With so many bloggers monetising their blogs and many new bloggers starting blogs just to create an income, I thought I would take a look at some of the different paid to post schemes and my personal experiences with each.
PayPerPost – probably one of the leaders in the field, PayPerPost accept absolutely any blog and give you a chance to earn some cash. It is a marketplace to bring together advertisers and bloggers, with the emphasis on control being between these two parties. Advertisers make offers to bloggers and then approve, reject or ask for changes. Bloggers set a price for the basic post plus an additional price per word based on their PageRank. So on a PR2 blog, you are recommended to charge $4.50 for a 50 word post and $6 for a 200 word post.
InPostLinks – as with PayPerPost InPostLinks is from the Izea family. Here your blog must have existed for at least 3 months and have a good ratio of content to paid posts. Advertisers create opportunities and segment on location, subject and PageRank, but that is when the fun begins. Advertisers also state the price they want to pay and then it is open to all eligible bloggers to grab a slot. When a decent opp arrives you may have seconds before all of the available slots are gone. So you need to be checking regularly for open offers to get a lot, and when you get them for your 200 word post you can be getting next to nothing. Up to $5.50 is sometimes offered for PR2 blogs, but mostly the offer price is $1.50 / $2 and sometimes the offers are less than a dollar.
SponsoredReviews – this is a system that I have tried to like, but not succeeded. It takes a lot of effort to get a few posts. You need to look through the list of available jobs and bid on those that are interesting. If you are lucky, an advertiser might accept your offer and you then have a week to do the work. Sometimes advertisers will make you a direct offer that you can accept or reject. It sounds good, but I’ve found the system slow. Next to no opportunities and then a few at once. Even with a few blogs registered this happens, with all my offers being to one blog for a few weeks, then rotating to the next one! Also, for a PR2 blog I get $10 offers, which sounds good but you only receive half of that. Given that sometimes the demand is for 400 words, $5 (or less sometimes) isn’t much considering the effort put in to get there in the first place.
BlogsVertise – in theory, quite a good system, but even with some PR2 and a PR3 blogs, the work has dried up. Just one offer of an advert for a bingo site (how’s that related to my sites?) in the last couple of months. Shame, the system worked well with the staff allocating work to bloggers. Typical tasks were 2 – 3 paragraphs of writing for $9 – $10 on a PR2 / PR3 blog. But approvals took an age and I had a few times rejects, usually because 2 weeks later the advertiser wanted the anchor text changing or something. The payment system was manual and paid out once the post was at least 30 days old. But being manual, sometimes they were forgotten for a while.
ReviewMe – I signed up, completed 1 review which I was paid for and that was the end of it. Just 1 of my popular blogs is listed, maybe a couple more might be more relevant?
BlogDistributor – the new kid on the block. At first I have to admit I did not like the way it works, but eventually I got used to it. You are allocated a task which you can accept (or reject) . You write the post, typically around 100 words, but the minimum varies (and is very strange, e.g. minimum 93 words!) and submit it for review. Their team review it, requesting any changes and then when they are happy they tell you what website to link to. I didn’t like this returning business at first (my login security being such a pain), but now that I am used to is and am seeing the annoyance of advertisers falsely rejecting on other systems, I am really getting to like it.
Out of these, PayPerPost and BlogDistributor are my favourites. PayPerPost just about wins as there is more work there, BlogDistributor is a bit too new and the tasks are repeating a lot, which is getting tiresome. Hopefully, with more bloggers on board to attract more advertisers, that system could become my favourite.
