If you have been following the Pay Per Post category you might be wondering how to complete posts. There are always a lot of questions in this area, so here is some help!

Hopefully you have set up a PayPerPost account and claimed a blog or two. If so, then there are only two more terms that you need to be aware of – Leads and Opportunities.

Leads
The system will send you leads, which give a bit of information about the job and allow you to either say that you are interested, negotiate a price or indicate you are not interested. This, for some reason, confuses many people who have not read up fully how it works. If you say you are interested this does not mean you will be doing the job. Likewise, negotiating does not guarantee the work.

If the requested price is higher / lower than you would normally want to work for, hit negotiate and type in your price. If you are happy to do it, then hit that you are interested. As soon as you do this the lead will vanish from the screen. Select any other blogs from the drop down menu and process those leads.

If you are interested or have negotiated, then this is flagged to the advertiser who sees a star next to your blog as an indicator that you are willing to do the work. They might then invite you to do the work, which takes us nicely to the next section.

Opportunities
This is what you want! This is where an advertiser has selected your blog and wants you to write a post for them. All of the details are there, so read them well as advertisers get upset when bloggers do not follow the instructions properly. If the opportunity ask for an In Post disclosure, then you are expected to mention somewhere that it is a paid post.

But basically write a post in which you can mention the link(s) and is at least the required number of words. Usually you have to write the post around a subject that is relevant to the link. Do be careful when pasting in the link(s) as certain visual editors will remove the signs, so make sure that you paste in the links only in HTML editor.

Then publish the link, review the post and copy and paste the link into PayPerPost. It should be approved within 3 days (if you have followed the instructions correctly) and 30 days after submitting the post to the system, as long as it still exists with the links in tact, the payment moves from the pending to the earnings amount. Once it reaches $50 earned (or less, if you don’t mind the $2 cashout charge), you can transfer it to PayPal.

Many people do struggle with submitting posts and the automatic checks. These are nearly always caused by pluggins adding to or changing the link. For example adding rel=”nofollow”, target=”_blank” or some form of javascript to count the clicks. All of these will cause the check to fail, so if you are having any sorts of problems disable any plugins that could be doing this.

In the final installment I’ll look at quickly setting up a new blog – if you are interested, just look through the PayPerPost category.

If you have been following the PayPerPost series, then this is the final installment – how to quickly set up a new blog.

For some people, getting started earning money blogging quickly is essential. But if you don’t want to do the full setting up of a blog on your own hosting, how are you going to start?

Some people look at using WordPress.com, because of its community feel that should proivide instant traffic. But, WordPress.com does not allow advertising or paid posting and if they discover you are doing it your blog might be deleted. Other free services are likely to do the same, so check the terms and conditions of any free blogging system that you are using.

At the moment, Blogger.com does allow these activities, so it is well worth setting up an account there. But advertisers are quite often reluctant to pay for adverts on free hosted blogging platforms. It is far better to use your own URL for your blog, but if you click around the settings of blogger you can register your own domain name through them for not too bad a price.

So sign up for an account with Blogger, create your first blog and within the settings menu go through the process of registering a new URL to use. Then, when you sign up to PayPerPost, give the new URL name that you have registered and advertisers will see that there has been some investment on your behalf in your site, which encourages more to give you some opportunites.

Hopefully you have gained something from this series. Do feel free to leave any comments about anything else you would like to read about in the field of blogging.