Archive for February, 2009

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Over the past six months or so I have started pointing people in the general direction of the various review networks that I am part of, I like to think that I have become something of an expert at knowing the best ones to deal with and the ones to steer clear from like the dreaded and infamous plague.

But I was put in my place today when I was told that I had missed a review network off my list. At first I thought the guy was having me on and was just trying to get one over on me, I was the king of knowing about these sites one could surely not have possibly found its way past my radar!

Alas (and I don’t admit this very often) I was wrong. I checked out the link and blow me down we have a new review network on the scene to add to the already impressive list we already have.

Paying Post is the name of the new game in town (in my eyes).

The first thing that hit me about the site was how nice the design looked and how fast it loads. Some of the others take an age to load up and some have absolutely terrible designs. So a big gold star right off the bat!

Once your blog is accepted you must add a piece of code to your blog and then you will be able to see what offers are open to your blog. they decide what offers you can bid on by looking at your Alexa ranking and your PR rank.

It does require you to have a minimum of $50.00 in your account before they pay out but I think this will encourage only serious bloggers, who want to make money blogging, to sign up to the site, which is a good thing.

They also have a very informative blog where you can find solutions to any problems you may have and they even post solutions to general blog problems like how to put links and images into your posts. They also have some interesting news items on the blog as well.

If you have not given Paying Post a go yet, or you have never heard of them before, then why not sign up and give them a whirl? If you don’t find any offers available to you then have no fear as they have an affiliate program and also can get people from your blog to buy a review from you through their Direct option.

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A lot of people who read this blog on a regular basis will be aware that I have been moving away from using PayPerPost due to the way that they treat their bloggers and the way they basicaly run their company.

Today I was asked by another review network that I am part of to choose between them and PayPerPost, as I am assuming they have suffered some problems due to having blogs that offer reviews from them and PayPerPost.

It was a no-brainer for me. I had been told that my blog was a load of shit by PayPerPost so I visited their site and saw that I was still owed $14.00. I know it is not a lot but they owed it to me so I sent them an email politely asking them if they could tell me when it would be paid.

They sent me an auto reply saying it would be sent 30 days after the post was approved. This confused me slightly as the last post I had done was approved 194 days ago, so they were late by about 164 days.

I sent them a second email disclosing my confusion and they replied to me to say that they had checked their records and claimed that I was not owed any money. After rechecking my account low and behold the $14.00 had magically disappeared.

I neglected to take a screen cap of the site so I have no option but to let it drop. But I’m glad that I am no longer oging to use a company that would try and con a blogger out of money they had earned by following the rules.

I have been told that I might have made the correct decision to leave PayPerPost as they are now allowing advertisers to charge merely $0.50 for 200 word reviews. I’m not sure who is stupider, PayPerPost for letting advertiser do it or the bloggers who snap them up.

Goodbye PayPerPost and go fuck yourself!

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We all know that submitting your blog to search engines and directories is very important in the effort to get more traffic to your blog but how many of you were aware of submitting your RSS feeds to RSS search engines and directories?

Submitting your RSS feed to these dirrectories is probably just as important as submitting your blog to a search engine. I have listed twenty sites below to get your teeth sunk into.

RSSMountain.com
Feedest.com
Blogoculars.com
2RSS.com
FeedsFarm.com
FeedsHoster.com
Plazoo.com
feedfury.com
rssmountain.com
findrss.net
rssmotron.com
rss-feeds-submission.com
MillionRSS.com
blogdigger.com
WeBlogAlot.com
feedboy.com
blogpulse.com
IceRocket.com
FeedShark.BrainBliss.com
FeedPlex.com

These are just twenty of the ones that I managed to find after a quick search one Google. I am sure there are many more and if you know of any then feel free to list them in the comments section of this post.

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