How often have you read a post and thought to yourself “Mm! I’d like to respond to that point!” or “Yeah! I agree with that!” or even “Moron! How could they say that!?”

Well, now Payperpost has figured out a clever way for you to be able to do that AND get paid to do it! It was all part of the recent upgrade to Payperpost, that allowed these brilliant new features. You can already see the tag on some of my longer posts. It looks like this: . In fact, you can click on this and review this post if you like.

What are the benefits of this program?

1. It’s actually a pretty neat idea for an affiliate program as it spreads the benefits around for both the reviewer and the post writer/blog owner, too. There is a delay of about 30 days before you are paid. But you will get paid and I will, too. Neat.

2. It helps to build traffic to your blog and to mine, which is something we both need and hope to create anyway, and traffic should go both ways, to your blog, and to mine.

3. If you are lucky and you hit a post that is on a PR ranked page, you may get something of a PR boost in the next update of Google’s data. This will help to grow your audience, too. In the longterm, the additional backlinks will help to sustain your website’s PR number.

What do I blog about?

Actually, I don’t care. You can write a positive or negative review, if you like. I would prefer though that you try to keep a balanced tone, and focus on saying helpful things, things that I could actually use to improve the website, and turn you into a regular reader!

When you’re done, notify me of the link, and I’ll do a Review posting of those blogs that link to mine through this program, much as JohnChow.com’s blog does. I think that’s a helpful way to promote your blog!

So, if you want to earn a little cash, write a review, draw some traffic, sign up for the review of one of my posts (not necessarily this one). Wishing you well on your bloggings!

When I started out hosting, it was very much ‘by accident’. I worked in a University where I had been involved in a departmental journal at around the time when all the Internet 1.0 hype was beginning.

So I offered to create a website on Geocities for the Journal. Lo and behold! It did generate quite a few tens of thousands of ‘hits’, enough to warrant the creation of its own website. Soon, I signed up with Dreamhost, which seemed to offer the most in terms of service for the dollar. One URL later (http://www.hjktefl.org) and our Journal had its own domain and a PR4! But it didn’t last! The department axed the journal because it wasn’t properly reviewed, and didn’t appear on a government approved list of journals. In fact, the department seems pretty much to have ‘disowned’ the journal… Ah! Well, but that’s another story.

By that time, I was already hosting several new journals, a school website, a couple of personal websites for myself and a friend, and, of course, this site. At the end of 2005, I had twigged that I could host sites well enough, and had enough skills to help other people to put up their websites, that I decided to approach a couple of people needing help, and see what I could do for them. I also had researched enough of the applications, and knew how they worked, how to install them, and how to find additional resources for them. I felt that I could at least provide a service to those who had been like me a few years previously!
Within about 3 months, I had my first two outside clients for hosting. You can find them on the hosting/customers tab to your left! Both of the websites are unusual and well developed, but QUITE different.

So, now my online hosting is growing very slowly. I have about 5 or 6 customers, some of whose websites you can visit from here (others will show up in the next few months), and I got to meet some great people this way, too, since I really only do business with people I can meet face-to-face, or at least, have met at one time.

I don’t know how, or if, the business can grow bigger; but I’m not in a hurry. I’m enjoying the challenge of helping people achieve something with their website. That’s great.