Today, on Source Blogger, we’re going to take a look at the 5 best pay per posts sites available to you as a blogger.
Before we begin – a disclosure: At the present time, Source Blogger is not part of any pay per post network. Any/all requests for advertising, sponsored reviews, or sponsored posts must be solicited to Source Blogger via the contact form in this site’s navigation bar. The Source Blogger affiliate policy and disclosure policy are available upon request.
With that being said, any and all links to the following pay per post services will not contain an affiliate link of any kind.
What is Pay Per Post Blogging? And Who’s Doing It?
I recently read a stat on Twitter that said: “34% of bloggers post opinions about products, brands, and services.”
Pay per post blogging (which I see from research came into prominence some time in 2006) is slowly becoming the primary method for how many bloggers earn money online. If I was going to put my finger (sort to speak) on what sector of blogging that has really capitalized on this opportunity, it would have to be “Mommy Bloggers”. Think about it. What blogging group has access to the ideal target market for advertisers? – other Mothers, of course!
Now normally, it’s you who dictates the content of your blog. With pay per post blogging, you are writing sponsored posts and reviews for advertisers wanting to give greater exposure to their products and services. Your goal is to locate an opportunity and introduce it ever-so-subtle to your blog’s present readership as to not be disruptive.
The pay per post concept is the best method to find the right advertisers for you as a blogger and for advertisers to locate the kind of writer that best represents what they are trying to accomplish.
The role of pay per post blogging sites is to match advertiser and writer all in one place. Of course there are guidelines – such as the number of links to display, as well as other factors including creativity, originality, and length. When the deed is done, the pay per post site will take a cut of your earnings – thank you very much!
What was surprising to me was how much advertisers were willing to pay for your services. I’ve seen amounts as little as $2, to as much as a $1000!
$1000 is a nice payday for ANY blogger.
The 5 Best Pay Per Post Sites For Your Blog (Listed By Alexa Rank)
SponsoredReviews – (Alexa Rank: 1,600)
SponsoredReviews.com is a blog advertising network that allows you to build links, increase traffic, and improve search engine rankings on your website(s). They have tens of thousands of independent bloggers who will write blog reviews about your site on their blog. Also referred to as Paid Posts, blog reviews are a great way to increase your search engine rankings and traffic.
Blogvertise – (Alexa Rank: 2,600)
Advertisers want YOU to mention and talk about their websites products and services in your blogs and journals. They want the publicity, the exposure, the Buzz! that online bloggers and internet journals can generate for their web site products and services. In exchange Blogsvertise pays YOU in paypal per task/blog entry, for writing / talking about / mentioning their website in your blog!
LinkWorth – (Alexa Rank: 4,200)
LinkWorth is one of the web’s largest and most innovative marketing portals that caters to both Advertisers and Partners. They have a multitude of products and services to fill your every online marketing need.
Products consist of text link ads, paid blog reviews, in-text links, in-content pay per click ads, rotating text ads, hosted content pages, article submission, directory submission and many more.
Review Me – (Alexa Rank: 5,000)
Typically, large companies get their products/services reviewed by other Web sites/blogs benefitting from the traffic, viral nature of reviews, and valuable feedback, while new market players find it hard to get the word out about their products.
ReviewMe’s marketplace of web authors will review your product or service on their Web site sending your site traffic, viral buzz, and invaluable feedback.
SocialSpark: (Alexa Rank: 6,900)
SocialSpark is a blog marketing network that connects advertisers with bloggers through an online marketplace.
Advertisers can purchase blog marketing as sponsored posts or blog ads. Pricing for our blog advertising solutions include PPP, CPA and pay per day blog sponsorship.
Bloggers can make money blogging by either placing ads on blogs or writing blog reviews.
Honorable Mention:
- BuyBlogReviews – (Alexa Rank: 7,800)
- PayPerPost – (Alexa Rank: 15,100)
- Smorty – (Alexa Rank: 17,900)
Does your blog participate in pay per posts / sponsored reviews? Have you gotten feedback from readers? Are they finding this helpful or a distraction? Are there pay per post networks that are working for you and would like to share them here?
Have you read a sponsored review? Even though you could sense the article was sponsored, did you find it useful anyway? Is pay per post really just another way for bloggers to “sell out?”
31 Comments
I found this post to be hugely helpful and there are a few sites I am going to check out that I am unfamiliar with.
I did discover recently that a couple of these sites require you to submit your social security number or tax ID which made me rather nervous.
Is that practice the norm?
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Hi Caren!
This information is solely for tax reporting purposes.
If you have a concern about a particular ad network or pay-per-post site, request more information from them directly. Ask them for their privacy policy and have them reinforce the fact that you are protective of your information.
My motto is: “When in doubt, don’t give it out!”
Personally, I use the E.I.N./Tax I.D. of my LLC.
Thank you for your comment, Caren.
Jeffrey Baril – Source Blogger
I’ve signed up for two of the mentioned services and when I had multiple blogs running, it was still pretty tough to find those opportunities that ‘fit’ with any of my blogs.
Example; I was running a mental health blog for over a year, but for some reason, any opps that came out had NOTHING to do with the mental health world…at all.
I agree that these may provide some decent income, but if you’re running with a narrow niche, don’t expect to have many ‘subtle’ posts if and when those opps do arise.
Thanks for the list, I’ll look over the other offerings as well and maybe my tune will change.
-Rich
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Rich,
If I had the time, I would build a parallel blog that would simply harbor sponsored posts, sponsored links, and sponsored reviews. The blog would have no real target audience and would merely focus on the best-paying opportunities of advertisers.
