Comments on: PayPerPost Is Now Officially Absurd

By: Review #2: This is Not a Medium | THIS IS WEIRD VIBRATIONS // the politics of sound

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:44:21 +0000

[...] And there certainly seem to be good reasons for doing so. PayPerPost, a deliberately opaque provider of sponsored online advertising, has become a multi-billion dollar operation within three years, and has inspired many clones. The company has also, predictably, recently developed a “Sponsored Tweets” concept. It is an ingenious system that matches posters with advertisers, allowing the former to shill for the latter in mutually profitable ways. PayPerPost’s transparency requirements (naturally, in the absence of any legal impetus otherwise) have been described as laughably weak. [...]

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BEWARE of Posting Affiliate Links on Your Blog-Part 2 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:00:41 +0000

[...] who are behind projects like disclosurepolicy.org and payperpost.com (unless I am wrong); btw, here is one interesting article on PPP that seems to be related to the topic at hand – that is, "full disclosure of [...]

By: Awesome Links

Awesome Links — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:18:51 +0000

I just signed up for this service and must say, it’s not all that bad. It’s kind of like name-dropping in my blog posts. My posts are still saying exactly what I intended them to, I just may throw in a mention of “Hey. THIS SITE wanted me to let you know they sell back scratchers.” Doesn’t seem much different than an athlete wearing a hat with a sponsor’s logo on it during an interview.

With that being said, fake product reviews are horrible.

By: Bob Nunnery

Bob Nunnery — Mon, 25 May 2009 00:36:27 +0000

I’m amazed at the ferocity of some of the opinions against PPP (service of any kind). I actually do write a PayPerPost every once in a while, and honestly, it takes me “forever” to actually find something I’m willing to write about.
I certainly don’t expect everyone who blogs to be so discerning they’d qualify as quality inspectors for nuclear weapons triggers, but give the human race “some” credit.
Just because you happen to get a kickback by inserting some kind of text link, and lord knows I do enough of those for free, that goes along with something you’d write about anyway, you’re “absurd”?
There are far, far too many cynics, who should be listening to their own advice – believe half of what you hear and less of what you read.
Back off the little blogger, give him some space to discover what works for him / her, if it’s blogola, and you don’t want that, then leave *click on the ad before going though, the guys kid might need braces*, and find a new source of unbiased information. By the way, good luck with that it might be found on top of the Himalayas somewhere, spouted by a monk, but you won’t find it on the internet.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:59:23 +0000

Since when does the fact that a person chooses to write on a blog make them responsible for maintaining the integrity of the blogosphere or having journalistic integrity?

I could not care less about that and if I want to get paid to write stuff on a Website I own I’ll do it. If people don’t like it, then they don’t have to read it.

Sorry, but a blog is just another kind of CMS to build a Website, not a sacred magical public trust. I run a blog to update people on what I’m doing, not to fit into some bizarre over-hyped blogosphere “meme”.

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Disclosure: Site-Wide or per Post? « JapanSoc Community Blog — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:45:34 +0000

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By: revenue

revenue — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:45:30 +0000

Yes PayPerPost bloggers must disclose to their readers that they receive compensation from PayPerPost advertisers.

That’s mean all Of their publisher must use Disclosure Policy, if not they will rejected your post.

By: Patrizia Broghammer

Patrizia Broghammer — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:55:04 +0000

I confess: I take money for sponsoring products or whatever.
And I go as far as to say I do not feel ashamed or guilty or anything else.
My question is: Is there still somebody so naive as to think that there are honest and genuine reviews?
The only discrimination could eventually be the fact of saying: I didn’t like it, I didn’t use it, I will never do.
But that also doesn’t mean that somebody could like and use it.
A dummy proof software is not good for a technology guru, like a sophisticated one for as good as it can be is certainly NOT what a normal Internet user would choose.
What is a honest review?
I try to explain what the product is and also to whom it could be a good bargain.
Every product that comes on the market is targeted for a certain part of consumers.
I talk to them and tell the others, if you do not belong to this group, don’t bother.
I do not believe in Homeopathy, but there are millions who do and it actually heals them.
Not in the ordinary and rational way, but it does.
And I welcome blogs like PayPerPost and bloggers who do this job because very often they offer a different point of view and I admit it, some people are very good in writing and so much more genuine than the usual commercial way, that I see it a good breath of fresh air in a stagnant business.

