More PayPerPost Blogs to Avoid

35 Comments so far

1. Justin on October 16, 2006 4:12 pm

   Thanks for the link; the more exposure and inbound links my blog gets, the better.

2. Tor on October 16, 2006 4:28 pm

   What Justin said.

3. Denise on October 16, 2006 5:38 pm

   Kewl, thanks for the link. I appreciate it very much. Heh.

4. Dan on October 16, 2006 5:40 pm

   Wow! I am actaully getting traffic from your site - Thanks!

5. Jersey Girl/Deb on October 16, 2006 6:05 pm

   Hey, thx for the link! Survivivng NJ that’s me. I never claimed to be some journalist who’s trying to make a name for myself, so thanks for the credit. I’m just a girl surviving daily life and talking about stuff. Simple as that! I didn’t know when I started blogging, I didn’t realize I had to do it for you. I was doing it for me.

   Should I have checked in with your before I made my last post this morning about my personal self-destructiveness? Is this not allowed? Too Personal?? I’ll check in with you before I post next time so I know the rules…again, thx for the link…hoping you have a great PR so I benefit!
   ps-while we’re at it, More than Pocket Change is mine too. :)Cheers

6. Brandy of The Building Brows on October 16, 2006 6:57 pm

   My blog The Building Brows chronicles our house construction and life as my family of eight lives in a two bedroom trailer while doing it. Write about home security? You bet. Especially while we can work it into our our house as we’re building. Would I have thought about it as much if not for PayPerPost? Perhaps not, and I thank PPP for helping us realize we need to. (No, you won’t find an Audi post on my site, but you will find our Blog Foliage Tour 2006.)

   My conscience before God and my readers is clean and if there’s an ad that would compromise that, I won’t take it. In fact, I’ve written against some ad subjects (and reported objectionable others) when I could’ve written about and been paid for it–all because I was thinking of my readers’ best interest.

   To write off blogs because they are PPP blogs is a shame. At least half the content on PPP blogs cannot be paid, and there are some really great blogs people would miss out on if they boycott them based solely on their affiliation with PayPerPost.

   And remember, not every post link is a paid ad. Sometimes I (and others) just like to point people to helpful stuff. Isn’t that what blogging is about?

   One last thing. My readership has gone up, not down, and my readers know I’m a Postie. Nuf said.

7. Jersey Girl/Deb on October 16, 2006 7:05 pm

   Darn, you’re a PR4 like me, and I have a better Alexa ranking, go figure, a lowly PPP blogger like myself…I thought you might help me, but maybe my link will help you! *smile*

8. Ron on October 16, 2006 7:38 pm

   Discovering one of my sites on here surprise me! What can I say? I have mixed emotions. It’s like watching my ex go over the cliff in my brand new car. Nahhhh, I’m kidding. I have to let this secret out, Man. Dear Reader, the write of this blogger is really a secret PayPerPoster. What better way to generate traffic for all of us than to start one of those ignorant controversal blogs. Thanks again! Your idea is working fantastic!

9. VC Dan on October 16, 2006 8:41 pm

   Hey — what about me? I want in on this linklove. Although I asked PPP to send a couple recent post payments to charities like Red Cross and 3DayMom, PayPerPost and my PayPal account are good buddies . Heck, you gotta try something before investing millions to change the world, right!?!

   Front line Posties don’t get to hog all the fun, viva la revolucion!

10. Suni/bulletproofsoul on October 16, 2006 10:15 pm

    HEY add me!! I want a higher page ranking, too! Gives me more opportunities to make some mula while blogging about things I have an interest in I appreciate you doing this. Thanks for the help.

11. Aimee on October 17, 2006 12:03 am

    FYI, I don’t do paid posts on the blog you linked to, so you might want to take me off your list. I haven’t for awhile… maybe if you actually read my blog, you would see a post about not doing paid posts on my personal blog anymore. But thanks anyway for the extra traffic!

12. Scott on October 17, 2006 1:23 am

    I came across this link via my Technorati records. I guess what they say about there being no such thing as bad publicity is true. About the only item that I can add to the other great comments is that there are bad PPP blogs just like there are bad non-PPP blogs. Sponsored or not, its what and how you say it that matters. For what it’s worth, I do disclose my PPP posts.

