payperpost difference

PayPerPost recently announced their new model for monetizing blogs called "Review My Post". You basically include a button at the bottom of your blog posts which offers new bloggers the ability to review your post, and earn $7.50 for doing so (you can earn $7.50 when they sign up, too).

The nice thing about this new model is that even people who don't want to put sponsored posts on their blog can participate, and the reviews that they do on other people's blogs don't have to be for the sponsored posts. You can also build blog traffic because other bloggers are linking back to your blog when they review your post.

PayPerPost is now requiring a "disclosure badge" on some of their posts now, like this:


I wasn't sure how this whole PayPerPost thing was going to turn out, but in another thirty days I will have earned nearly $1000 with them - not too bad for a program that I was expecting a little extra cash from, eh? Right now, the real trick is to get your pagerank up for your blog, as there are better (higher paying) opportunities for the more popular blogs. They have also begun using segmentation so that advertisers can narrow down their sponsored posts to certain demographics. I had predicted this change a while back, and am glad to see it (even if it means that I don't get to blog about whatever opp I want to). It makes for more targeted discussion, and means that I'm not blogging about things that I wouldn't normally cover in my blog.