What are Paid Posts?

If you already know what paid posts are and just want to see a list of them and sign up, visit my Get Paid To Blog list. Otherwise, read on and then go back to the list. There is also a link on the menu at the top if you want to look around the site and check it out later.

Paid posts are an easy way for bloggers to make money or for advertisers to get links, reviews, and customers. You know how when you watch your favorite TV show and they zoom in on the car so you can see what model it is, or they hold up a can of soda so you can see what brand it is? Paid posts are like that, for a blog.

As a blogger paid posts can be a good source of income. If your site has a high Google PR, Alexa Rating, or other score, such as those that some of the paid to blog sites employ, you can make a decent income. To start off with, you might make $5 for a paid post. Sometimes less, sometimes more. Fairly quickly, and sometimes right away, you should be making $10-$20 for a paid post. A really high traffic site can make significantly more.

As an advertiser paid posts can be an easy way to increase your exposure. You offer a little money for paid posts and then you get several bloggers looking at your site. Many of these bloggers will look around, maybe read some of what you have to say, and then decide that it is not right for their blog. Others will write about it and you will pay them a small fee and you will get some great buzz off of it.

Google seems to not like paid posts. They have set up their system so that those who write too many paid posts loose their PR. They say that if causes problems for their search engines. Some of the pay to post sites allow you to use no-follow links, which will help with this issue, but most do not. You should think about how this will effect you before you decide to do it. Many say that PR is a useless metric, others use it for a lot of advertising, so it is a decision only you can make and a discussion for another post.

Over the next few weeks I will be discussing paid posts more and how they can be useful and how they can be detrimental. I hope you will follow the series. To watch the series, follow my paid posts tag.