Bloggers: Can you make some money?

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Many bloggers are now taking part in the exploding paid for blogging ad market, and many marketing companies have grown up in the last year or so expressly to take advantage of this market. There’s ReviewME, Payperpost, Blogitive, Blogsvertise, and more recently Loudlaunch. On this blog, we will do a full review of each of them soon, and explore the differences there. Right now, Payperpost are help me to get paid to blog for this and my other blogs.
Payperpost have a number of advantages for a blog like this, and some significant drawbacks, too, as a way to make some dollars.

Advantages

  • There are typically 60-100 opportunities advertised in their market daily, so there is plenty of fare to choose from;
  • Bloggers get to choose the offers that they are interested in;
  • The payment rates are variable, with segmentation kicking in, there are opportunities running from $5 to $1,000 even sometimes;
  • You can, if you choose, create a successful income from the efforts;
  • Payments are regular and reliable;
  • And the regular blogging really helps drive traffic.
  • All postings require disclosure: this is good for reputation.

Disadvantages

  • For the niche blog, you may find that there are insufficient postings on a regular basis;
  • Some postings may be ‘unattractive’, e.g. medicinal products, loans, etc.
  • Some of the offerings tried out (perhaps because it’s a market system) may seem ridiculous, such as $4 for a 300-word post on bee hives or whatever.
  • Bloggers may feel that postings, as advertisements, are permanent and therefore should command appropriately higher fees – $4 for a posting seems cheap when you think that it will develop into a deep link at some point.
  • Bloggers may feel (and rightly so, from what I have seen some blogs do) that they don’t want their blogs to become billboards with requisite ‘filler’ posts, just as a means to get revenue. (There are plenty of ‘splogs’ doing that on http://www.blogspot.com and http://www.blogger.com)
  • All postings require disclosure: this is bad for some advertisers.

There are considerable upsides and downsides to this program, but it is well worth considering if it is worth it for your blog, your reputation, and your time. In the right situation, and right hands, this could be a gold mine for small bloggers, as well as big bloggers.

This post received sponsorship from Payperpost.com.

50% off promotion for advertisers!

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I’m currently working on my second posting for ReviewME but they wrote anyway about the following promotion. I thought you website owners might like to take a look at the special promotion they are having:

ReviewMe Bloggers,

We wanted to inform you about a special ReviewME promotion we are running that may be of interest to your readers. We have found that advertisers who have used RM have been impressed and keep coming back for more reviews. So our biggest challenge is getting an advertiser to try it once. To encourage new advertisers we are offering a special coupon code that will give advertisers 50% off any review they purchase this month. The cool part is 100% of the sale price will go to the blogger so there is no discount in payout to you.

For advertisers to use the 50% off coupon they simply have to enter: trial

into the coupon code at checkout. This special promotion will be good for the rest of the month. Thanks again and we hope to have some reviews ready for you soon!

ReviewME Publisher Support
support@reviewme.com

It seems like a good deal to me! They are reducing their share of the loot so that the blogger gets it all. It’s certainly worth checking out! If you want to write a review of this website, you can get one for the price of $15 for this month! Don’t forget to enter the coupon code, on signup.

Disclosure: I am paid for reviews for this website, NOT including this posting.

How many posts do you have in your drafts section?

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I was just going through my drafts, when I began to wonder how many drafts other people have in their blogs.

My current number on this blog is actually about 17. It was nearly 30 at one point. I create a lot of drafts for ideas about things to write, but sometimes I forget to write them, or something else grabs my attention, or I am too tired to do the research (I post late at night or early morning), or the post just gets outdated. I’ve had a lot of good ideas for posts for tomorrow’s blog, but the next day the story already seems old.

So tell us how many posts do you have in your drafts? Why do you put posts there? How long do they stay there?