Simon’s Notes

I don’t know how many of you noticed that at the end of every one of my posts, I’m offering an opportunity to make some money by simply writing a review of that post. I’m a little surprised that nobody has taken up that offer yet. Maybe you’re a little skeptical and maybe you’re wondering what its all about.

How many of you have heard of PayPerPost.com? If you answered yes to that question, wonderful, you can go read something else now. But if you haven’t heard of PayPerPost, you’re missing out, and I’m here to make sure that you get with it.

PayPerPost.com is a site where advertisers can purchase blog reviews for their product or site. And its also a place where you as a blogger can make a little money by posting different reviews for various advertisers. If you want your blog to start earning some serious money, then you have to start doing paid reviews, but if you’re still new to the blogging scene its going to be a bit hard to get advertisers to buy directly from you, and that’s why you need to start looking into programs like PayPerPost.

How To Register
Registering is actually the easiest thing provided you meet their criteria. To qualify as a blogger and do reviews for PayPerPost your blog must meet the following standards:
1. Your blog must be at least 90 days old and have at least 20 entries during those 90 days.
2. Your blog cannot have a post gap of 30 days, so post regularly.
3. Your blog has to be in English, and all posts must be in English.
4. You got to be 18 years old or older.
5. You have to be prepared to disclose your relationship with PayPerPost.

Once your blog meets these criteria, you’re on your way. You can now submit your blog, and if you’re a US citizen, you can also submit your tax information. After thats done you just sit back and wait for your blog to be approved, generally it takes 48-72 hours for blog approval.

Making Money with Reviews
There are two ways that you can make money from writing reviews. The first way is by using PPP direct, and the second is the Marketplace.

PPP direct is a service whereby an advertiser can order a review straight from your blog. Doing things this way has many advantages, the most obvious being that you can set your own price, and it looks cool to have a ‘Hire Me’ banner on your blog. On the downside, its very, very hard for a new blog to get any reviews this way, and when one finally comes in you have to give half of your revenue to PPP, so if you are charging 20 dollars per review you only end up with 10.

The marketplace is a great starting point for any new blogger. Here you can accept offers from many advertisers, so its not dependent on them picking you. Sometimes advertisers place minimum criteria for reviewing blogs, but there are still many offers that a blog with no rank can participate in. This is a great opportunity for you to strut your stuff, if you have a good writing style, then you might find it much easier to get specifically hired in the future. These offers obviously don’t pay as much as if you were setting your own price, but after all, beggars can’t be choosers :)).

Affiliate Program
As any great program out there, PayPerPost has an affiliate program that you can leverage to make even more money. In fact, if you had taken me up on my offer to review one of my posts for cash, you would have had to sign up for PPP and I would make $7.50 by referring you, the good news is that you would’ve made that much also, so its a win win situation. If you sign somebody up without them doing a review you get 15 dollars instead of 7.50 once they get approved. So its a choice between more cash or a little cash and a backlink, I’d go for the latter.

Ok guys, if you haven’t signed up for PayPerPost yet, I really suggest that you do that now. The benefits far outway any excuses you might have. If you want some imidiate results you might want to start by reviewig one of my posts and getting paid for it. You really have nothing to lose.

Simon

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A few minutes ago I sat down at my computer to make my one or two posts for the day, and I was suddenly hit by an unsettling realization, I had writers block! For those of you that don’t know what writers block is, its when you sit down at your computer, you think that maybe something great is going to come to you but all you end up writing is blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

There are a lot of elaborate theories for getting rid of writers block, and one day I’ll give you two or three of my own. But today the solution was actually very simple. I started surfing around other blogs, and checking my stats for the hundredth time when I decided to check how I was doing with Technorati. I love Technorati, they always have something nice for me when I’m down, but nothing in the world could have prepared me for this:

Some of you might be wondering what in God’s name are you supposed to be looking at and why is it so special. Well if you squint a little at the middle of the picture, you’ll notice that ‘Simon’s Money Notes’ is ranked number 1 and I’ve got a nifty little ‘Top 100′ badge next to it. I always knew I’d get to this stage but I never imagined that it would happen so soon.

Baffled, I wondered what had become of the mighty John Chow. I was a little disappointed to find that he was also ranked number 1. At this point I started getting a little suspicious, so I decided to check who was on that damn ‘Top 100′ list anyway. It was the exact same blogs that were there yesterday and the day before. I think I really started wising up at this point, and I thought that maybe I should check a blog that I knew had a lower rank than me, they would’ve been happy to see that they were also now number one.

After this ordeal I felt a little cheated, but I also felt a little relieved because I had finally discovered the secret to getting rid of writers block. Go check Technorati, because with Technorati every body’s number one.

I couldn’t resist.

Simon

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