As regular readers of The Shelf may have noticed, the first sponsored post appeared on the site late last week. The post was provided by PayPerPost.com, a pay per blog service that provides bloggers with the opportunity to earn extra cash amongst there regular blogs.
Amongst regular posts, payperpost provides the opportunity to take up a selection of sponsored opportunities that provided by a network of advertisers, aimed at developing inbound links to specific products or services. The conditions of each opportunity do vary, but usually require the blogger to write a short unique post with a link to the advertiser with a focused anchor text.
Having posted regularly throughout 2007, I thought I would try to earn a little extra by writing the occasional sponsored post. I created a pay per post account as I wanted to see how easy it was to earn money on an established blog, and how the small amounts paid would add up.
Once your blog is approved it is very easy to start blogging for cash, and with PayPerPost bloggers can easily filter out opportunities that are available to, and best suited to the blogs criteria.
My thoughts were that I already blog on The Shelf daily, so if signing up for a PayPerPost account makes me blog more often, then as well as earning a bit of extra money, the additional fresh content can only help The Shelf mature as a blog.
I plan to travel to the US next year for a friend’s wedding, so I intend to let the extra funds raised sit in the account and go towards that trip. It will be interesting to see how much accumulates.
Being an account holder you can also earn extra money with their referral programme, PayPerPost direct (with advertisers approaching you), or even through sign up forms like the one featured below. This one is for bloggers, but you can also display forms for advertisers who wish to sign up too.
Try PayPerPost out if you are a keen blogger to and want to earn a little extra cash.
