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wOOt! My all-time income rankings on PayPerPost went up!

I had been expecting to get kick out of the PayPerPost all time top earners top ten list for a few months already. I have stopped writing paid posts for PayPerPosts lately because it is a decision I made. The test of faith to see if I have the will to blog even if I am not making money. Moreover, I went through two very busy and tough months during May and April and I cannot manage the thought of making money on top of all the obligations I had to do.

But surprise, surprise, my ranking on the 10th position was somehow pushed up to the eighth. I think PayPerPost added my PayPerPost Direct income plus the referral fees income which caused me to rise again.

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So, let me enjoy this little moment before I am totally gone from the top ten positions as PayPerPost top earners.

It won’t be long now before my face disappeared……I have only USD9 pending in PayPerPost. That is nine freaking US dollars and not 9K, ok?

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Gone were the days when I used to make USD1,500 per month from PayPerPost alone.

So, did I lose anything now that I have only USD9? No. I had made USD14K in over a year. Now, I have my other means of making money. But ultimately, the satisfaction is knowing that with the USD14K, I can easily put at least two of my sons through college. My eldest son’s professional chef diploma costs RM30K for 2 years 6 months. And thank God that I am so blessed to learn as I earn while I share what I know. I know I had inspired a lot of other people to make money as well. I just hope they know how to appreciate what they had earned and not what they had missed out. Count your blessings, folks. Happiness comes in many ways, not just making money.

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. 27 Jun 08 | Income report, PayPerPost | Comments (11)

Matt Cutts of Google says SocialSpark is good?

I have refrained from writing paid posts from SocialSpark on my blogs with pageranks because I am paranoid of getting my pageranks demoted to forever zero. I was so afraid of being penalised, I even took off all the SocialSpark - Izea codes from my main blogs with pageranks. My earlier fears was - You never know how Google is going to treat paid posts with no-follows. They can change their minds anytime and we can get penalised for writing paid posts with no-follow links as well.

However, this recent interview seems to say that Matt Cutts finds SocialSpark within the ‘law of Google’ and it gives me a bit of security that it is ok to do that occasional paid posts from SocialSpark which uses no-follow links.

(newbies, please do not ask me the same questions over and over again on ‘what is no-follow?’ Please take your own time and initiative to read up on my older posts why I am always talking about pageranks and no-follow)

Here is something I took from Izea’ blog on the interview with Matt Cutts :

Matt Cutts: Yes. And, whenever I see progress I want to call it out and give props where it’s deserved. And so, I think SocialSpark has definitely progressed compared to PayPerPost. Google continues its policy on paid links in general, so just yesterday we put out a new call for any paid link spam reports, and we continue to act on this. We are willing to act not only manually, but also algorithmically. So, if people know of other networks that are not disclosing, we would be interested in hearing about that. But, I thought it was good to see that SocialSpark was using NoFollow.

However, note what Matt Cutts said about paid posts which are not disclosed and how they will act on them? So, be careful if you are making money online writing paid posts. There are penalties. Some of my blogs never gain their pageranks, ever. When you do not have pageranks, your traffic drops, your rankings in search results disappeared and you are forever doom. Trust me, I have both sides of the extremes, I know. I am a repented soul, where this is concerned.

. 17 Jun 08 | PayPerPost, pagerank | Comments (4)

Is SocialSpark helping you to make money?

I just log into my SocialSpark account and look around the available opportunities. I registered three blogs there but I didn’t install the codes because those blogs are my PR 4 blogs so I am not risking them by taking paid posts.

From what I see, the opps are not paying well, i.e. rather low amount for 200-300 words. Therefore, I am not incline to submit my PR 0 blogs. However, I do wonder how other paid posties find SocialSpark? Are there lots of opps to do? So far, have you been earning?

I also notice that there is another type of sponsored ad which if I am not mistaken is an ugly pop up ad that momentarily freeze your site during downloading. I had seen a few posties using it and I personally think that it is one of the ugliest pop up ads around. Worse than Adbrite because the thing will float around as well.

