is worth my time.

By: urbanmike

urbanmike — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:48:38 +0000

Darren, with this recent post, would you have considered paid promotion if it were offered? It seems like you are mellowing a bit on the topic?

By: Ash Srivastava

Ash Srivastava — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:42:17 +0000

Those are some neat features………thanks for the reporting! I still have 1 month before I can become a PPP member

By: VC Dan

VC Dan — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:19:36 +0000

Nice reporting Darren…

By: Martin Lindsey

Martin Lindsey — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:39:56 +0000

Hey Darren, thanks for the monetization tips. Thanks for the lead in to MyBlogLog too. That’s how you build a blogging community the way I imagined it should be done.

Have a great one!

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:19:01 +0000

no payment for this post – just reporting the news.

and the comment was in the moderation queue – not deleted :-)

By: fred

fred — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:51:54 +0000

Yeeez, that was quick, did they pay you to delete the comment as well?

By: fred

fred — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:48:53 +0000

How much did PPP pay you for this post Darren? was it good money?

By: ejobsvacancy.com

ejobsvacancy.com — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:26:07 +0000

Hope the pay per post features may be more advantages to bloggers and can maximise monetization also ..

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:00:40 +0000

I think PPP just moved to a model that was more appealing for bloggers and advertising. They had to do it, and they did it. I’m hoping the new models will be better for bloggers in terms of monetization