Getting Paid For Blog Posting

If you want to get paid to blog, the easiest way to start is with PayPerPost.

The way Pay Per Post works is, you have to have a blog that is written in English, and is older than 90 days. You submit your blog to Pay Per Post for approval, and, once approved, you’ll be given a piece of code that has to be inserted into your blog’s HTML (don’t worry, PayPerPost will tell you how).

Once PayPerPost has accepted your blog and they’ve identified that your code is active, you’ll be able to view their marketplace.

When I first joined Pay Per Post, the minimum offers were around $4-5 per post for even the lowest ranked blogs (new blogs with a Google page rank of 0- PR0). When I had a PR3, I often got offers between $10-18 per post, and occasionally there were offers higher than that. However, with the change in the economy and advertising, PayPerPost’s marketplace has offers as low as $0.67. However, if your blog has at least a PR2, the offers are around $5 per post again. (Update- My personal blog is back to a PR3, but the top offers are around $9 at the moment)

You’ll need to read the Terms of Service at PayPerPost before you get started, but really, if you want to get paid to blog, there’s no easier way. Pay Per Post is more accepting than many other paid post services, and minimum word counts are usually 50, 100, or 200 words per post. To put that into perspective, this post has just over 270 words at this point.

The available opportunities to get paid to blog on PayPerPost’s marketplace will show up in white or green backgrounds. The opportunities with the gray background are opps that you qualified for, but have already been taken. The Pay Per Post oportunites with the pink background are opportunities that you don’t qualify for. If you click them, a window will pop up explaining why you don’t qualify.

Advertisers at PayPerPost are able to specify what they want- a minimum page rank, particular blogging platforms (MySpace is most often excluded, and blogger/blogspot is often excluded as well- a self hosted domain name is best), or a minimum tack rating. The tack rating is PayPerPost’s own rating system where advertisers that you’ve written for before have rated you. Very rarely will you be excluded for not having a tack rating, because most advertisers won’t rate you. They just want the links.

Any posts that you write for PayPerPost must stay live and unedited for a minimum of 1 year after the post has been approved. This is why I mostly recommend Pay Per Post and other get paid to blog companies for people who have a personal blog, rather than a blog that’s intended to bring in search traffic and advertising revenue. As a social blog, most of your readers won’t mind the occasional advertisement, particularly when branded with your own personality and style. (I have one friend who writes her PPP posts so well, that it reads exactly like her regular posts until you see the links).

Pay Per Post lets you take up to 3 posting opportunities a day, and up to 4 link only opportunities. They used to require at least one non-paid post in between paid posts, but I can’t find any information on that now. It’s quite possible that they’ve done away with that. You also can use other get paid to blog companies in addition to PayPerPost. In theory, you could make a decent living doing this, but there are only limited opportunities, and if your page rank goes down because of the number of paid posts you do, the good opportunities can dry up completely.

I recommend PayPerPost for people who have been blogging a while (at least 3 months) and want to get paid to blog on their own personal blog. It’s a nice way to make some pocket money, and if you’re in dire need for extra cash, taking all available opps for a week or two should give you a nice pay check. PayPerPost has always paid me on time, and the only time my paid post opportunity was turned down, it was because my page rank changed in between reserving the opp and submitting it for approval. Simply a case of bad timing.

Plus, if it’s your goal to eventually become a full time blogger, the paid posts teach you a little about learning to use keywords, linking strategies, discipline (if you’re getting paid to blog, you’re not going to wander off half way through the post), and if you do them well enough, could even be used as samples when applying for freelance blogging jobs.

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