PayPerPost thanks TechCrunch for helping them get 100,000 users
PPP has this weekend thanked TechCrunch for helping them reach 100,000 members.
Our good friends Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis have also done a stellar job of driving traffic and making sure the entire blogosphere knows our name. We simply couldn’t afford that type of advertising if we had to buy it. I really need to find some time to write these guys a thank you card or send a fruit basket.
Some people might not like PPP but there are clearly 100,000 bloggers who don’t have any moral objections and that is more than enough to run a business, assuming there are advertisers to match.
Personally I hate the idea of bloggers selling themselves for tiny fees. On the other hand I love the idea of being able to get a nofollow link on somewhere with lots of traffic like JohnChow.com so there will always be market for this sort of service.
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Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds SEO & Digital Agency specialising in SEO, Web Design, Development & Social Media.
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I’ve been using PPP for a couple of months now and have made a nice amount of money – certainly more than Adsense brings in. I think a lot of people have a bad impression about PPP, I certainly haven’t lost editorial control or morals over my site.
My site was recently hit by Googles hate of PPP and I went from a PR 5 to a PR 3 – most of the rest of my site also lost its PR. I think its a real shame Google have played editorial god over a blogs content and I have lost a little respect for google over the matter.
I’ve hardly been PPPing lately. In fact, I’ve only written less than 50 posts for it. I use another sponsored blog service like PPP but unlike PPP, I can just “coincidentally” include the link which is way way better. But still, Google Hate attacked me and brought my PR from 3 to 0 which is kind of disgusting.