It seems like Google’s war against PPP and TLA is reaching far as more and more blogers are having their Rank zeroed and it turns to a real hysteria, but then again, what can they do and more over — you can still earn with sponsored reviews more, than with your PageRank.

Want example?

PR0 (zero) can still earn up to 5 USD per day with sponsored reviews (assuming you get one 5$ task), if it has some traffic or Alexa rank. I.e.,  150 USD profit off PR0. Will you earn this much selling links on a PR3 site? NO. So don’t worry, even if PR will stick around for some longer time, I know I have been making huge money off my blogs and it was because of traffic, not PR.

Some time ago, Google wages war against Text Link Ads, accusing them of selling links based on PR (never mind that there are also other criterias for price per links, such as Alexa, Technorati rank, Bloglines links etc). As a result many publishers lost their ranking and TLA’s marketplace slowed down.

Now, PayPerPost is appearanly next in Google blacklist. The founder of PayPerPost noticed that many bloggers who work for the biggest sponsored reviews company are losing their PageRank, only because they are offering sponsored reviews on their blog.  RealRank is comming soon to solve the lost PR’s problem, but this is still in development.

What now?

Well, nothing. Just life without PageRank (which means significantly lesser revenue) and hope that some day, someone will break Google’s monopoly and give us our PageRanks back…

Yes, as you can see, no more Adsense here and you probably want to ask why. No, thank God, we were not banned, nor this site got blacklisted, it was my own decision based on simple calculation.

I run Adsense on about 20 websites (maybe more, did not count). Total monthly earnings are making high four figures income, out of which, NowG.net’s share is only 1.5%. At best.

Since April, NowG.net gathered around 35$. During that period I refused at least 3-4 sponsored reviews, related to the casino theme (which means content non-acceptable with Google Adsense). Each review here is normally around 15$, so I lost at least 45$ in reviews, with 35$ from Adsense, means I am still at a loss of 10$, and that is, again, by the minimum calculation.

Bearing in mind that during October, which was a very good month for income for all my websites, Nowg.net earnt $5,78, and I could have taken a $ 15 casino related review (which I did not), common sense said - Adsense on nowg.net works at loss, not at profit. The picture with Adsense is totally different on other blogs, and I honestly don’t know why it fails to work in here, but this is the picture, and I decided to clean up Google’s code and offer a cleaner website to my readers.

I remember just a while ago I wrote that PayPerPost reached the 60,000 posties milestone (bloggers) and now.. 70,000 bloggers count was reached on October 12th. Is it good? For PayPerPost maybe, but from advertisers point of you, finding a direct good blogger is nearly impossible, the search takes forever and eventually you might just settle on marketplace listing and first comes first serves strategy.

Having a competition of 70k blogger is not something I consider to be convenient, sine all the campaigns are taken in real time and no assignments per blogger. I sense that by the Xmas we will have 100k posties in the PPP’s community and then some of us will really need to sharpen the elbows…

Recently more and more bloggers attack, or rather refer irreverently towards bloggers who take 5$ tasks. Oh yes, c’mon, are you really that poor to dedicate 10 minutes of your time and write a 60-words post with a link to a sponsor and get five bucks for it? Sure there are people like ShoeMoney and Darren Rowse that roll hundreds of dollars a day, but let’s face it, not everyone can.

What’s bad about 5 dollar blogging?

The stereotype is, for a review on high quality blog, with high traffic and high PageRank, you get paid a lot. If you take 5$ review:

1. You confirm your blog is worthless.
2. You undervalue yourself and your blog’s potential.

This is sweet and we can enjoy slamming those who get paid little out of free choice, but let’s see the things from another angle. In quite a few countries, 450$ would be a good salary, or — if not a good salary as itself, it could be a decent financial extra help for the whole family, right? Most loans start with 500$, and let’s not forget that you get this money and need not return them!

In order to gather 450$ in each calendar month, you need to earn 15$ a day. Finding a 15-dollar-campaign every single day is not easy,
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Basically, this is why…

Yesssss… These are real stats since the end of May when I joined, and as you can see we have quite a few sponsored posts on nowg.net, so yeah, blogging for green pays out big time peeps! Currently PayPerPost is one of my main revenue channels, together with some other networks I am using to monetize my blogs.

Over 2200$ in a bit more than 4 months (first month I was hardly active), with “only” PageRank 3 blog, located outside the USA (most opportunities are open to North America) and considering we are not even going much off topic AND considering it’s only one of about 6 networks I use, that it’s not bad at all.

The Super Starter Dear 

The current deal at PayPerPost is that if you are, as a blogger, sign up, you get your first opportunity to tell readers about PayPerPost and you will receive 20$ for this 100 words post. Not sure for long this offer will last, but it won’t hurt to hurry, after all, no one forces you to blog about anything, you choose from a big pool of opportunities what to blog about, when, for how much…

Why do I say it all?

1. I want to brag with NowG.net’s success.
2. I want you to sign up to under my referral and start earning as well (at least I am honest on that)

Happy Blogging!

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I read yesterday that PayPerPost.com crossed the 60k Blogger mark. Great, ain’t it? Well, not if you are a blogger in an open marketplace, where campaigns are not assigned to you, and you have to grab them yourself. First come. Given the fact that there are about 20k advertisers who do not all release opportunities daily, and given the fact that there are now 60,000 hungry bloggers who are allowed, with the resent rules modification, to take up to 3 opportunities per blog, and they do — given these facts, the PPP’s marketplace turns to a damn competitive arena. Alexa is a great factor in payments, so you will see all the bloggers having their widgets on the blogs (this blog is not exception, of course). And, you will see all the PPP’s bloggers with “You comment, I follow” badge (again, we are in), not because of we are so kind to give away links but because of it’s a perfect link bait. Having 60,000 competitors when it comes to 1k$ Thursday is… arrrg!