I saw one paying USD2.29 per day for the sponsored ad. Are you using it as well? I cannot try it on my PR 0 blogs because it is not allowed by other networks. So do you have these ads running on your site? Can I visit? :)

It is quite a chore to submit a blog to SocialSpark as it involves answering a freaking long questionnaire and selecting what to reveal and what to hide. However, if I get feedbacks from happy and satisfied posties, I may want to submit some PR 0 blogs. But before that, please let me know if PR 0 blogs get any deals?

So, is SocialSpark working for you? Or is PayPerPost doing better? (SocialSpark uses no-follow, PPP must do-follow). I am barely hanging on as the all time top ten earner on PayPerPost. I am expected to be kick off the top ten any minute soon as I do not write for PayPerPost that often too. Faster visit PayPerPost and take a look at my little avatar for one last time, will you? LOL. My current tab shows I have made USD14,686.75 from PayPerPost. (the figure you see on the main board is lower because it is not including PPP Direct and PPP referral fees)

. 22 May 08 | PayPerPost | Comments (8)

What the….spark?

I mentioned about SocialSpark the other day and like all good make money bloggers, I thought I would take it for a joyride so that I have something to blog about.

So, there was this post for USD27.50 to write about “I signed up for SocialSpark”. I showed an interest but apparently, I was put in the queue. It has been more than a week already and today, yahoo! I got a mail from SocialSpark.

Lilian,

You’ve recently reserved the Opportunity I Signed up for SocialSpark! at the $$5.5 offer price into your SocialSpark account. Now I’m not saying you have do it right. this. second. However, remember that you have 12 hours to complete and submit to this Opp! So, now that it’s in reservation, feel free to take a stretch or even a shower. Don’t forget to wash behind those ears!

Thanks,
The SocialSpark Team

But guess what? Now, the price is USD5.50. For USD5.50, they can take a number and queue up. I am so not gonna write 200 words post on a PR 4/10 to promote a company. Nah ah. Buh bye.

. 26 Apr 08 | PayPerPost | Comment (1)

SocialSpark?

I registered two PR 4/10 blogs with SocialSpark. One of them has a RealRank of less than 50. 50 means my blog is the 50th best blog in terms of traffic amongst all the blogs registered with Izea RealRanks.

Looking at that number, I would think that I will have vast opportunities out there for these blogs. But all I see in the marketplace are opportunities value at USD8.25 only. And with titles like ‘SocialSpark is great for mommy bloggers’, and the post requires 250 words, I will give it a pass.

You can use no-follow tags, of course. That’s a bonus. But then, knowing how rabid Google is, I wonder if Google may decide that having no-follow is not good enough and they go around smacking us to PR 0 again, with or without no-follow. Google may turn around and tweak some of their already confusing TOS and tell us that we have once again, breached their policies.

People keep insisting that with or without PR, it makes no difference. It makes a lot of difference, my dear. I have been there in the abyss of disappearing organic traffic or getting kicked to page number god-knows-where in the SERPs.

So, I thought of registering some of my other PR 0 blogs. But yesterday morning, one of the bestest paid post company I worked for sent us an email and gave us an ultimatum. I shall edit a bit of what was being written…’no yadda yadda pop-up banner garbage or you are out of our network’.

Whoa….such strong words. This means I cannot register those blogs in SocialSpark.

And that leaves SocialSpark as a flicker now, instead of the fire that I was expecting.

. 17 Apr 08 | PayPerPost | Comments (3)

Is PayPerPost aka IZEA really going to remove Google PR and use Yahoo backlinks?

I am so out of touch with the make money online latest news. My whole head is spinning with all the excitement, humour, suspense, thriller and drama that Malaysia politics and Malaysian politicians bring. Yeah, I know people see politics and elections as something serious and important. I see politics as mudslinging and bitch slapping fest and I love it! I get to put a finger in and I know I won’t get into trouble if I play with my words correctly. I get traffic spike, an increase of 90 subscribers within 2 days, a realrank of 10 and of course, ads income as well. So sez who politicz ‘r’ boring?

