Earn by Doing Paid Reviews with PayPerPost
Don’t mistake this post for the very first “I signed up for PayPerPost” $20-worth of opportunity that PPP gives to its new members. I’m not getting paid by IZEA to promote their site in this post. I am grateful to them because they had already given me huge earnings from simply doing paid reviews. I hope PayPerPost would NOT eliminate my blogs from doing paid reviews: there is ongoing blog audit happening at PPP.
That was the total amount that I had already earned from PayPerPost since I’ve signed up with them. It is not really much. Top earners in PPP get more than $1000 each month. Most of the paid reviews I’ve earned here was from another blog.
All of these earnings go out to my Paypal account. Paypal is the only way to take out earnings from doing paid reviews, so anyone living in a country that supports Paypal well can sign up with the site and begin to take opportunities from the site. I did not even need a premium or business account to simply receive all the earnings; all I had is a personal Paypal account. For those in the Philippines, if you are interested to know more about it then visit this page and look under the category Paypal.
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How to Earn from Paid Reviews
In the beginning PayPerPost began an alternative concept to earn income from blogs: it is simply out to be an alternative for bloggers to earn instead of earning little from advertisements provided by Google Adsense, Chitika, Adbrite and other similar ad networks. I had to admit that even with a good traffic for several months on this blog, I have not earned much with Google Adsense.
PayPerPost allows bloggers to get paid to do reviews on a product or service. Each paid review can run to as little as 50 words to a full 300-word review. The lowest amount that can be earned from doing reviews is at $5.
A blogger simply submits his or her blog to get approved. The approval is done manually; usually a blog gets reviewed within a few days. Not all blogs qualify for doing paid reviews with them. Some of the requirements are: that the blog should not contain offensive content such as nudity, violence, political issues, and that it should be written in English. The blog eligibility written under the PPP’s terms of service contains a full list of blogs that are qualified for doing paid reviews.
Once that a blog is approved, the blogger can start taking opportunities that his or her blogs are qualified for.
Which opportunities are available for blogging?
There could be more than a hundred of available opportunities that bloggers get to see in a day, but my blog qualifies for a fraction of the opportunities that are available. The main factors that affect my qualification is my blog’s Google page rank, Alexa ranking and Realrank. The Realrank is an new internal ranking system used by PPP that is entirely dependent on the traffic and influence of blogs throughout the blogosphere.
Of all the metrics that PPP had placed, I still find Google page rank as the most important metric. A better Google page rank means more opportunities are available. Blogs sitting at higher Google page ranks are qualified for higher paying opportunities that cost even more than a $100. A Google page rank of 7 on a blog is very high; advertisers are willing to pay big bucks to bloggers with blogs sitting at higher page ranks.
My humble blog only sits on a page rank 3. Indeed, what I had posted previously about a $100 review is NOT something that I see on my account everyday!
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wow malaki na earnings mo sa PPP. my socialspark earning hasn’t even break the $200 mark. konti lang nakukuha ko sa PPP unlike SocialSpark. I wonder why.
@Calvin
That’s over several months. SocialSpark is still new.
waaaaahh $29 pa lang ang earnings ko sa PPP waaahhh three months na ako member nyan tapos $29 lang nakukuha ko… Ok lang sa Social spark kasi pabilisan lang ng kamay pero sa PPP pataasan ng PR tapos ako kawawa kasi PR0. Kainggit naman yun earnings mo sa PPP. Paano kaya mag PR5. Bili kaya ako ng domain makakatulong yun?
@Pastilan
mahirap nga sa PPP, kasi sa PR. I have no idea kung paano PR5. Di makakatulong ang domain, mag-i-start ka sa PR0.
wow. that’s a lot of money. :O
thanks for the post. very informative. makes me want to eventually start another blog to take advantage of this. :O
@kouji
I’d agree that’s a good amount, and yes another blog.
@Gem so SEO talaga ang solution, but SEO is a mystery.
I don’t think you will be cut off because the quality of your blog is good enough to pass their standard! Been doing it for two months now and so far I have earned $307, so that’s not bad considering that am a newbie..
Bout Pastilan’s inquiry, owning your domain increases the available opportunity but not with PR.. When I bought my domain, dumami opps ko..
@ckulit I’m planning to buy a domain name from 1and1, mura lang doon eh,
@Pastilan
SEO does not have anything to do with taking paid reviews from sites.
@ckulit
Thanks! But it is still up to PPP whether they think this blog is good for them or not.
mamamia! your rich hehehe c: pahirapan kumuha dun tapos wala manlang nareject sayo your lucky dear c:
@iceah
Not really! Haha! I had some rejected posts but I usually clear these issues o kaya i-cancel ang mga nagawa kong reviews.
I am happy with the thought even though I earn very little in blogging, still, through your site I know there are so many opportunities I can find if ever I lost my job. These days, it is hard to be secured with our jobs here, especially the US economy is in deep turmoil, always good to be prepared. And I really love blogging anyway, I get the chance to meet a lot I may have not otherwise met, and the very little money I earn I consider it as an icing, just to inspire myself to write more often
@Gem but I read from almost everywhere that putting PPP and other paid to post widgets kills a blog’s PR. But when I see that you have SponsoredReviews widget and still you are PR3.
I have many books about SEO and I have read some of them, what I found out is that it all boils down to just writing original content and being aware about keywords, no special trick whatsoever because Google’s system of ranking webpages is not really know. All the books about SEO are just theories, you can not really see a clear and sure method of SEO. i don’t know, that’s just how I see it.
