Archive: July 2006
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After finding PayPerPost on digg I was quite intrigued by the concept. My addiction for blogging made me interested in how I could make more money doing something I enjoy. I've made decent money from Google Adsense, but I definitely found that certain topics pay more than others.
When I looked at the list of opportunities you can post about with PayPerPost I found that a number of the topics were things I'd already blogged about previously. In fact, many of the topics correlated to things I'd already blogged about.
Even more important is that PayPerPost gives me more motivation to post frequently to my blog. In fact, since I've started posting much more frequently my blog traffic has increased over 24 times what it was before PayPerPost. This increase in traffic has been directly related to my more frequent posting.
Today, life was even better when my Paypal account said, "You got Paid to Post!"
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Thanks for the testimonial Techie! If any more of you have a testimonial to share we would love it. Send them to testimonials[-atsymb-]payperpost.com.
So now the question is what are you going to do with that extra cash? Some bloggers will be receiving several hundred dollars in the coming week. I'd love to know how you guys spend your extra money. Video games? Food for the kids? Drunken ragers with your friends? Lets hear it!!
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Help a brother out! Donate a post every once and awhile and you can help change the world.
In our current model people aren't required to disclose anything about PayPerPost in regards to their post. We are finding that most part people who aren't disclosing are giving honest, accurate reviews and insight. People are blogging about what they care about and what interests them. They are being careful to create content that their readers will actually enjoy.
On the other hand we are finding that some people that do disclose use discloser as an excuse to create less compelling content. These are people who just think of the service as "payola" and don't put much effort into their posts. They will meet the minimum requirements but aren't necessarily interested in the topic they are writing about. We have taken to calling these people "Dissys".
In my opinion someone who discloses but will write about anything to make a buck is worse than someone who does not disclosure but will only write about what they are truly interested in.
I believe requiring disclosure gives bloggers an open license to "pollute the blogoshpere". It's a free pass for bloggers to say "but I said I was getting paid for it, what did you expect?". If you are being honest you don't need disclosure because it's what you truly believe.
If I personally had to choose between a blogoshpere created by Dissys or non-disclosers right now I choose the non-disclosers. Before someone twists my words... I am not saying that all people who disclose are bad by any means, I am simply pointing out a trend we are monitoring. Dissys are a subset of the bloggers who disclose.
I have been saying this all along…we don't tell people what to say we are just providing topics that could be are of interest.
Advertisers? Bloggers? What do you all have to say about this? Ideas?
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