I finally get a chance to log into IZEA Boards and found that they have a spanking new forum. While looking through the threads, I found this good news :

Ted mentioned that they are aware of :

The top three issues we saw complaints about:
1. Get rid of Google PR (blogger issue)
2. More control over blog segmentation and selection of bloggers (advertiser issue)
3. The boards are not as friendly, open or as useful as they were in the past (blogger and advertiser issue)

I missed the survey but here are my responses to the issues :

1) I 100% support the removal of Google PR as requirements
2) Advertiser issue so none of my business
3) Correct, correct, correct. Saya mangsa penderaan anjiiing betinas di sana kerana hendak mempertahankan maruah, air muka dan standard beruk-gers dari negara kita. Saya masuk dalam bilik sulit yang spesel mia di mana kebanyakan orang tak ada eksklusif rights. Heh, kamu semua tak boleh nampak bahagian forum yang tersembunyi itu. Tapi percaya lah, bila saya bukak mulat saja, pasti kena hentam. Sebentar tadi, saya tulis saya pergi kencing di dalam sebagai petunjuk yang saya masih hidup lagi di forum tersembunyi itu. Heh.

Our (IZEA) response to these top issues is as follows:

1. We are now in the process of removing Google PR from PPP entirely, this has been fast tracked. PR is going to be replaced with backlink count. It is not a small change, it will take a few weeks given developer resource constraints.

You can read the whole post by Ted Murphy on the removal of Google PR and replacing with Yahoo backlinks as part of the requirement to take an opp.

Here are some of my blogs Yahoo Backlinks :

Make Money : 15,845

5xmom : 21,417

You can check your Yahoo backlinks from this site.

Now, if IZEA comes up with no-follow tags, I will once again rulez the paid post arena. Woohoo! This change of Google PR to Yahoo is good news too because I still do paid posts on many of my other blogs.

The above is the link to join IZEA if you are not afraid to ‘die’. :P For those of us who have blogs which are Google smacked, this means good news as we can once again make money writing paid posts. It is one of the best way to make money blogging.

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. 10 Mar 08 | Make Money, PayPerPost | Comments (8)

Competition, competition, competition

I hate competitions. If I enter, I must win. Or I won’t enter. But what if whether one choose to enter or not, one is part of it?

I have four blogs in the top 100 blogs list and I am not amuse at all.

Nay…..two of my blogs which I am really not proud of are there. I actually hope no one knows about those blogs but they are there.

I seriously have doubts now about this new ‘ranking’ method. You see, one of my blog which as I said, is one which I am not proud of achieved a ranking of 8. To explain, it is the 8th best blog out of the whole blogs universe.

I have doubts because I wonder if advertisers are going to be receptive to this method of ranking. I can easily get one spammy, thrashy, gossipy, grating on my conscience blog shoot up high easily. As a publisher, I know I am not giving value to my advertisers. I may have 50K visitors on a single day but those 50K are all perverts and not interested in child insurance. And that insurance company may have to pay sky high to get their link on the perverts-welcome blog just because their traffic is high.

You get what I mean? Of course, advertisers are smart enough to look at the average rank of the blogger and finding the right niche. But average numbers can be easily manipulated if let’s say you dedicated a few days catering to perverts. Yes, by now you should know that the highest number traffic blogs are those catering for the perverts, wankers, gossip mongers and insecure souls. Go on, run home and start one already! Hehehe.

Still, I am holding out for this new way of ranking. That’s why I am not telling you what ranking I am babbling about. I hope advertisers are receptive to the ranking, they don’t mind no-follow and we are off to spark the social community.

. 21 Feb 08 | PayPerPost, Stuffs | Comments Off
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