Hi Gem, whatever happened to my comment? The first 2 paragraphs were deleted, hahahaha! My fault!
Anyway, I was saying “Congratulations! I am so happy for you, and it seems you are doing a good job in writing PPP. I have no idea about PPP, but it is nice to know about these opportunities and thanks always for sharing it to us. I actually earn very little with my San Diego Backroads blog too, first month, I earned $53.00, hihhihi, it may be too little, but since I really blog for free in friendster anyway, so I just write more now about the same thing at Today and get a few cents here and there.
continuation….(the first comment above…sorry)
@betchai and pastilan
Nagsabay kayo hahaha! I think that’s what happened with betchai’s comment.
@betchai
I think Today.com pays for every post that you make. A better alternative to WordPress.com. And thanks!
@pastilan
Yes, other bloggers believe that. I still think the PR algorithm remains a mystery. It is some sort of Google’s secret.
Hi Gem, you’re correct again
Yes, Today pays us $1.00 for every 100 word post/day for the first month plus $2.00 per 1,000 unique visits. Since I have a full time job to attend to, I could not post everyday, I think I only had 15 or 17 posts August when I started, so I only earned $17 from writing about my hiking escapades, $25 from the sign-on bonus, and and $11 from unique visits, hihi, you can tell my visits are too low since I have no idea about social networking, except Entrecard.
Every month, they evaulate your blog if you would still be paid the same, or lower or higher. So far, mine, is still the same.
Also, they have content writing, which is paid $5.00 if approved. Since I have no time to write except for my hiking, I only tried two, that is reviewing Disneyland and a REsort here, so, they paid me $10.00 for it. The content calls I guess have very few willing writers since I see them being displayed in my accound for several days, I think no one fights to write about them
, like, I don’t since I don’t have the time. It was only that one day where I had wisdon tooth extraction and was stuck at home and nothing to do that made me pick 2 content calls 
But if I don’t have a full time job to attend to, for sure, I will grab more content calls. Also, the content writing won’t appear in your blog, it is bought from you, since they want your blog to stick to your theme. I am not a writer really, so I chose the easiest theme, which is hiking.
Yes, it is better alternative to WordPress. I have blogs in wordpress and friendster, but since I do not earn anything from them, I blog seldom there.
K, too much ramblong.
Gem, so sorry, I rambled too much, too many typo in above comment, sorry guid
Hihihi, you see, we save energy here in California, I don’t turn on the light, so I do not see my keyboard, hahahaha!
Today.com is not for everyone? I tried to sign up there but it says : “Registration unavailable in your location. “
@betchai
It is okay to ramble too much. I love it when people get to read my posts. One of the ways that I see when people get to read my stuff is when they participate by leaving a comment. The longer the comment the better. =)
I agree that the higher your PageRank, the better is your blog in the eyes of PPP.
But it’s so hard to reach a PR of 7. I can only sigh because none of my blogs are near that.
@Pastilan, sorry, I do not know Today.com is not for everyone. It is freely hosted, and I know we have some Japanese bloggers. They pay through paypal, so I do not see why they could not open it to countries who are served by Paypal. I’ll ask in our forum. One of my recruit, she blogs about our culture in the Philippines, but then, yes, her home address is here in US, now that is sad if bloggers are limited to some locations only.
@ Gem, thanks for understanding
@betchai
You’ll notice from my comment post policy that I don’t like “nice post” one-liners! Haha.. I think you get lots that kind of spam from wordpress-style today.com.
@pinoycopywriter
Yes that’s difficult. =(… Famous blogs that do paid reviews hover near PR3 to PR4.
wow, that’s already a lot. Ako seldom lang talaga makakuha ng opps at PPP, usually naka gray na…huhuhu…
@ckulit: $307? wow… that’s a lot for me already. :O i could get a netbook with that… or a nifty cameraphone… or a…
I really haven’t had an opportunity at PPP…. it was that pr issue i guess, i have a few from social spark though but no that big.. Congrats gem!
Hey there ate Gem! Owh, so your also in PPP. I been working n that matter since then. But I’m quite afraid if my page would the requirements. So if not a big disturb, Can you help on improving the rank of my page.
I will check if there are opportunities to review career services or headhunters. Those are the types of things I’d want to review in my blog. Thanks for the post.
I’m going to try this out thanks for the info, when I started the blog My Cheap Tech I never considered making money from it.
Since I pretty much review products and sites on my blog already this sounds like a winner.
HEllo, congratz to ur earnings. that’s nice and motivating. I just wonder kung magkano mababayaran sa tax? Kasi malapit na rin ako sa limit eh
hope we’ll earn more out of izea.
and bat merong naka green dun sa list ng blogs mo? daya, nakahide!!!
Hi Gem,
Dami ko natutunan syo in terms of paid blogging. Lalo na dito sa site na’to. Huh! Isa pa lng approve ko sa PPP. Ang hirap nga kumuha dun. Ask ko lng with regards sa social spark, paano ko edit ang uploaded pic at account info ko? Hindi ko tlaga alam.
By the I am very happy for you. It turned out pretty well in terms of blogging. Thanks I learned so much in your post. Hehehe
@Sam
Thanks. Segmentation kasi ang PPP, which means yung ibang opps available sa ilang countries lang. Hirap kumuha sa PPP pag ala o mababa ang PR mo.
I’m hearing about this pay per post thing a couple of months back from some social friends. I never got interested to it and just thought that this is not worth my time. After reading this blog, i somehow realized that i might really get paid with blogging. Writing has always been my favorite, even way back in my college days.
It sure is worth the try.