PayPerPost: Writing About Products And Services

What is PayPerPost? It’s a portal where companies can advertise requests for writers, and bloggers can answer those requests. PayPerPost is actually a great opportunity for those of you that don’t mind writing about some company’s product or service. The tone of writing can be neutral, positive or negative, but is set by the requestor. Payment per post is varies, and might be anywhere from US$3 up to $35.

For their initial trial, PayPerPost were only open to American bloggers because they recorded tax ids, etc. They are still in beta, however international bloggers can apply now, too.

So what’s the problem? Well, to be able to respond to a request for writers, you need to “register” a blog. You can only register until you have had 10 paid posts approved there. So if you publish more than one blog, to handle different topics, you are out of luck until you’ve been approved for ten posts on the first blog. What’s more, you have to have 20 of your own posts published within the past 90 days on your registered weblog before your it will be approved.

This is a shame because they don’t make this information front and center when you “add” a blog. So if you do not have a single blog that can cover multiple topics, you may not be able to respond to some requests. That is, if you have any desire to maintain relevance. Since I signed up a while ago but did not attempt to accept a writing job until much later, I forgot about the 20-posts rule, but didn’t recall anything about having to have 10 payperpost posts on a weblog before being able to register another weblog.

Foolishness. It penalizes people like me who write a number of blogs but don’t focus on one. So if you want to sign up at PayPerPost, browse all of the current writing requests before you decide which of your blogs, if any, would encompass MOST of the topics you will want to write about. Your blog cannot be an “I ate breakfast at 10 am today, isn’t that cool” type of diary blog. I’m guessing that PayPerPost’s rule of one blog at a time means that their clients miss out on a lot of exposure opportunities.

Conclusion: Payperpost is a potentially good opportunity for a certain type of blogger, and while it won’t make you rich, it could earn you a bit extra. But if writing about other people’s products isn’t your thing, maybe talking about them is. Voice over work can be fairly lucrative, and you can do it from home and promote yourself at Voice123.com or Voices.com.

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