Wait… Is that possible? Would that be satisfying enough? For most the answer would be no – which proves that it’s not all about the money.
I think for most that are driven to achieve something, this is not the path they would take.
p.s. Glad to see you back in circulation. If I remember correctly, you and I spoke when Source Blogger was on Blogger prior to migrating to WordPress.
Jeffrey Baril – Source Blogger
I have written for Blogvertise, but they tend to send me offers I can’t accept. I may try out SponsoredReviews.com
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Rose,
I’m delighted to see you on Source Blogger and thank you for the retweet.
I find your conversational element very refreshing for Twitter and enjoy your #blogchat tweets. I’d like to contribute more to your network’s conversations on some of the topics that are discussed.
Jeffrey Baril – Source Blogger
This post is indeed helpful! Thanks for sharing!
Blogsvertise is my number source of money. I am earning 50 bucks in a month using one of my blogs.
I have my account in sponsored reviews but I haven’t got any opportunity from them. Still hoping.
*fingers crossed*
@Jeffrey Indeed we have, it has been awhile and thank you for the recognition…impressive memory as well.
Nice to see the site on WP…welcome to the dark side!
Helpful indeed. I’ve never used those type sites before, always finding privately handled is better for all. Maybe some in the future though, we’ll see what happens.
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this looks like a sweet deal Jeffrey.. I’ve written a few reviews myself but I wasnt getting paid for them… I guess this would inspire me to write a good review now, thanks!
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I have a small niche and would prefer to choose my own products to review. Interesting post though if I eventually have other blogs.
Patricia Perth Australia
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I tried PPP before but didn’t enjoyed it. It is more fun writing a topic that you are more familiar with.
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You missed one site, that is payperpost and another site buyblogreviews. Thanks for listing these great service but I do not recommend them as it can be PR killer
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Hi Jeffrey, It’s been awhile since stopping by, a few health problems limits my time on-line. So anyways I’m presently signed up with Sponsored Tweets and have just signed up also with Izea… I noticed that you haven’t mentioned them here. I will also add that when I first started blogging I was told to stay away from Review Me as it would bring down someones PR…if one is interested in PageRank. Great article with a great list. Glad to see your doing so well, and I love your new theme very easy on the eyes and a professional feel. Well done. jj
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I tried sponsored reviews couple of months back and stopped it due to sudden increase of commission share by SR. Now waiting for reviewme to get some software or blog reviews. Getting good income through affiliate sales.
Great article. expecting more to learn.
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I’ve tried every single one of these services and have had the most success with PPP before they morphed into the weird “blogspot” blog filled “Social spark”.
I use none of them now since I got tired of all of the “ownership” and hidden coding you have to hide in your posts, even with a disclosure policy as a separate page.
I guess these would be ok if you had a high PR blog that strictly did review posts. I get more personal and express my opinion for any of these to work for me anymore.
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I used to use ppp. PayPerPost was an instant success. However, then they started getting nasty with me. It was all down hill from there and the five dollar minimum is gone. I hear it is 50 cents now. Writing quality content for 50 cents is not my cup of tea and should not be yours.
I have a question/concern. The only one of these companies I’ve tried to work with is social spark. But, during the sign up process, they want my wordpress user name and password plus the ability to direct publish. I understand this is to verify google analytic stats, but surely there is another way. I should not have to give my blogs username and password to anyone! Am I just being paranoid? Are they all like this?
I’m not all that thrilled with sponsored posts to begin with, but if was a product I really enjoyed, I would probably write about it anyway, so why not get paid for it.
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Angie I don’t think you are being paranoid at all. I would feel exactly the same. I signed on with a few people mentioned here and never heard anything back at all…..go figure……….
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Thanks for record these are grand. Overhaul attractive post though if I ultimately have extra blogs.
Thanks for sharing this post with us i really searching a way for making money with my blog and then i find your blog on google and your blog post gives me some idea so thanks
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Hi Jeffrey,
Well, talk about your ‘perfect timing’…
I’ve been pondering starting a blog based on product reviews and then to find this blog (post) hmm, would this be considered serendipity?
Anyway, thanks for the info and I’ll be reading your blog on a regular basis from here on out!
Great Stuff Mr!
Have a Fabulous (upcoming) weekend!
–snookiecollins
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Hi Snookie,
Yes… serendipity (looks in dictionary… OK I like that) Yes, thanks! lol
Well, welcome to Source Blogger. How are you?
I look forward to future contributions by you and I hope you got some value out of the article.
Don’t hesitate to reach out to me.
Jeffrey Baril of Source Blogger
Thank for this information, i like writing and I feel this time to begin. Make money with myhobby.
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The post is really very useful. Recently i signed up with payperpost but i think they wont allow blogspot blogs. If any review site allows blogspot blogs please mail me at rakeshkumar.akuthota@gmail.com Thanks in advance
I think this is great way to earn some income through blogs
Very nice for the try
thanks for this info…
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I found this site very useful indeed. Thanks for your effort for helping us(all bloggers) to earn by blogging. Though i haven’t started till now but I hope to earn online by posting through blogger as your site had described to me.
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This article is really useful for me. I was looking for some source reviews about Pay Per Post.
Thanks.
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Very nice but writing review on another product which is not your niche can really debase your PR. Thanks all the same
Weltsecret,
“Can really debase your Page Rank?” Hmmm… I would the say the impact is negligible, at best.
To me, a far greater impact is the obvious intent to deviate from one’s normal content to mindless and shameful promotion.
Although doubtful, if I was fortunate to have a pay-per-post article that showed up well in highly-searched keywords, I would be pleased.
Wouldn’t you?
Thank you for your comment!
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