Bohemia Bunny

This Paid Gig Is Serious.

February 27th, 2007 by lynn under Paid Post

*Paid Post*

Right, you all know by now that I’m unashamedly blogging for money. Well, guess what? I just got paid today! Real money in my Paypal! I’m so thrilled, because I worked for that money, and I haven’t done any paid work since July. Again, I’m signed up with PayPerPost, and it’s been a good ride so far on this blog ad network.

For small fry like me with a low-traffic, low-pagerank blog, I get the opportunities that pay at least 5 dollars. I’m not complaining, I’m perfectly happy with the money I make. But if you have a high-traffic blog, and especially if it has a good ranking on Google PageRank, you could be making huge money. How huge? Well, there are posts that pay 50, 75 or 125 dollars each. They’re not any harder to write than the posts I do. The advertisers are offering large amounts because of the traffic they get from popular blogs. There’s even an opportunity that pays 1000 dollars, I’m not kidding. PayPerPost actually has a column on the dashboard labeled “Big Green”, where they feature the high-paying opportunities.
Apart from PayPerPost, another blog-for-money network is ReviewMe. The difference between these two - at least, a difference that matters to me - is that ReviewMe marks up their price by 100% to the advertiser, so basically half the money that the advertiser offers for the post goes to the company. PayPerPost, on the other hand, charges a 35% service fee, so more money goes into your wallet - or Paypal, as the case may be.

And the final testimony for PayPerPost probably comes from its own Wall of Fame, where the highest-earning bloggers are featured. These are the ones at the top of their game, and they’re earning serious money. So PayPerPost has enough high-paying opportunities to make it worth the time if you’re a popular blogger, while still being a profitable sideline for the little fishies like me.