PayPerPost (I’ll refer to this site as “PPP” from here onwards) is a site/company that offers bloggers opportunities to review their advertisers’ products and services; and in return, bloggers get paid. It is a nice additional channel to monetize your blog.
New PPP members get excited by the fact that they are already a member. However, new members don’t know that there’s one important step to accomplish before they can take advantage of the open opportunities: BLOG SUBMISSION. Don’t expect to earn profit right away, because your blog can still be rejected. As a matter of fact, prepare to get frustrated because PPP has 5 secrets you wished you knew beforehand:
1. Number of posts and Quality - Your blog should have at least 20 posts prior to submission. This is a piece of cake. 20 posts is nothing. But, if you are a beginner, it is an easy mistake to make because you are tempted to post anything outside your niche. I can post 5 irrelevant topics in one day with my eyes closed, but is it worth it? To me, quality is more important than quantity. So my tip is: write quality post from the get-go and make it a habit. Always check your post for technical errors (ie. grammar and punctuations) and substance (contents). Heads-up: PPP reviews your post submissions once your blog becomes legible.
Also, if you are planning to join other review companies, keep in mind that some of them might require you to have at least 10 posts a month. My posting frequency is 2 posts (3 max) per week. That way, I won’t run out of ideas and the quality remains consistent. So make sure you post in a regular interval so your site gets approved.
2. Age limit – PPP (and others) will not approve your blog if it is relatively new — it should be at least 90 days old. PPP verifies your blog’s age by getting the date of your first post, and subtracting it from your application date. In some instances, other companies check if you have archives link, so if you haven’t done that yet, set it up now.
3. Posts per Page – PPP will not approve your blog if your page shows only 2 posts at a time. For some reasons, you have to have at least 5 posts in a page. If you are serious about becoming a reviewer, it’s time to pad up the pages with more posts.
4. Post Layout – PPP and other companies require you to have your posts in FULL READ. Meaning, your post – no matter how short or long it is – should be completely displayed in the page. If you fancy the “MORE…” feature, then I suggest drop it now then re-submit your blog. (If you are into Search Engine Optimization or more commonly known as SEO, I’ve read that this is a growing concern, because FULL READ duplicates your site contents. However, I feel that it is a separate topic that needs another post so I won’t discuss it here.)
5. Traffic – This is the toughest especially for new sites. Fortunately, PPP, in my experience, does not check traffic ranking. However, bloggers with new sites who are anxious to become reviewers, are in a rude awakening when they learn that some companies reject blog submission due to low traffic ranking. Some companies won’t even bother contact you if your blog is disapproved.
To check your site’s traffic, go to alexa.com, and enter your site. If you feel you need more hits, here’s one effective tip to increase your site’s popularity: write quality posts/articles and submit them to reddit.com or digg.com and make sure you enter short, catchy title. For starters, reddit and digg are the two most popular social news sites where users can submit links, whether their own or not. If REDDITors and DIGGers like your submission, they will vote for it and share it with others. The more votes you get, the more chances your article makes the frontpage. Hence, the exposure and tons of hits.
If you think you’ve passed these requirements, then you should have no problem getting your blog accepted. Try submitting your blog again and wait if it gets approved or not. If PPP rejects your blog, take note of the reasons and feel free to post here.
If you want to help aspiring reviewers, please send them this link so they will know what to do before they submit their blogs to PPP and/or other companies and save them the frustrations.
Good luck!
** Disclaimer: This is based on my personal experience and some research, and may or may not be applicable to you. So use this at your own risk. I will not be liable for the use of information in this post. **
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I am still not approved by them yet cause my blog was not 3 months old and i did not have an archive. That’s what they said. Anyway i am almost coming to 3 months old and i already have an archive. So i will request again later.
Good article on PPP. *wink*
Good post. Very interesting and timely too since a good friend and I are both looking at doing something like this.
Thanks Saedel very informative. It has in fact made me decide to wait before I get involved with PayPerPost because I will be visiting my son in mid November and will not have access to a computer for about 5 days and that might be a problem do you think.
The rule of “five or more posts per page” is easy to explain. Advertisers want to be on the front page of your blog for a reasonable amount of time. If a blogger posts once a day or more, the posts are pushed off the front page very quickly.
I do ten posts on my front page, simply because when visiting a new blog, I rarely visit “older posts” – if nothing on the front page trips my trigger, then I don’t bother.
To Vic Grace – gaps of more than 30 days are not acceptable for PPP. Your last post before a paid post must be less than 7 days before. So five days without a computer is no problem. I’d recommend a post letting readers know you’ll be gone and how long before you go, for non-PPP reasons. Best of luck.
I just got my first PPP post
approved by them. It took 20
days from the time I posted it
on my site (Oct. 3rd)… that
was longer than I thought it
would take, but worth the wait.
That first ‘I joined PPP’ post
pays $20. I’m glad I joined!
squaretan, good to see you here. I’m also still waiting for my site’s 90th day.
rinnah, Thanks! Glad you liked it. *waves*
Jeni and Vic, I actually wrote this for Vic after reading her post about Making Money Online.
Tina, Thanks for your input! I like the idea of 10 posts per page, and I might experiment on that.
Jaya, wow! Congratulations! I just visited my PPP account and realized I can do the same thing! Thanks!
My blog will be 3 months old in the next 9 days. After that I will submit it.
Are they really so lazy that they only check what the archive widget shows? It would be easy enough to fake by buying a used domain and backdating posts.
They also seem rather outdated in their PR requirements, particularly given how Google is cracking down on PR passing reviews and links. They’re also outdated on the having full posts on the front page given the rising popularity of magazine style templates.