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.

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