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Some people may have a problem with receiving payment for a blog post, but I hope they don’t hang out here.

From the very first time I heard about Pay Per Post, I thought it was a great idea.

Advertisers get to create buzz about their business.
Bloggers get to earn money doing what they do – blogging!

In my opinion, it’s no different than website owners and bloggers placing Google AdSense or other advertising on their websites to earn money. We’re in this to put food on the table and clothes on the kid’s backs, no?

Most of the blog posts I’ve read on other people’s blogs that were sponsored were still fun, informative and often led me to a cool new resource on the Internet.

As a blogger, I get to choose what topics I will write about. I’m going to pick topics that are relevant to my audience, and I’m also going to check out the website I’m getting paid to write about to make sure it’s cool.

Those are just my thoughts. What are yours?

Basics Of How To Use Pay Per Post

If you have a blog, you can monetize it several different ways. You can accept outside advertising from sponsors, you can add Google Adwords and be paid when someone clicks on one of your ads, you can put up affiliate links or ads for your own products and you can also register for a blog payment service.

PPP is a a blog payment service that will pay you to post about products, services and topics on. The payouts will generally start out at about $5 per post and they can go up from there.

Each blog payment service has specific guidelines about the blogs they will accept. Generally speaking, your blog will need to be at least 90 days old, on its own domain, you’ll need to post on a pretty regular basis (about 3 times per week) and you cannot have any lapses of 30 days with no posts.

To register for Pay Per Post, simply visit the website and fill out a form with some basic information. They will ask some questions about the type of blog you have and who your target readership is. If you are accepted, you will be notified via email.

Once you have been approved, you log into the website and see what type of opportunities are available to you. They may ask you to post 50 or 100 words in your post. You may be required to add an image, which is hosted in a server somewhere else so it won’t take up space on your web host. You just need to post a minimum amount of words and include a link to the referring website.

You will then log into PPP and let them know you have completed the assignment. You will need to give them the title of your blog post as well as the URL to that specific post. An administrator will review your post and once it is approved, your payment will follow in about 30 days. Most of these services send payment via PayPal. Once you have been paid, you can delete the post if you choose.

My 6 year old Julien isn’t really sure how I make money online, but he knows that it has something to do with typing. He will often come up to me and ask, “Mommy, are you making money right now?”

I’ve explained to him that I don’t make money every time I sit down at the computer (for instance, checking email and stats and stuff doesn’t earn me a dime), but that when I am typing things (writing articles, blogging, etc), I’m earning money. So now when he sees me typing away, he asks, “Mom, you’re typing. That means you’re making money!” So cute.

Well, I recently found another way to make money when I type. Lynn Terry, whose blog I have been faithfully following since she launched it, wrote about a company called Pay Per Post recently. Now this wasn’t the first time I had heard about PPP, but her blog post made me sit up and pay attention! You can read her post here. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

Did you notice that she earned over $1500 in her spare time with PPP? Now, I know Lynn to be a person of character. Her advice has never steered me wrong and in fact I have credited her here before for being the person who helped me launch my very first affiliate site which became immediately profitable. While you’re at her site, go ahead and add her blog’s RSS feed to your reader. She always has valuable advice to share.

Now, there are several ways you can make money blogging. This is just another sweet little way of going about it.

In a nutshell, you sign up for a free account and enter your blog for consideration. Then after pasting some code into your blog’s html, you look at all the opportunities available for you to get paid.

The advertisers are willing to pay you to talk about them! The payments vary. Some are a couple of bucks, some are a whole lot more.

But here’s the thing: Blogging, even when you’re talking about someone else’s business, is still smart for your overall marketing efforts. Why?

Because you’re giving your blog visitors something interesting to read (after all, you’ll be choosing opportunities that are appropriate to your audience) and adding search engine food to your blog which will in turn only bring in more visitors.

It’s a nice deal all around.

People who launch a blog on their site often have the dilemna of “don’t know what to blog about”. Logging into your Pay Per Post account and viewing the opportunities to earn money posting to your blog sounds like a great way to overcome writer’s block, no?

Take a look at Pay Per Post and see what you think.