I have been eager to do a review on PayPerPost for you guys. It’s a site that has had a lot of attention in the last few months – both good and bad. Unfortunately, i have not been able to. I have signed up with 3 different emails (2 from my own domains and hotmail). I have not yet received the verification email from any of these sign ups. I contacted them with a different email again and once more ive had no reply.
In a last attempt to spend some money on advertising there so i can do a thorough review i signed up (twice) to the forums. Once more i could not post since i didnt receive any verification emails.
Id normally expect there to be a problem with my email servers when something like this happens however i get emails from everyone else no problem. Plus i tried with my hotmail account and checked the junk folder.
Although i couldnt get my account verified on their support forums, i was able to browse them and read posts from bloggers and advertisers. I was disappointed with what i read. Have a look in the Questions & Answers room to see what im talking about. Many of the bloggers sounds like they just post the minimum number of words needed to get paid. It doesnt sound like any thought is being put into it.
To be honest it seems like the relationship between advertisers and bloggers over there is sour.
This is just speculation from myself from what i have read on the boards. If i ever get an email back from their support team (i wont hold my breath) then i will spend $100 or whatever just to see what theyre like. Though i suspect the review im getting from ReviewMe uses a better system.
Brian Heys has been trying it out and has wrote a good post about it today entitled ‘My mini PayPerPost campaign‘. I’d recommend checking it out – Brian raises some interested points about the site.
Wanna try it out for BloggingTips?
If you have a blog and want to try out PayPerPost on behalf of BloggingTips then please let me know. I can send you some cash via paypal to give it a try. All that i ask is for the blogger to write a good post about it here letting us know how they found the site.
Thanks,
Kevin
Hi Kevin, and thanks for the link. What you say about many PayPerPost bloggers posting the minimum number of words needed to get paid and that there doesn't seem to be any thought going into many paid posts could be correct. Out of three opportunities, I had one bad one, one borderline, and one that was quite good.
I have, however, just today had a reply to my blog post from a guy who claims to be a blogger, advertiser, and PPP investor. He is saying you need to have twenty or more opportunities funded before you get the most accurate picture of what PPP can do. Check out his reply.
i got the very same email Brian from him.
i do still want to try and use it at somepoint in the future so that i can do a proper review because i really shouldnt be forming any hard opinion of them based on posts etc on their boards.
However, its concerning that any blogger can just post about you and then you have to pay them. I know you can specify pagerank etc but i still want to have full control over what sites advertise me – well, if im paying for it
im looking forward to seeing how you get on with it.
Hey guys,
To be accurate, I suggested 20+ POSTS as a minimum, not 20+ OPPS. Each OPP is like a marketing campaign that includes a certain number of POSTS.
Of course, the more OPPS you do with varying opp descriptions, the quicker you'll maximize ROI. Bloggers enjoy opps that get them to think and leverage their unique creativity/perspective instead of just ones that say "talk about me". In fact, I believe quality correlates as much to the creativity in the topic/description as it does to price.
I'd also encourage you to state in OPPS that you'll be reading the posts and commenting on your favorites — providing an extra incentive for quality. Finally, use PPP's rating system (like eBay buyer/seller feedback) to reward the top posts and discourage the poor ones — increasing marketplace quality over time.
As a PPP blogger myself, I find it rather disappointing that some of the fellow bloggers just meet the bare minimum. I usually go over the required words, especially when I want to raise my opinion.
I also have to agree with what VC Dan says about bloggers enjoying opportunities that have descriptions that let the blogger give their own perspective and creativity to the post.
Personally, I enjoy writing posts that advertisers have given the leverage in making it unique with our own perspectives, but at the same time incorporating whatever website or service they want within the post.
What I'm not a fan of is the advertisers who say for example are willing to pay $5.00 for a 300 word post. Plus, to top it off, they don't give you a good description just something like "Please review this website." Okay….but then you visit the website and there's barely any text besides a paragraph on what the website is about. That's the annoying part. At least provide bloggers with some information that they can feed off of to make their own.
Also, just a heads up, when you do get accepted as an advertiser and are ready to put up some opportunities, you might want to consider setting PRs to 3+. I noticed that some bloggers with lower than PR3s don't really take the time to write an appropriate post and have spelling errors like there's no tomorrow. Now that's some, not all.
thanks for the heads up Tina.
i was perhaps a little too negative in this post as i havent used it yet (although i did point that out in my post).
im frustrated that you need to sign up with 3 different accounts and emails for an advertiser, blogger and affiliate account. Surely one account should have all 3. I want to get an advertising campaign started so i can do a good review of the site but i need to sign up as a blogger to view other opportunities as i dont want to throw away money testing stuff out. id rather look at how others write their ads first to get a better idea of how the system works.