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As I’m sure my regular readers know, I have a love hate relationship with PayPerPost. I’ve been working with PayPerPost since about November 2006 so I have a fairly lengthy history to draw from when forming my opinion. Overall I’d have to say that I definitely don’t love PayPerPost at all. Even if I hadn’t had the many negative experiences I have had with them, I still don’t think I could say that I love them. Appreciate, even enjoy working with them maybe, but not love.
There is one major component that I love though. Money.
That’s the one area where PayPerPost has been a huge success and it’s the one thing that keeps me working with them despite my unpleasant experiences. Nobody can help you make money blogging with a small to medium blog like PayPerPost. Since November 2006, I’ve earned enough to buy myself a really nice queen sized bed and still have enough left over for the bucket of expensive robot parts that I’m going to need over the next while.
What does that translate into in terms of real money? I won’t bother posting my exact amount since that really won’t help you much that a small blog with its own domain and even a smidgen of PR can generate $200 each month without too much trouble. If you want to work hard at it, you can pull in $300-$400 a month. Improve your Alexa rankings and PR and that number can go up significantly.
So how can I possibly be upset with a company that’s giving me money that lets me do the fun things that I enjoy like robots? Well their payout hasn’t been 100% for me. My PayPerPost experiences have lead to a 97% payout rate. I know that doesn’t sound that bad, but the reality of it is that every now and then, you’ll write up a really good post try to finalize your submission and it will fail due to software problems at their end. They will tell you to contact customer service in these cases, but the response from them is that they’re really sorry that it happened and will guarantee you that it won’t happen again, that is until it happens again. All the while, they’re unwilling to compensate bloggers for their mistakes. To me, making customers eat the cost of your mistakes may be a good short term idea, but over the long term, you create people like myself who will be honest with their readers about what PPP is doing. This tends to further their already bad image.
They have also had problems where they decided to “re-interpret” their terms of service by re-defining a word in the English language and to top it all off, they did it without notice to the community.
The icing on the cake? Ted Murphy himself publicly slagging my blog on the PayPerPost blog. He didn’t link to my blog in it, but cited a very specific reference that was unique to my blog. Therefore anyone Googling that reference would have found out who he was talking about very quickly.
So despite the fact that I absolutely love PayPerPost’s ability to help me generate revenue, they’ve burned me pretty hard by not paying me, having their CEO unjustly slagging me publicly and by changing the rules to the game without letting anyone know. My end analysis is that it’s a good program implemented by a bad company.
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