I promised a couple of weeks ago a series based on ways to turn your blog into a money making machine, so about time I actually started to put down the ideas!

So, to start with, my most successful and probably my favourite way to monetise a blog is via PayPerPost.com. I’ve already talked in a lot of detail on these pages about using PayPerPost, so what is it that makes it so good?

Well the latest version, PPP4, is just an open market place between bloggers and advertisers. There are absolutely no acceptance criteria, other than you own a blog. That blog might have been created 10 minutes ago on a free system and you can still submit it to the system and hope for work to appear.

Earning Money
You earn money quite simply by posting on your blog. The system provides the link (or links) that you have to post to your blog, maybe a few requirements and a minimum word count. You write the post, submit the link and the advertiser approves it within 3 days, or can request changes or just reject it outright. Should they not approve it in 3 days, it is auto approved.

30 days after submitting the post, as long as it is still found on the same URL and the link is still in place, the fee for that post is transferred from your confirmed balance to your earned balance. When this reaches $50 you can cash it out, although if you are desperate, you can cash out less than that for a $2 fee.

How You Are Paid
By PayPal. There are no PayPal fees to cover – these are all prepaid by PayPerPost, hence the minimum cashout or $2 fee. Payment usually arrives in seconds into your PayPal account.

Who It Is Suitable For
One word – bloggers!

Whether you are low or high traffic, low or high Page Rank, few or many Yahoo backlinks you can sign up and get posts. Recent changes have made it easier for advertisers to pick those bloggers who are from native English speaking countries, which seems to be moving opportunities to these places and away from non-native speaking countries, so if you are from one of these then you might not get as much work.

Also, there are many complaints from bloggers about low levels of opportunities. But, usually the blog is full of spelling or grammatical errors, or too much advertising or other aspects that are putting advertisers off.

If you have a good blog, say PR2 or above, then there can be plenty of work at a price that you set yourself.

The Disadvantages
Yes, there are a few problems. Advertisers set up the opps themselves and sometimes get the setup wrong, demanding hundreds of words per post having clicked the option for just a link only. However, maybe there has been a system change as I haven’t seen that recently.

On the same theme, some advertisers request 30 word posts and 3 links and other equally silly requests which do them no good and can harm the blog.

Summary
If you have a well written blog with a few Yahoo Backlinks showing, then you should be able to get at least a few opportunities from the system. PR0 / PR1 blogs seem to get a lot less work, but there is some there for them to get going. As with any of these systems, the work is in fits and starts. But it is well worth joining and probably the best of the lot.

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