After getting banned from Digg, I’ve now been banned from Pay Per Post, although it’s really my own fault. The problem with Pay Per Post is that you can’t add and remove blogs to your account as you please. Once you’ve added one blog, you have to make 10 posts before you can add another. It’s a silly rule really.

I signed up one of my blogs to Pay Per Post eons ago, but after an uproar from my readers about writing paid reviews, I decided to stop writing them on that particular blog. So what else could I do? I still wanted to use Pay Per Post, but couldn’t find a way to add another blog. So I set up another two accounts with different email addresses.

Both of the new accounts were approved and I wrote a post on each of the blogs, which also got approved. Technically, I could have got away with it. It then dawned on me that I would be paid for both accounts to the same Paypal address. So I contacted Pay Per Post and told them I was in a bit of a pickle, effectively coming clean. I said that I really didn’t know what else to do because they have no option to remove a blog from an account.

In the end, the lady who deals with “bad bloggers”, as she put it, mailed me back and said that she would ban two of my accounts but leave one open. Frustratingly, one of the accounts she banned was the one I use for referring other people, so I lost about 45 pending referrals in the process. I did ask to carry on using that account and just remove the blog, but for some reason that’s not possible.

So there you have it. You can open multiple accounts on Pay Per Post, but when it comes to payment, they’re likely to spot that you’re up to no good unless you have multiple Paypal accounts.

They should definitely look into getting rid of the 10-post rule and allowing users to add and remove their blogs.

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I ‘d convinced myself that there was thousands of dollars to be made by setting up multiple blogs and turning them into paid-posting machines right away. I think I was mistaken in that assumption.

Even with the $20 offered new members of Pay Per Post for their first sponsored post, the way to really earn money with paid posting is to build up a blog that has Page Rank. While you could write hundreds of $5 reviews every month, wouldn’t it be better to write five $100 reviews? Just look at the offers available on Sponsored Reviews. The difference between the top and the bottom offers is hundreds of dollars.

I think I had my priorities confused with some of the blogs I was setting up. I’ve established a reasonable sized blog network, but more than half of those blogs are yet to receive any Page Rank, and it’s clear that getting Page Rank needs to be a focus to make serious money from paid reviews and various other services.

It’s frustrating that Google only updates its toolbar every three months or so, and what with Google possibly under attack right now, it’s anybody’s guess when the next update will be. What this means, however, is that I should be spending time building quality back links for my infant blogs.

Making money blogging is a slow process that requires time and patience. If I’ve learned anything since I started this, it’s that the real money only comes after perseverance. Sure, the quick money I’ve made writing paid reviews is a bonus, but it’s nothing to write home about.

Anybody can make a couple of grand on the Internet, but the people who don’t give up after six months are the people who make a couple of grand every month, or even every week.

I should be one of those people.

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Aside from the three most well known paid-posting services (Pay Per Post, Loud Launch, Review Me) there are heaps of other companies out there waiting to pay you money to write sponsored reviews – and what’s more, you don’t need any traffic to start using them to make money blogging. If you want to maximize your opportunities, start a number of small, side-project blogs about any topic, and update them every few days for at least three months – these can turn into gold mines in no time.

Most paid-posting services require your blog to be at least three months old, and while some, like Review Me, have certain requirements with regards to traffic and rank, the smaller services aren’t so strict and you can start making money right away.

If you haven’t yet, then check out Sponsored Reviews. Getting a blog accepted is easy, as all you need is at least 10 posts of 200 words or more. Once accepted, you can browse through pages of opportunities and bid on them. Not all your bids will be accepted, but there are so many opportunities that you will find something. Bid on everything you come across that requires only 50 or 100 words. Many reviews have no blog requirements. I have blogs with no traffic or rank, and I can still get reviews accepted and make money.

Providing you’re hosting your own blog, you can sign up with Blogsvertise. What’s more, your blog only needs to be 30 days old. You write reviews of at least 75 words containing three links, and they pay you generally between $5 and $10 for each post. There are very few requirements to be met, and you can submit all your blogs. Once the tasks start rolling in, so does the money!

I’ve written about Bloggerwave before. They are still receiving mixed reviews in the blogosphere and I’m not overly keen on them yet. At the moment, I have a number of blogs with Bloggerwave, but there are still just two opportunities available, and I’m only eligible for one. You can accept the same opportunity on multiple blogs, and the payout is a flat $10. I did get paid for one previous opportunity after emailing Bloggerwave and I am waiting on another payment.

Don’t forget about Blogging Ads too. Though they take up to six weeks to approve a blog, once they do there are heaps of opportunities to take. The only thing is that the ones I’ve seen only pay $5 each. Blogs must be three-months old and cached by Google.

A new paid-posting service I came across is Smorty. Blogs should be cached in Google and Yahoo, three-months old and have at least two posts per week. You can add as many blogs as you like, and each post earns you at least $6. It’s a good introduction to making money blogging and writing sponsored reviews.

There are other services out there for paid review, but these are the ones I’ve been using on low-traffic blogs. If you want to make money online, this is as good a place to start as any.

Tags: Paid posting by Angel
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