By: Serafettin Arslan

Serafettin Arslan — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:03:54 +0000

good job

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By: Bryan Clark

Bryan Clark — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:02:30 +0000

PPP is all but obsolete now with the Google penalties isn’t it?

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How To Be People Ready | How To Split An Atom — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:14:00 +0000

[...] that for bloggers who have come out against other sponsored posting schemes (like Mike Arrington of TechCrunch has), it does raise a few [...]

By: PayPerPost: A Blogger's Poison « WriteTilt

PayPerPost: A Blogger's Poison « WriteTilt — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:31:06 +0000

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By: Kevin O'Dea

Kevin O'Dea — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:23:06 +0000

I was needed to build traffic for my website. I ended up getting posts on blogs with a zero PageRank. This did nothing for me in terms of link building

By: zaid360.com » PayPerPost.com Saga – Blogosphere’s Crack Party

zaid360.com » PayPerPost.com Saga – Blogosphere’s Crack Party — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:30:45 +0000

[...] Seed of PayPerPost Hatred When PayPerPost launched, it did not require bloggers to have a disclosure. The purpose of a disclosure is to caution the audience of any unintended bias that might slip through. PayPerPost not requiring a disclosure ignited the fire and earned them condemnations from blogosphere celebs including Mike Arrington and Scoble. [...]

By: My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings » Blog Archive » Disclosure

My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings » Blog Archive » Disclosure — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:12:00 +0000

[...] Yes, this is paid blogging hard at work. I thought the disclosure idea was great. I also stated in an earlier post that the naysayers should be quiet now, but they probably would not. Let’s just say I was right. Tech Crunch again has gotten on their high horse, and we are still in the wrong. They asked that we disclose, and we are. I have an entire post of my disclosure policy. I also have a link under Links with my disclosure policy. What more do you want? [...]

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:26:07 +0000

Some of them aren’t too bad. Payperpost is requiring disclosure now, which is a good thing. I have been using them for a short time, and if you actually post to your blog often enough, the two posts a day for payperpost (maximum) don’t fill it up with so much muck. Then again most blogs (including myself) are full of muck anyway and are pretty much there for entertainment value only.

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Jaisen's Blog — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:06:05 +0000

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By: iMicro.mobi » PayPerPost Does Something Right

iMicro.mobi » PayPerPost Does Something Right — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:18:30 +0000

[...] This isn’t a perfect fix for PayPerPost – advertisers can still require a positive post about their products, and the disclosure does not have to be within the post itself. The blogger can choose to “prominently” display an accurate disclosure policy on the site in lieu of disclosure within the post itself, although the disclosure policy being recommended by PayPerPost states that paid posts is the same as any advertising on a site. Still, it is a big move in the right direction. [...]

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Techcrunch » Blog Archive » PayPerPost Does Something Right — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:32:40 +0000

By: romantika.name - » PayPerPost Requires Disclosure

romantika.name - » PayPerPost Requires Disclosure — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:54:27 +0000

[...] In October when PayPerPost created DisclosurePolicy, Mike stated that he hopes not many bloggers will go along with PayPerPost. I understand his concerns about blogsphere and public trust, but if bloggers don’t just jump to take every opportunity they see, we can still withhold the integrity of blogsphere. [...]

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Milking the cow › this is smackfoo — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:05:56 +0000

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By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:13:37 +0000

I signed up for Pay Per Post, but by the time my blog site was approved, I just lost interest. It took over a week and by that time I decided to do something different.

Some of the posts that you had to create were really outrageous and would totally trash up your blog site (if you are running a professional one). So, if given the chance to go back, I probably wouldn’t unless someone could really convince me that it pays and pays well.