paid blogging buzz

PayPerPost recently offered an opportunity for us "posties" to speculate on a "big" announcement that they will be sharing with everyone in the next few weeks. Seeing as majority of the opportunities that are currently sitting in my PayPerPost account are shaded in pink (meaning that the are not currently available for me to take them), it would be nice if PayPerPost's big announcement is that they are going to release those opportunities to me. Aside from that, perhaps they will be announcing a new way for bloggers to increase site traffic and gain more readership and subscribers to our blogs.

Other possibilities could include another attempt at a buyout or merger, like what had almost occurred with PayPerPost's move towards picking up performancing.com not too long ago.From a blogger's perspective, some of the things that I would like to see change at PayPerPost (and I feel that there are *many* other bloggers out there who feel the same way) would be to implement some stricter advertiser standards on the site.

I'd like to see sites that aren't just one page half-baked information sites whose true purpose is to trick visitors into clicking on contextual advertisements. I'd like to see more opportunities to actually review websites - opportunities that offer bloggers the capability to do a real review, and not necessarily be required to write in a positive spin (which is sometimes part of the offer requirements). In fact, I wish they would do away with the option to request positive feedback altogether. None of the other paid blogging services allow advertisers to force this onto their "posties" so why should PayPerPost? As an advertiser, it is all to easy to not see the ramifications of requesting positive feedback - especially if you haven't been doing too many paid posts as a blogger. I've been on both sides of the fence, and once requested positive feedback for some buzz on one of my sites, and now see how foolish that was.

I'd also like to see a ticket system implemented for communicating with the post reviewers, so that when we have questions, comments, or rebuttals we can actually talk to the person who is reviewing our post, and not have to try and force comments into the submission form in places where they shouldn't be, just so that we can explain why a rejection might have been ill-awarded to us.

The only other announcement that would have been extremely gracious on the part of PayPerPost would have been to offer free admission to their "PostieCon" event to all of their current "posties". As far as I can tell, very few people are making enough money to actually live off of with PayPerPost (except for Ted, and PPP Queen Colleen perhaps), so I don't think it is reasonable to expect most of us to travel and pay to attend a conference to hear more about how we can make a few hundred bucks a month with PayPerPost.

These are my lofty wishes as to what this announcement could be. I would imagine that I've probably totally off the mark, and it will have more to do with their reality startup show, as that seems to be where most of their efforts are currently focused.