My sister introduced me to this pay per post system wherein a blogger is paid for every post she makes pertaining to a product. She told me of a friend who made about $800.00 out of it.
But that friend now feels sorry she did pay per post. Her wordpress blog lost its Google Page Rank of 4. Yes 4 to nothing. My sister said Google doesn't like pay per post. Now, because her blog is not ranking anymore, she could not get any more project from pay per post. So I said, why would I do it?
From my understanding, pay per post is getting paid for posting or blogging a product or service. It is covert advertising. You are writing about a product and promoting it. But your blog has to meet certain criteria in order to qualify as a pay-per-post blog.
I don't know the whole picture about pay per post yet. Need more research and will blog it later.
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I bought 5 links on Pay Per Post on PR 1 and 2 blogs to get links to my http://www.greenville-massage.com site. In 4 days, my site disappeared from the Google search engine.
Matthew Cutts, who works for Google, has a very active blog with a PR 7. Wow, that's a very high ranking for a blog. He said that Google was going after companies that one can buy blog entries. Notice that PPP makes you put a "disclaimer" on your site to be compliant with goodness knows who, but that disclaimer tips Google off that this is a advertising site I think.
I begged and pleaded that the people who posted a review of my massage site take down the posts. Even though they were PR 0 blogs, they were so proud of their posts that they wouldn't take them down. I confronted PPP directly. I even went wild talking on the Net about how using PPP killed my rankings. They owner of the company called me and I calmed down because he was humble about it. He's a very kind and dedicated person living in Florida.
Anyway, I like the concept. It's brilliant, but it appears that one must be very much on top of things to pull off using their service without being Google slapped.
I got suspicious of all this when I saw a dating review site pull up number 1 on Google and I had never even heard of them. I started clicking on some of their backlinks and quickly discovered they were paying tons of cash to bloggers or posties as they say to write blog entries. It was a huge boost to this unknown company, but now I can't even find them in a Google search. They were number 1 on Google for "dating sites" in 2007, but now, they're a ghost.
My point is that I'd go slow. 2 of the 5 posties still have their links to my massage website I did for a friend, but they won't take them down even if I pay them lots of money. Beginners are often prideful. They only got paid $5 per post, but I'd pay them $100 to take them down. They won't...ouch!
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