Well, a big thumbs down for http://www.payperpost.com. I ran a $100 campaign to promote my new directory. I paid $20 per post and only 1 of the 5 was worth it. The other 3 or 4 have had about 200 views (total) over the last few days. With the $100 spent, Ive had about 50 uniques to my sites. Most of the sites were livejournal, blogger, and even xanga. Most of the sites do not have any pagerank. I really disappointed and think I should be able to CHOOSE WHICH SITES MY POST GOES ON (maybe you can already do this, but I didnt find it). For example, I say 20 posts for $10 a post. Users respond accepting the post. I choose 20 users out of all that "applied". That way I can weed out these myspace and xanga blogs and get on blogs that will actually make a difference to my site. /rant
I'm about 50% impressed. I tried to spend the $100 on two reviews for some software on my site. On one hand I had a really great post written on a nice site. The 2nd posting was on a completly irelevent site, and they even mentioned the only reason they were trying my software / site is because they were being paid. Seems a bit off to allow the poster to write how much they got paid in the blog entry.
Same here. Most are personal blogs with no traffic or anything. A few even mentioned that they are only posting about my site because they are being paid. Ugh.
Just as you wouldn't run an AdWords campaign with only enough budget for 2-5 click-throughs, you guys might want to consider sponsoring more than 2-5 posts. Although I think you'll see long-term benefit from the posts you bought, immediate impact is easier to gauge with a more diverse buy across PPP. drig: I believe Ted has mentioned segmentation is coming... chrisn: If open-ended disclosure of payment concerns you, I believe the platform allows you to request a specific disclosure that meets your company guidelines such as "This post was sponsored by X, but the opinions are all mine!"
Same experience here Drig, I wasn't satisfied with them either. (My Pay Per Post review ) In short, I specifically noted that the sites MUST be related to my site's content...which happened to be health, however, I don't think that was taken into account..I received around 30 clicks apparently...although my traffic logs don't show that at all..so my guess is one person clicking through 10 times was counted as 10 clicks...I wish they showed you uniques instead. Anyhow, that's not the point. I really wish they could let you choose the publishers and even a system where someone interested agrees to your "terms" and says "I'm interested", then you look at their site and see if it meets your criteria and approve the person...then they post their work and you pay them would work better IMO.
In my opinion, it seems like it'd be worth it just to think up your own awesome post, rather than waste $100 on it. After all, aren't we spending money to make money? I'd rather have $100 on the spot, then MAYBE earn $10 down the road on AdSense or other service.
However, it is not the advertisers fault - it is PPP's fault for not providing a more comprehensive system for allowing advertisers to pick and choose the blogs that write posts. Or perhaps even a bidding process. Or a previous advertiser ranking of blogs. Or anything other than the lame process they have now. I have advertised and done paid postings at PPP. Considering the amount of money they had invested - it is really sad to see the lack of evolution in the services provided.
I agree, it's not a bad concept and PPP does have the userbase.(bloggers) so there's still lots of potential...the only downside is you can't choose the publishers, that's it. I think any advertiser is more capable of determining which blog qualifies than one person checking 500 blogs for 50 different projects..ya know what I mean?
I have also used PPP to my chagrin, and have stopped doing so until the publisher has the option of choosing the specific blog.
Poor old PPP is getting a hammering here - and quite rightly so. I'm at the other end of the spectrum - a blogger who occasionally uses PPP to earn a few dollars. From my point of view I don't like the way they try and lead the blogger into writing the review in a positive tone. I also don't like the way they publish a long list of blog requirements (eg. 'only take this review if your middle name begins with the letter Z, you have had a PR of 4 for at least 55 days and your blog is to do with sewing machines'). If you want more selectivity as an advertiser I recommend ReviewMe or Blogsvertise. ReviewMe is at the more expensive end of the market (at least $20 per review) but you can choose exactly which blog you want. ReviewMe only accept blogs with a reasonable PageRank and traffic.
Bingo - that is pretty much deterred me from doing many more posts with PPP. I log in and seemingly half of the opps require a video to be made - come on! I don't mind the PR requirements - that makes sense - but the other requirements are a bit too much - 4 links blended perfectly into a 500 word post for $5.00. Yeah....
I love danrua reply. Pay for more fake posts and you will be happier. And its interesting that PPP "encourages" bloggers to write the review in a positive light, thats a little suspect. PPP still seems really shady, I would steer clear of them.
I hope you guys are giving this feedback to payperpost, i'm sure they will come along and allow you to chose which blogs to post on. If not i'm sure some other company will do it for them, heck maybe I will. But anyways, here's a novel idea: Find a blog related to your industry thats high PR and is popular and.... contact them! You don't need a middleman to find you blogs to post on unless you're looking to do some serious volume.
I filled out a little form on the PPP website and submitted my comments along to them. Will be sending them the Url to this thread as well.
post quality is low...blog quality is low..most blogger are work from home mom..and at the end of the post it has "this is a sponsored post" which told SE that you bought it anyway, all you guy got the $100 coupon, right?
I got a $100 coupon, got the same results, and have the same gripes. I paid $10 for 7 posts. Most of the posts were very low quality. Two writers even had the nerve to copy and paste information from MY SITE and use it as their post! Only two of the seven sites had any PR. PayPerPost mainly seems to be kiddies getting paid to write low quality crap on their PR 0 Blogspots. I was thinking about trying out PPP before I got my coupon with my own money but now I'm glad I didn't. I got the $100 coupon because I registered an advertiser account a month or so ago but never bothered to spend any money. Sort of like how Bidvertisor will give inactive users $20 in free clicks.