Friday, 4 July 2008

Pay Per Post Frustration

Well its gone from having no opportunities to having more that I've ever had.

I have taken 6 or 7 opportunities in the last week and a half, sometimes 2 per day. The problem is that 2 posts have been disallowed. It just so happens that one of these was a $15 opportunity, the highest I've taken from Pay Per Post.

The reason the first post was disallowed was due to it appearing next to another sponsored post from pay per post. Fair enough I should have remembered their policy and posted a non sponsored post in between. But they didn't even give you the chance to re-submit the post, which I thought was a little poor seen as you'd got the post ready. Surely the advertiser would like the posts and links up sooner rather than waiting for someone else to write the post.

Anyway, fair enough on that one. In between this I took an opportunity from Social Spark, this post got approved and then I posted one from Pay Per Post. Now pay per post said that this post was no good due to the post around it not been good enough. I know they own both businesses through IZEA but c'mon. There is nothing to say that any post isn't "sponsored" from somewhere as most places ask you not to put that fact! So I felt a little sore over that one. A possible $25 extra to the total gone after the work had been done.

Anyway, 2 posts from social spark completed, (one still awaiting approval) and 7 posts completed and approved from pay per post (it so could have been 9). So once payments have been made I will update the totals.

6 comments:

Rhea said...

Besides this frustration, how it PPP working out? I'm curious about it and looking into it...

Phil said...

Hi Rhea,
It is definitely worth looking into. I have managed to take 8 opportunities in the last 3 weeks, all posted to the same PR0 blog and will get paid about $70 so far for these posts. If you have PR you can expect to double the opportunities and quadrupedal the income.

Give it a go and let me know what you think.

Eyebags said...

my blog was approved by PPP. the problem is i am PR0. So it is only given one opportunity. And after that, nothing follows. Is there anything i can do with my case?

Thanks.

Phil said...

Keep checking the availability for posts. I still have a blog that is PR0 and I have taken roughly 10 opportunities in the last month.

Sweet-love said...

Phil, hope you'll reach the target soon! I would just like to know how time-consuming your efforts are, e.g. what’s the average time you have to spend with computer every day to keep the current pace of earning? Ann of www.sweet-is-my-love.com
Hugs and kisses!

Phil said...

Thanks Sweet-Love,
Its hard to say about time, in the week I spend all day in front of the computer for work but only spend a fraction of the time on my blogs. At the weekends it is easier to break it down, I check for pay per post opportunities a few times through out the day but only spend about 1-2 hours per day in front of it.