In the previous post, Blogging For an Income, I talked about Pay per Posts.
We love to give our opinions, don’t we? And, just as true, we rely on other people’s opinions to give us insight when deciding on which big screen T.V. to buy or who we have work on our car.
Twitter reported that 34% of bloggers post opinions about products, brands and services.
The principle idea of pay per post is to bring something very popular to something highly sought after and make a win/win situation.
Pay per post is an advertising program that works by bringing advertisers and bloggers together. The advertiser pays the blogger to write reviews about their services or products and post those reviews to the bloggers site. The blogger gets paid for the review and the advertiser gets another promotion for their product, as well as a link to their website.
You write the review in your own tone. Constructive criticism is encouraged, but rude or hateful reviews will usually be declined.
Pay per post sites or services give writers and advertisers a meeting place. They give them a place to come together and negotiate.
After the advertisers and writers agree to terms, payment is made by the advertiser to the pay per post site. The advertiser gets their review and the blogger gets paid (by the pay per post service). The pay per post service collects a cut of the earnings for their efforts.
Payments range from as little as $2, to as much as a $1000. $1000 is a pretty good ‘extra’ income, wouldn’t you say?
5 Top Pay per Post Sites
Sponsored Reviews works in two ways, you can create a profile of your blog to attract advertisers or you can search for advertisers and bid on jobs.
The ability to find your own customers is a favorite feature for many bloggers who go to Sponsored Reviews.
Sponsored Reviews pays publishers with PayPal every two weeks, and they are always on time with the payments.
Some blog owners don’t like that you are required to keep the review on your site forever. Truth be told they should be glad to have the extra content.
One other distraction for some bloggers is that in order to land any jobs worth doing you will need at least a page rank of 3 on your blog.
Another Pay per Post site is Blogvertise and it has been in business since 2006. Blogvertise declares their payment rate for new
blogs/accounts is $4 – $25 per entry. Most fall in the range of $ 5-$15. They say that payout rates vary and are often based on the popularity (i.e. traffic) of the blog. Traffic is measured by an independent third party.
Payout, which can be made through PayPal, comes 30 days after your assigned task has been approved.
In my research I only found one person who claimed they were dissatisfied with Blogsvertise. The complaint was that each time they called support they had to talk to a different person. Compounding that frustration was that several times the answers conflicted with an earlier conversation.
LinkWorth products include text link ads, paid blog reviews, in-text links, in-content pay per click ads, rotating text ads, hosted content pages, article submission, directory submission and many more.
Bloggers who use LinkWorth for paid blog review say they like how easy it is to register and get their blogs accepted.
Another plus that many like is the no minimum earnings for payment. In otherwords even if you only earned $5.oo this month you will be paid that …………$5.00.
The most common complaint against LinkWorth is that the many advertising opportunities it offers can make navigating around the site difficult and confusing.
ReviewMe pay a minimum of $20 and up to $200 for writing a review. The rules say that blog posts should be a minimum of 200 words, but the average accepted review is 300 words.
One big plus for ReviewMe is that you are not obligated to write a positive opinion. You will still get paid for the review if it’s negative.
The most common complaint is that at first it is hard to get your blog accepted. But, they give you some great advice on how to improve your blog to get it approved.
ReviewMe will share a whopping 50% of your earnings; however they do pay a minimum $20 which is better than most other services.
SocialSpark claims, “Our mission is to empower everyone to value and exchange content, creativity and influence.”
SocialSpark pays by a “point” system, which at first may draw concern. But the conversion is $10-$60 for a 300 word blog post. You’re paid your points 30 days after your review is accepted. You can then convert your points directly in to cash and receive payment via PayPal.
Leave a Reply