13. T on October 17, 2006 9:30 am

    ok, you got me. i participate in getting money for typing.

    pwned.

    or not, cause I didn’t link to YOU!

14. Erich D. on October 17, 2006 7:58 pm

    *cry*

    nobody loves me. or links to me.

    *cry*

15. The MediaBlog on October 17, 2006 9:09 pm

    There’s no such thing as bad publicity. Thanks for the link!

16. Shan on October 17, 2006 10:32 pm

    You can add me to the list. I don’t see what’s unethical about it, I’ve been listening to the podcast and reading TechCrunch and still don’t understand. If someone would kindly make it clear what the problem is, I’d stop. A few extraneous posts to generate some money (to be used for charity in my case) is hardly a crime, as long as your words are sincere.

17. Deirdre on October 18, 2006 1:00 pm

    Hey! Thanks for all the extra traffic to my blog! All my ginormous PPP profits go to charity so the more traffic the better!!!

18. cldnails on October 18, 2006 4:29 pm

    Lol, I don’t even use that blog for my PPP opportunities. Lol, this guy is clearly suffering ‘no traffic’ envy, so he hast to post links to other blogs in hopes of bringing traffic in.

    Controversey is the best tool for increasing traffic and Adsense impressions, what a freakin double standard.

19. Nails Blog V2.0 » Losing Readers on October 18, 2006 4:32 pm

    […] I’m sure the 10’s of thousands of readers I’m losing to ignorance will eventually ruin me. Personally, this is the first hate link I’ve ever received…freakin sweet, more backlinks. Filed under: Blog Crap, Making Money by cldnails @ 8:32 pm […]

20. Laura on October 18, 2006 6:42 pm

    *laughs*

    What grade are we in again?

21. Beth on October 19, 2006 12:58 am

    Ditto on helping me out with my traffic! You’re a real trooper. Are you upset that you aren’t making enough money from those awful Adsense ads at the top of your site? Or, are you jealous of our creativity and ability to write about products and services which interest us-and actually get paid? My readers are aware I write paid posts and I have yet to lose a single person. In fact, my traffic and readership has INCREASED since joining PPP. Again-thanks for the publicity!

22. DingBat Drogar on October 19, 2006 11:48 am

    WOW, cool list. Oh no, wait a second, what’s this! You have a Performancing Partners logo at the bottom of your site. LOL! You’re listing paid blogs as something to avoid while being paid to blog by a company in competition with PPP.

    Silly boy.

23. Frederic on October 19, 2006 12:40 pm

    The difference between running an ad, be it Google Adsense or Performancing Partners and a deceptive scheme such as PPP is that the readers know exactly when they see an ad.
    In a PPP blog, the reader does not know what is an ad and what is not if the blogger does not disclose the fact.
    Using advertising always means walking the fine line between ethical and unethical behavior. PPP is so clearly unethical, I find it laughable that grown up people would even try to defend it.

24. Crystal on October 19, 2006 7:37 pm

    My blog is fairly new - and I have to say thanks:) Whenever these get posted, my technorati ranking goes up and I’m betting my google ranking will to!!
    Not to mention the extra traffic from your readers…

25. Xial on October 20, 2006 12:02 am

    Frederic, I’m sorry, but your opinion isn’t entirely based on fact.

    It’s up to the blogger to choose to disclose.
    A number of us (possibly a growing number, but I really didn’t bother to conduct a poll on this yet) actually make some sort of disclosure on the entries in question.
    I actually made a change in my disclosure method, to make it more visible, but aesthetically so.

    However, on a brief tangent, what about those Coca-Cola, Audi, and Converse plugs in I, Robot, or the numerous backhanded references to various food products (Doritos, Pringles, among others) in Over the Hedge? Technically, that’s also a form of advertisement, and they clearly don’t disclose *that* in the movies…

26. Carrie S. on October 20, 2006 10:11 am

    In a PPP blog, the reader does not know what is an ad and what is not if the blogger does not disclose the fact.

