Dhivael/Anne’s Hyperactive Blog

Eek!

But, anyway, yes… this is me. Thanks to Robyn and her Paying It Forward, you get to see what I look like. This is my ‘eek! The camera is 2 feet away and gonna flash in my eyes!’ look.

So why do I have ‘I ‘heart’ Ted’ on my forehead? Well, Ted is Ted Murphy, the owner of PayPerPost, the one who made it possible for me to blog and get paid for it. Paid blogging has to be the greatest invention since sliced internet. Hooray for money!

By the way, do you know how hard it is to write on your own forehead in the mirror? Go try it some time.

PayPerPost is introducing a new contest: $1k Tuesdays. Every Tuesday, they will give away $1,000. You have to be logged in and take the opp, but there will be $1,000 up for grabs. This will run until the end of the month (so they’re going to give away $4,000 total).

I know I’m eagerly awaiting to see if I can grab this opp. $1,000 would help a lot, considering I just had a computer die on me. I desperately need a new(ish) computer. At least, I need another computer that runs.

I’m not sure if they are trying to attract new bloggers or just satisfy bloggers that have been around for awhile. I know segmentation has hit a lot of people hard (myself included) and it doesn’t help that they’re running opps with only a $5 minimum, even if the advertiser wants a PR7 blog until PostiCon (not sure when that is, can’t remember). I guess they did this to attempt to attract new advertisers, but it’s not fun.

PPP is building itself up to be the biggest blog advertising site on the internet, so I guess that’s a plus. The more advertisers they have, the more money I can make.

I just can’t wait for bigger opps and I really want to win the money!

It’s been awhile since I wrote about PayPerPost. I’ve still been doing online advertising for PayPerPost, but mostly on other blogs. They say they have good news that they’re going to announce in a few weeks. I think the last big news that they announced was the segmentation. That, well, didn’t work out so well at first…

So what’s this great news that they’re going to announce?

I hear it’s going to be a big change in the way payments for posts are paid out. Up until now, the only way you could get paid by PPP is via PayPal. However, now I hear that they’re going to combine their store with the payout. In other words, you’ll be able to purchase things with your PayPerPost money.

They’ll be adding more merchandise, and not just PayPerPost branded things. You’ll be able to buy things that are related to blogging in various ways like new computers, printers and books on writing, internet promotion, etc. You’ll be able to ‘bank’ your cash until you have enough to purchase these things. This will definitely be a bonus for people who, for various reasons, are unable to get a PayPal account to receive money.

I’m sure that people will love this new feature, especially since the merchandise will be sold at a 10% discount vs. other sites.

If you have a high traffic blog, you could make a good deal more money blogging than a lower traffic blog. Of course, I’m sure you probably guessed, or hoped, that. One way that you can make money blogging is through PayPerPost. If you’ve got a really good site, you could make $1000 in one post. PayPerPost goes by Google Page Rank and Alexa rankings to tell how good your blog is and what sort of pay scale you should get.

Unfortunately, most of us don’t have PR9 blogs. But if you have any PR at all, you still have the potential to get a much higher minimum. I cannot recall the pay scale exactly, but I think PR4 has a minimum of $35 per post and PR5 has a $100+ minimum. But don’t quote me on that! I do not have an advertiser account, so I cannot go look. But it has been talked about on the PPP blog and on the forum.

For advertisers, there is an up side to all this. They only pay 35% of however much they pay bloggers. That means that if you post a $10 opp, you also have to pay PayPerPost $3.50. Other places similar to PPP, like ReviewMe, charge advertisers 100%. So for a $10 opp, you’d end up paying $20. Ten to ReviewMe and ten to the blogger. What this means, obviously, is that an avertiser has the potential to reach many more customers through PPP with the same budget.

Of course, as soon as I post about not blogging here much lately, PayPerPost releases a new thing that I can blog about. PayPerPost itself!

At PayPerPost, you can set it up so that people get paid to review your posts. Any post at all in your blogs. The down side of this is that the person who blogs about your post must not be already enrolled in PayPerPost.

The up side of this is that if you have a blog that qualifies, with at least 20 posts in the past 90 days, then you can get $7.50 from reviewing one of these posts. I don’t have this installed on my blog, because I think it can get to looking a bit spammy. Many people, however, like it and have put it on some or all of their posts.

On the other hand, it can be a great way for someone to generate traffic. A person who hadn’t thought about signing up for PayPerPost sees that they can get $7.50 for writing about a post they might have written about anyway. They sign up for PPP and get $7.50. The original blog owner gets another $7.50 for reviewing the new blogger.

Not a bad system there. It’s definitely a good way to get people interested, as if the money that it’s possible to accumulate by blogging through PayPerPost wasn’t incentive enough.

I haven’t been able to find much to post here in this blog at PayPerPost lately. I’ve got other blogs I’ve been posting for, but not this one. A lot of the opportunities there are asking for PR, which this blog doesn’t have. But my other blogs do.

There must be a few things left that I can take for this blog, but I think most of my blogging is going to end up being done on my ‘niche’ blogs now. They do have okay Google PR.

I’ve re-added the PayPerPost affiliate link to my page. It was on my Christmas template, but not on my ‘every day’ template. Unfortunately, I’ve not made any money off the PPP affiliate program. I am supposed to get money when people sign up. But I haven’t even really had anyone clicking on my link. Oh well, it doesn’t cost anything to have the link up. And maybe, just maybe, I will eventually get a person or two signing up with my affiliate link.

So if you have a blog and you want to post blog ads to make a little extra money, click on the link in my sidebar. At the top of the page. Can’t miss that.

I’ll get $15 if you sign up, you’ll get money for blogging. Everybody wins.