Internet Marketing Strategies and Marketing Tips by Neil Shearing

A week ago, PayPerPost.com added $100 to my account. I guess they wanted me to start using the account. I’d previously set up an account, but hadn’t “funded” it. So, providing I used it within 3 days, they said they’d add $100 to the balance. Nice.

So I posted an “opportunity” for their network of bloggers to write about this blog. They’d get paid $5 per post (if PayPerPost.com approved it) and I’d pay for a maximum of 15 posts ($15 x 5 = $75, plus service fees = $98.75). I’m not exactly sure how they calculate the service fees… it seems a bit high to me… but it’s not my service.

So, I’d basically use the free $100 to get 15 posts about this site on people’s blogs.

My opportunity was approved on Thursday and today, one week after the initial email, I see that 15 people have blogged about NeilShearing.com as a result of using the service.

Apparently, those posts have resulted in 1600+ views. I’m slightly skeptical about that number because most of the blogs have little or no PR… and 1100 views have come from just one post. Hmmm. Still, I was doing it more for the links than the traffic, and 15 nice shiny new links to the blog is exciting… especially as it was free money I was paying the bloggers with.

(If you plan to use PayPerPost to earn money, you’ll need to clearly say on your blog that you’re accepting sponsorship)

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