    And yet you don’t check individual blogs to see whether they disclose or not; you just say “anyone who uses PPP is unethical”. Interesting, that. One might almost think you had some sort of grudge or hidden agenda. Like, I dunno, working for a competing service like Performancing Partners.

    But that couldn’t be it, right?

27. dreamsINdigital on October 20, 2006 1:20 pm

    Thanks for the link!

28. andrena on October 20, 2006 1:31 pm

    hey! you forgot about me!!!

29. Frederic on October 20, 2006 2:22 pm

    Xial - You are absolutely right - bloggers can choose to reveal their relationship with PPP or not. The problem I have with this system is that the blogger does not have to do this. You create a situation where a reader, because of this, can not trust ANY blog that gives a product recommendation. Was the writer paid? Does he/she really like the product? That, I think, creates an atmosphere I do not want to see in the blogosphere.
    If you disclose your relationship, you are a step ahead of the other ‘Posties’ in terms of ethics, but you are still enabling the system to work.

30. Allan Cheng on October 20, 2006 7:46 pm

    Thank you for the link . Anyway which Postie would lie and say we’re not affiliated with PayPerPost? I think it’s pretty obvious who is with them or not, and if you ask me a lot of us are proud to be PayPerPosties. I actually have a community :).

    As for calling us evil, for those hating our blogs and what we do, just ignore us? You guys are actually giving more exposure to us AND PayPerPost.

31. More PPP Haters « My Thoughts on October 20, 2006 8:58 pm

    […] Ok, I’m a happy PayPerPost member even though I’m not able to get paid yet. I’ve met some really cool people and found some really cool blogs thanks to them.(check out page 2 of my blog) Apparently alot of people still are hating on PPP and I don’t quite get it. I just discovered that some guy with ads all over his site is ranting about them and us. He even went to Colleen’s blog and copied her PPP Blogroll into his post called “More PayPerPost Blogs to Avoid” I think thats awfully low but thats another link to my blog on his site so I’m all for it. I wish people would get a life. Some of my fellow posties posted comments like: […]

32. Ameliorations on October 21, 2006 1:37 pm

    […] The Last Podcast has made several lists of blogs to avoid because of their use of PPP, mine happens to be in both lists. Well, if you folks want to avoid my blog because of that, fine. But you’ll also miss out on other, non-PPP entries that do populate my blog (and in truth still make up the majority of my entries). All such lists do is get me a higher ranking in Technorati and Google. I let the quality of all my posts, this one included, speak for themselves. […]

33. Sandra on October 27, 2006 11:03 pm

    Just figured I would say hi since you were kind enough to link to me. Thanks!

    I have Family C.A.R.E. (Family Caring for America’s Retired and Elderly) and Phantascene.com’s Journal up there. I also have other blogs that can be found linked from either of those blogs. It’s nice to see some of the blogs that I like to read here too, and makes me wonder if anyone else realizes that PPPers tend to enjoy reading one another’s blogs? (If they were as bad as some say you’d think we would not like one another’s blogs, huh?)

    I’m afraid that both Phantascene and the Family C.A.R.E. website (www.familycaregiver.info) are a little backlogged on being updated - but my dad being in and out of the ICU and going in for tests and things has left me with not a lot of time to work on a website, much less two of them.

    PayPerPost has been absolutely WONDERFUL in my being able to afford to help buy him a powered wheelchair and motivating me to at least keep my blogs going, and I’m looking forward in a few days to paying the amount due on my own emergency visit to the hospital earlier this year. My readers know I post in-content ads and why and I have not had any complaints about it. In fact, like others, I’ve noticed a significant increase in traffic to my site. I’ve also received compliments from people telling me how much they like my blogs.

    So, thanks for the links, it’s really helping me to find a larger audience.

34. Abdul on March 11, 2007 3:43 pm

    lol, i find it funny how you were out to destroy ppp blogs, but are instead helping them out.

35. Jmcgready on February 26, 2008 10:40 pm

    Thanks for the link, although I haven’t done a PPP post in more than a year (nor will I, for that matter).

    But I guess any link’s a good link, even if it’s ill deserved.

    Thanks, I guess…