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Is PayPerPost trying to kill competitors, bloggers or suicide?

lilian — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:01:01 +0000

I thought it is April’s Fool when I received a mail from PayPerPost, signed by Ted Murphy that advertisers only need to pay USD1 for each post.

So, I never give much thought to it. I didn’t bother to sniff around as I am very busy lately. FYI, I am taking a course on Citizen Journalism and am learning Scriptwriting, Video Journalism, Citizen Journalism and Video Editing. Big bombastic words but all rather interesting to me, so far.

OK, so I thought Ted was joking in the email :

My hope is that we will find a balance that works financially for advertisers, bloggers and IZEA. With that in mind, we have made the following changes: – Minimum total cost per post reduced to $1.00 – Minimum word count reduced to 25 words with a link only option This is a limited time promotion that starts today and ends at the end of the month. Please realize that pricing will still effect that rate at which bloggers accept your offer.

BTW, I got the email because I was an advertiser on PayPerPost, as well as a blogger.

Back to this issue, I received another alert email from another paid post company I am working with. I won’t reveal the content though. Then I realized, “Hey, Ted is not joking after all!”

Oh well, I no longer write for PayPerPost and I have collected all the money due to me. So, I do not care if PayPerPost is throwing shillings on the road for beggars. You know what they say…You pay peanuts, you get monkeys. No wonder Google hates PayPerPost and smacked all of us bloggers to PR0.

I guess Ted has some brilliant ideas behind this. He probably wants to kill off the competitors out there. Some of us who got on the bandwagon of writing paid posts in 2006 still have other companies to fall back on. For the rest of you bloggers, enjoy your fifty farking filthy cents. It is an insult to us bloggers. Fifty cent per piece? But then fifty cents is a lot of rupee, isn’t it? Advertisers, outsourcing, eh? You sure you won’t get your companies killed by Google?

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Can we still make money online writing paid posts?

lilian — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:36:43 +0000

I have never written for SocialSpark and still am puzzled how it works. I did try but when the post was given to me, the amount offered was much lower than what I bid. So, I didn’t participate.

Frankly, after all the hype from Payperpost aka Izea aka Socialspark, I never see it taking off for me. Now, I only have a miserly USD55 pending. However, I have to-date made USD15K from PayPerPost. So, I shouldn’t complain.

(PayPerPost referral)

So, to those bloggers who are new in this area call make money writing paid posts, you may have missed the wonderful time we had more than a year ago. Back then, we could make USD400 per night!

Now, the chances to make money writing paid posts have dwindled. The paid post companies are no longer rewarding bloggers with large payout. All advertisers want to take advantage of the sea of bloggers so they throw USD5 and asked for PR4/10 and want 300 words! I will tell them to take a hike. If you take that, your PR will disappeared so it is not worth it. But if you can stay below Google’s radar or you don’t care about pagerank, writing paid post is the easiest and fastest way to make money blogging.

Back to my title question ‘Can we make money online writing paid post?’, the answer is ‘Not anymore.’ But don’t take my word for it. Give it a try and good luck.

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

lilian — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:25:49 +0000

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.

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?

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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Matt Cutts of Google says SocialSpark is good?

lilian — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:42:14 +0000

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.

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Is SocialSpark helping you to make money?

lilian — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:50:23 +0000

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)

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