PayPerPost’s New Terms

by Sapphire (December 18, 2006)

PayPerPost has announced its new terms of service today.  There are two big changes you should be aware of:

1. You have to disclose on your blogs that you have paid posts.  You can do this on each paid post, or on a sitewide disclosure notice.  As far as I can tell, you’re not required to mention PPP specifically: if you use DisclosurePolicy.org to create your statement, as recommended, it will not mention any advertisers by name.  I mention this because of the possibility of Google penalizing blogs that use PPP or any other specific advertising system.  While I consider this unlikely, Matt Cutts has said that Google frowns on paid links, so I’m not going to dismiss the possibility completely.
2. Instead of six paid posts per day, you’re now allowed two.  That’s it.

While the reduction in the amount of paid posts sounds drastic, I have to say I never ever managed more than three posts per day, and that was rare.  I have to wonder about people who were able to find six opportunities that fit their blogs every day.  I’m sure a handful were writing good stuff, but my guess is the majority were churning out garbage.

Also, according to their press release, they are raising the minimum payment per post from $1 to $5. Which means that at least the two opportunities you have per day may compensate you at a higher rate.

Posted in Blogging
Subscribe to the feed or email updates