http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=213166&highlight=pay+per+post this thread. I dont know if the offer still stands though
It seems to me that if you're going to spend $100 on having posts written, you'd be better off targeting the blogs you'd like to be on yourself. It obviously takes more time on the front end, i.e. finding the blogs and researching their stats, but I have to imagine you'd see better results from it both in the short and long term. I know part of the "beauty" of PayPerPost is that it is like the blogging version of adsense or other contextual advertising in that you put some money in, set it and forget it, and wait for the traffic to start piling in. (have yet to read that review... lol..) But with the research you are doing in the aftermath (not to mention the frustration from crappy results) it stands to reason you're better off spending the time on the front end and hand picking the blogger's that will write about your product. That gives you total control of things like how good their past content has been, what PR the blog is, or if you wanted to be a real control freak, how the content is presented, or even key things that need to be included.
I have not personally tried them so I may be wrong here, but anyway, if you want posts written about your site, then couldn't you just cut out the middle man and go directly to the blogs that you want your site on and ask them if they will do a review of your site or something and say that you will pay them a few dollars. If they will not do it then up the dollars a little untill you reach the amount that you would have most probably paid via using PayPerPost. If they still will not do it then try another blog. If that don't work, then just keep with PayPerPost, lol
That makes a whole helluva lot of sense John. BTW, it took me almost 6 months before the PPP'ers would even accept my blog for posts, so I'm kinda ticked at that.
I hope they are responsive. I don't think PPP is that well managed as it goes - I saw they had a blogger opportunity for $50 the other day! Obviously someone had mashed their head on the keyboard and made a typo, but I suppose they'll have to honor that price if people have accepted the offer in good faith.
anyway, those blogger got paid for like 5 dollar per post (the highest one is 20, but there is only 2 Ads pay higher than 10, all the other are only 5 dollar each
Unfortunately, I had similar results, and it was obvious that they just cut and pasted information from our home page to formulate their posts.. All no-traffic PR0 sites. I figured I'd give it a shot since the coupon was free, but I was really disappointed overall.
Actually My-Net-Tony, I was referring to the use of $100 on only 2-5 posts and expecting to get an accurate measure of the platform. When I researched the platform, I sponsored a couple opps with 10-20 posts and got some that were great, some just good and some bad. As a whole, it was better ROI than other avenues on a CPM and CPC level (not to mention hard-to-measure branding) -- and continuing to improve over time as those posts drive views/clicks months later. Had I requested only 2-5 posts it's possible I would have gotten a skewed view positive or negative. I would love to see comparison data from anyone who spends $100 on 15 posts via PPP, 1 post via a system that allows you to select a $100 blogger, 1 text link ad for one month via a system that allows you to select a $100/month site, $100 via a CPM system, and $100 via CPC such as AdWords. I think your ROI results will match what I found -- PPP, hands-down. As for PPP "encouraging" certain views, I think this post sums it up pretty well. PPP makes all of the opps they create open-tone (positive/neutral/negative) and strongly recommends other marketers do the same when creating their opps. If you know different, please point me to the source...
For anyone who did 10+ posts with the $100 promo, I'd love to see your results after a couple weeks of published posts -- plz PM me if willing to share. I can share some of mine in return...
Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know at Blogsvertise you can pick your own bloggers who will write the blog entries. If you don't feel like picking you can also specify to us what Page Rank and/or categories you want the blog entries on. For instance, when you are making an order, specify in the category section that you want, "only bloggers who focus on dieting with a PR of 2 or higher" and we will do our best to honor your request. If we can't meet the request we would contact you rather than just send the task out randomly. If you want to choose your own bloggers contact me after you register and I will send you the promotional link to be able to choose bloggers out of our system. All these different companies have different positive and negative qualities, but I am just putting the info about Blogsvertise out there (Note: I work for them!)
I'm not an employee of Blogsvertise but I agree with Cheryl (my old buddy from Bloggerforum) that they definitely offer a more targeted (effective) service that PPP does. They also allow publishers to write an honest appraisal of the subject.
I tried them last month for 90$ and paid 8$ per post cos they charged 26$ as service fees Overall the posts were good but were too small ie around 50 - 100 words each and were like 2 lines descriptions. Though iam happy too because those did help me in the serps Amit
With PPP you get what you pay for. The OP unfortunately set too high a price per post and no PR requirements and of course the faster bloggers rushed in to get the money. However, if you are paying $4-5 per post then don't expect to get featured on a top quality blog ala TechCruch.
I tried opening an account with them and it asked to confirm your email address but i never got the email from them. So i requested another email and still none. So I opened another account with a different email and still no confirmation email. I emailed them about the problem and still no answer...how do they expect to make money and gain new customers when they cant manage anything.
Where can you set the PR requirements (I could not find it for the life of me!). I guess I misunderstood how PPP works, because I though Id get to pick and choose which blogs I could approve. I set a high post payment to draw the better blogs (makes sense) but apparently that did not work. Ill take some of the blame for my results, but I do think PPP has some big work to do. I really dont like the fact they allow myspace, xanga, and other "community" blogs.
Someone needs to open a pay per post site BUT have bloggers bid on the amount they'll take - sort of like how lenders bid on prosper. So let's say I want a review of widget X. I post my listing and then there's a list below of bidders. It shows bidders name, bidders blog/site PR, bidders price, and bidders feedback rating. When my listing is done, I can then choose however many I want and pay $.50 or $1 commission per post + whatever the bidders price was.
You are correct that there is no way to set the PR requirements. Some advertisers specify this in the opportunity text but I guess it is just wishfull thinking since there is not way to control it after all. It was my mistake to imply that there was an option for setting the PR.
Do we know if PPP have any comment on this thread yet? Have they responded I mean. I'd be amazed if PPP didn't have a DP member on the pay roll keeping an eye on things.