How Can You Get Paid for Blogging?
Posted by chiefpro on October 12, 20081. PayPerPost
PayPerPost is the largest paid blogging service out there. With over 100,000 blogs in their system, PPP is a giant. With that size comes a full-time sales force to find new advertisers. Other pros are the ease of use, ease of entry (blogs must be 30 days old, with 10 posts), and payment reliability.
The major drawback is… Google! Google has launched an all-out offensive on PPP where they rank PPP blogs with a big fat zero (PR 0) when they realize it. A good page rnak of 3 can mean $15 for a 200-word post, but you might only have 30-60 days before Google takes away your PR.
2. PayU2Blog
A favorite of mine, PayU2Blog is a horse of another color. Instead of a marketplace where you look for and take offers, PayU2Blog’s administrators assign you offers only a weekly basis. This can be a good or bad thing depending how you look at it. The good thing is that you don’t have to fight for offers. Once assigned, you have about a week to finished them.
The bad news is that you are limited to whatever they give you. Another good point is that most offers are for placing a link only. You don’t have to write about the company or the product — you just have to insert the link in a post where it makes sense. A bad point is that each offer is worth only $5, but that’s not bad considering it’s only a word in a minimum 60 word post.
PayU2Blog also seems a little more selective in letting new members in. It might be difficult to join without a PR higher than 0.
3. SponsoredReviews
A relative newcomer to the ranks (although still over a year old), Sponsored Reviews is a marketplace like PPP. The different is that instead of taking and immediately completing any offer you qualify for like in PPP, here you have to make an offer for the job and bid a payment amount. You can makes hundreds of bids without getting a single taker, but then again, with a high PR, you could make $20, $30, or $50 a post.
A bad point is that Sponsored Reviews takes a 35% cut of your earnings off the bid you make (e.g. you bid $20, you only get $13). A good point is that you get notified by email when an advertiser accepts your offer. Then you have a few days to complete.
Other Services
There are lots of other paid blogging services out there, but currentlyt none of them float by boat, meaning they don’t provide a steady income and can be sporadic. These include:
Smorty (hard to get offers, fill up quickly, new offers not very often, $5-10 usual size)
Blogitive (not many new offers, offers are shown only after higher ranked bloggers turn them down, $5 for 200 words is a lot of writing)
Blogsvertise (good payout $5-$15 for 75 words, but not many offers, new offers emailed to you but not regularly)
CreamAid (an original, but lousy payout (starting at $1), even if you take offer you are not guaranteed payout)
ReviewMe Marketplace (not many offers, high word count, low monthly maximum on offers you can take)
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