Comments on: More PayPerPost Blogs to Avoid http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/ Opinionated Web 2.0 News and Commentary Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:04:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jage http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-52650 Jage Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:10:51 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/#comment-52650 uups, so long list :) uups, so long list :)

]]> By: Jmcgready http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-48726 Jmcgready Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:40:13 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/#comment-48726 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... 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…

]]> By: Abdul http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-30550 Abdul Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:43:32 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/#comment-30550 lol, i find it funny how you were out to destroy ppp blogs, but are instead helping them out. lol, i find it funny how you were out to destroy ppp blogs, but are instead helping them out.

]]> By: Sandra http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-7823 Sandra Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:03:52 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/#comment-7823 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. 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.

]]> By: Ameliorations http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-7122 Ameliorations Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:37:34 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/#comment-7122 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

]]> By: More PPP Haters « My Thoughts http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-7058 More PPP Haters « My Thoughts Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:58:05 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/#comment-7058 [...] 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: [...] [...] 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: [...]

]]> By: Allan Cheng http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-7050 Allan Cheng Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:46:05 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/#comment-7050 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. 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.

]]> By: Frederic http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-7030 Frederic Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:22:42 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/#comment-7030 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. 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.

]]> By: andrena http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-7027 andrena Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:31:02 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/#comment-7027 hey! you forgot about me!!! :-) hey! you forgot about me!!! :-)

]]> By: dreamsINdigital http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-7026 dreamsINdigital Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:20:54 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/#comment-7026 Thanks for the link! :) Thanks for the link! :)

]]> By: Carrie S. http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-7020 Carrie S. Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:11:59 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/#comment-7020 <i>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.</i> 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? 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?

]]> By: Xial http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-6997 Xial Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:02:02 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/#comment-6997 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 <em>I, Robot</em>, or the numerous backhanded references to various food products (Doritos, Pringles, among others) in <em>Over the Hedge</em>? Technically, that's also a form of advertisement, and they clearly don't disclose *that* in the movies... :) 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… :)

]]> By: Crystal http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-6978 Crystal Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:37:01 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/#comment-6978 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... 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…

]]> By: Frederic http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-6946 Frederic Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:40:20 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/#comment-6946 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. 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.

]]> By: DingBat Drogar http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/comment-page-1/#comment-6944 DingBat Drogar Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:48:17 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/more-payperpost-blogs-to-avoid/#comment-6944 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. 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.

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