Much has been said about the new sites that are having the blogging world abuzz which are Pay Per Post and Review Me. From sites like Techcrunch and Digg where opinions have been both negative and positive. So I decided to make a completely unbiased comparison about both of them in the format presented below.
If you don’t know about either of them, well you can read on and then have a look at the sites or vice versa. The points awarded are out of 5.
| Points |  |
 |
| Money PPP - 3.5 points
RM - 4.5 points |
The money you make is set by the advertiser which can be as low as $2.50 to so far as high as $20.00. If anybody has seen any higher bid please let me know. | The price is set by their algorithm to give you your per post net worth. It’s recalculated monthly, starts at $30.00 per post and goes to around a $1000 max. 50% of any post goes to you, so a min. of $15.00. |
| Language PPP - 2.5 points
RM - 5 points |
It has to be English. So only English language blogs will be accepted | You can write in the language your blog is. Trés Bien |
| WordsPPP - 4.5 points
RM - 3.5 points |
Advertiser specified from as low as 50 to as high as 200 | Min. of 200 |
| Images / Links PPP - 3 points
RM - 4.5 points |
A link is mostly required, sometimes both link and images required with a tracking code. Too much. | Nothing of that sort mentioned so far except for a min. of 200 words. |
| Tone of post PPP - 3 points
RM - 5 points |
Advertiser specified from either neutral or positive. | It’s upto the blogger. |
| DisclosurePPP - 5
RM - 5 |
No disclosure required UPDATE: Disclosure now required. | Disclosure required as paid review or post. |
| Approval process PPP - 3 points
RM - 4 points |
Advertiser has to approve your post in order for you to get paid | Blogger has 48 hours to accept or reject the offer to review a site and then 48 hours to post a review. Once the review is accepted and then posted by the reviewer, you will be charged. |
| Amount of postsPPP - 4.5 points
RM - 3 points |
You can post 3 paid posts per day. I figure it’s fair because nobody spends more than that much time on your blog | As long as they buy you get paid. Which might not happen that often |
| Blog approval PPP - 4 points
RM - 3 points |
You have to submit your blog and a human approves you, which can be nice sometimes. | Based on Alexa, Technorati and a bunch of other stuff that is not disclosed even when you get rejected. Can be frustrating, as you have no idea in heck what went wrong! |
| Payment termsPPP - 4 points
RM - 4 points |
Either check or paypal. Direct deposit should be offered to “seasoned” bloggers. | Either check or paypal. Direct deposit should be offered to “seasoned” bloggers. |
| Behind the scenePP - 4 points
RM - 4 points |
Backed by venture capital. | Made by the Text Link Ads guys who were just acquired by Media Whiz. |
| Tags and searching PPP - 4 points
RM - 4.5 points |
Not present, only sorting of posts by type, money, tone etc.. | Complete support for tags and also sort by price and “their” ranking system. |
| Total Points | 3.75 Points | 4.16 Points |
UPDATE - I had a mistake in the previous writing where I somehow calculated them to be wrong, sorry for that debacle. The winner here seems to be ReviewMe but so far clearly it is PayPerPost that is winning the game in terms of bloggers making more money. So far I have only heard of John Chow who has gotten some review me paid posts. If you are a blogger who has gotten any reviews through reviewme please comment here.
The whole goal of the internet in one way was to make communication easier by sharing data. But as everything ever thought of and conceived, money eventually ends up becoming a factor. Otherwise everyone would have a free car provided by the government and free medical right?!
I always wondered if the bloggers that sell text and banner ads now on their blogs for hundreds and thousands of dollars would still continue blogging if all they had was PPC ads from Google or Yahoo to only resort to?
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About the author
Hyder has been blogging for the past two years on this blog. He started Weborithm, his web company, in 2007 and along with designing blogs and websites also releases various web related products.
Steph on November 14th, 2006
1
I guess if you tell people that the post is a paid one. It won’t reflect on the blogger’s personality and all as he/she is paid to do something. Kinda artificial.
However, this is just what I think
Netfreez on November 15th, 2006
2
I am currently testing both web applications, but from what I know so far PPR is leading in my book.
damir
Lee on November 17th, 2006
3
We’ve been discussing the whole per per post thing over at Quit Your Day Job and I think it’s a tough issue with a lot of people divided.
Pay for Posting - http://blog.sarge.com.au/?p=19
How it may effect new readers - http://blog.sarge.com.au/?p=22
Beth on November 20th, 2006
4
PPP is by far a better choice for smaller, lesser known blogs. Why? Because ReviewMe and others rely on advertisers to choose which blogs to advertise on- with PPP *I* have the ability to determine if an ad is appropriate. I’m not limited in my opportunities because I don’t receive 20,000 hits a day. And with ReviewMe using Technorati and Alexa to determine if a blog is worthy of acceptance- is a little shaky at best-neither service is stable, especially Technorati over the past year. As for the “PPP users are forced to write positive reviews,” issue- we aren’t. This is a misconception of the service. If an advertiser states a review MUST be positive- I simply do not take the opportunity. And, what a lot of us are finding- our blogs are gaining traffic, maybe it’s due to PPP opps, or, perhaps it’s due to the “blacklist” of bloggers, posted on a blog about a month ago. Face it- marketing is here to stay, whether we write, or insert code-there is no difference.
Ali on November 20th, 2006
5
@Beth,
I couldn’t have agreed with you more. ReviewMe gives you a value and somehow it sort of looks degrading when you’re on the last page of a certain category. (don’t think if you’re on the first means an advertiser will pay that price as well) PPP gives everybody an equal chance regardless of your “Alexa” rank or how many other sites link to you.
Melanie Phung on March 23rd, 2007
6
I just did a review of the 3 main paid blogging services too. Not with comparison charts or anything, but mine is from more of an advertiser’s perspective (it pretty much assumes that you don’t think going in that paid blogging is evil).
I’m interested in your thoughts:
http://www.all-about-content.com/2007/03/advertisers-perspective-on-blogsvertise.html