Pay Per Post is one of the many companies that pays bloggers to write reviews about products, companies, or other websites. In return the blogger will receive money paid via paypal at the end of each month. Each chance to write a post is called an opportunity. When the opportunity or opp becomes available it's called opp drop. In the beginning blogs were required to meet certain standards such as Google Page Rank, blog age and whether or not it had it's own domain. Legitimate blogs with years in service and a good Google PR were golden. My homepage, macewan.org, commanded between $50 and $225 per post.
During the time the earning potential was terrific. You had three paid postings you could write per day. With my site for instance I wrote $2,500 worth of postings for PayPerPost in September 2007 alone.
Around the middle November Google began penalizing blogs that participated in the program. Blogs caught writing for PayPerPost, now Izea, began having there PR dropped to zero. That's a good as being imprisoned for a blogger. In December bloggers noticed their sites being deindexed by Google and that's a blog's death sentence.
It was around this time that PayPerPost created a new company name calling itself Izea. They lowered the standards of blog worthiness and the number of blogs on the network skyrocked. From 30,000 bloggers in September 2007 to over 100,000 in January 2008. No longer did a blog need to have at least three months of content under their hat to qualify. Now you only need one month of postings.
The prices of opps dropped from an average of $33 to an average of $5 if you were lucky. Since nearly all bloggers lost their page rank they didn't even qualify for the $5 opportunities. They would go an entire month without having an opportunity.
During this time PayPerPost/Izea began promising the golden age of Argus. No need for page rank from Google instead your judged on their imaginary fairy dust principles. They created the Real Ranking system which became Izea Rank. When they announced it they claimed no more page rank! Through late November on through December. Slowly it leaked out that page rank would in truth be part of the system.
Next bloggers were told to await the Social Spark system which would not use page rank once again. December became January and then February. No Social Spark in site and money for the bloggers as they watch the number of new competition explode to over 100,000 bloggers. Izea now had 100,000 bloggers with zero page ranks between them competing for no opportunities.
All this time their websites were folded under the Izea name where they enjoyed the talented graphics designer touch. Now days Izea is rumored to be searching for a buyer while their paid bloggers are left holding the bag of worthless drained and in Google's eyes tainted blogs. No longer talking about their family or the joys of Tide detergent instead they discuss casino's or car insurance. Was it all just a shell game?
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Contributor's Note
After Izea began censoring their forums a group of bloggers formed the http://www.posties.us community to discuss the paid per blogging world at large. Izea has labeled them terrorist and refuses to all them to advertise on the PayPerPost network.
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