Making Money

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.

Website Proxies: an interesting opportunity?

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“… you could try something that is almost guaranteed to make you money fast and quick: Proxies.”

mubin in his blog publishes a series of 5 posts that look at how to set up, run, and monetize a proxy service. He also provides some cautions on what not to do!

This is an interesting series, and a service with tremendous opportunities for helping those who are otherwise restricted by their countries’ censors.

I’m not exactly sure of the cost structure, though. I don’t quite understand the expenses involved as I would think that you’d need your own server to be able to run a service like this. So monthly upfront costs could be quite high.

Revenue sources would be primarily ads served by Yahoo!, Adsense, etc., though text links might also do very well. He suggests you try affiliate marketing, too.

It seems though from his own posting that one of the revenue streams comes from selling the site on to others. So do read the thread and make your own decision.

Actually, I think that I will check out my own TOS and see if I can install a copy of PHProxy in my own private areas: I can figure out how it runs and works, and I can use it to access websites that I can’t get to right now.

A word of caution: do check your hosts TOS. Some will NOT like such software. And you may get banned for using it!

PayPerPost Review ME Program: Viral Networking Brings Benefits

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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!