I don’t use payperpost because they require a disclaimer….which will get you google slapped….i use ppp services that don’t require a disclaimer.

what it boils down i freedom of speech…and our right as bloggers to write about what ever it is we want. If you want to write about a ppp topic or your affiliate program.

i think the blogger that feel passionately about this should boycott adsense and use competitors like yahoo publisher for the next 4 month. why should you support google, when google’s ready to drop you just like that?

The almost certain demise of PayPerPost got me thinking again about Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). Their advertisers were promised an SEO benefit, google saw through their buy-search-engine-position-by-proxy scam and zapped their ass. Damn right too…

I’d think a lot less of anyone I knew if they were using this rubbish.

I’ve been assuming that the pagerank drop is more a warning shot than anything else, and that anyone who doesn’t heed it and stop using PayPerPost and TLA and other such rubbish will be dropped from the indexes in a couple of months. At any rate, I hope this is what they’ll do.

I have little pity for people making money out of distorting the Internet. PPP is a pagerank-selling business and always has been. These ridiculous little blogs which run it surely don’t generally actually have many readers?

If you really want to earn some cash, here is what you do. Take the PPP money for the posts, after 30 days, make the links nofollow or better yet, go in and change links to fit affiliate offers that make you extra cash. Someone pays you post about business cards? Find a business card affiliate program and stick the link in it.

If you got yourself a mini empire of 20 blogs and put up three paid posts per days no single blog is gonna have more than 3 or 4 paid posts(without nofollow) at any one time. Sure, this is gonna cost you a couple hundred to set up, but guess what, businesses do have expenses. Did you really think you could make your living off of a free blogspot account?

All these people who cry because they are losing opps to earn cash, listen and listen good. You need to treat it like a business. Go get yourself decent hosting, buy yourself a dozen domains and work them like a business. Don’t play around with these half measures or try to lilly white it them up.

I think everyone starts blogging as a hobby until they find out that they can earn from it. That’s when the dependence to paid posts starts.

IMO, this site is getting publicity, albeit bad publicity. But there’s no such thing as bad publicity, is there?

The ridiculous excuses only serve to increase my annoyance at the whole service; the pathetic whining about “mommy bloggers” who can’t make ends meet or who’re desperate for [xyz] and must must must whore themselves out or they’ll all DIE or STARVE. This shit doesn’t make me think “aw, well ok, you go and PPP all you like then”, it makes me think “get off your fucking lazy arses, sell your many domains, turn off your Internet connection and learn how to budget”. Families were brought up, kids sent to school, meals served and Christmasses rescued way before the Internet was ever invented, and if my disabled mother can bring up a 6-child, multiple pet family on her own without this blatant ‘blogstitution’ then any fucker can, and I don’t want to hear any damned excuses otherwise.

However, and this is a big however.. techcrunch’s sidebar is covered in “sponsers” and adverts, and I don’t see ANY difference between that and the PPP crap. This high horse you’ve built for yourself is made of straw, so just be careful it doesn’t come tumbling down.

As for crap content in the blogosphere, Google should direct as much effort if not more in getting rid of spam blogs and blogs that aggregate other people’s content in the guise of providing a resource for the latest content.

And yet these are still around because they display Adsense. At least PPP blogs are written by people, not splogged.

I personally have been using PPP to pay my rent, just makes me laugh when people go “now they have to get real jobs like the rest of us” or what ever one of the little people said on here.

Just because someone makes money off of their blog via posts doesnt mean they dont have a job, I have a (not great but well paid) IT job for a local college, I just used PPP to pay my rent (as I said) and this time of the year to buy presents.

If people think thats wrong then, hell stop reading the blogs which do this, if you think we have “sold out” then fine, think what you will. But hell, putting a stupid amount of banners etc on your site kinda makes you a sell out aswell…. no wait… just the “TechCrunch Sponsors”, nothing like writing about something is it? no..because you just slap in the code and away you go…

Meh, just a waste of time posting here, lets face it, just another comment for a evil git who thinks its fun to pick at other peoples blogs etc, well, what ever gets you off mate

I’m glad you can be choosy about the opps you take. And you should feel blessed. I can guarantee you that the people who HAVE to rely on sponsored posts aren’t throwing the stones back at you. In fact more often than not they probably would choose to be able to blog about nothing more than the color of the fall leaves. To be able to have the kind of financial freedom it takes to have that.

From experience, I can guarantee you that the bloggers *I* know that write sponsored posts, most of them really have no choice. And believe me there are more real life situations that leave them no choice than there are real life situations that give them all of their lives handed to them on a silver platter. And even more somewhere right in the middle. Whose job is it to judge?

If I see a good PPP opp, I’ll take it. But I’m not counting on it to become a real source of income.

Good post.

You’re right. Some abused the network. But Google didn’t punish the abusers; they punished everyone, even the ones who didn’t. Out of over 1000 posts on my blog, 40 were paid. Those 40 were posted between October, 2006 and June, 2007. Every post was disclosed at the post level, and every post I wrote had to fit specific criteria before I would write about them, including the requirement that I had tried the product/service/site myself and could write honestly without any requirements for a particular tone.

Most of what I made I gave away to friends in need, charities, or my freshman college kid.

Google didn’t drop me to zero, but they did drop me, and I’m angry about the way they treated people who approached paid blogging in a similar fashion to me and rely on that income in some way. They did this while doing nothing to fix the AdSense sploggers and scrapers out there who rely on MY content to drive traffic into THEIR site which is nothing more than a wastebasket for Adsense traffic to land in.

For Michael Arrington to sit here and pound those folks more is just beyond comprehension. At best, it’s mean-spirited and ugly. At worst, it’s self-serving, given his own income stream from AdSense.

I hope he’s nicer to stray dogs and orphans.

a little extra cash from paid blogging is nice…but if your source of livelihood involves posting a series of paid posts even about stuffs that don’t interest you, just for the money and without regard to the readers…then yes, that is pathetic…

guys, stop it with your misplaced sympathies…a lot of PPP bloggers abused the network…