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PayPerPost Receives $7M Additional Funding & Launches Direct Marketplace

By Andy Beard | Published: June 12, 2007

Just 2 weeks ago PayPerPost launched their PayPerPost Direct service and I wrote one of my typical in-depth reviews about why I believe that this new offering really changes the paid review landscape.

Posted in SEO Blog, blog monetization, blogging tips, web 2.0 | Also tagged dan_rua, DFJ, dfj_gotham, Draper_Fisher_Jurvetson, Google, Inflexion_Partners, Josh_Stein, Michael_Arrington, Microsoft, paid posts, paid reviews, payperpost, payperpost_direct, techcrunch, ted_murphy, village_ventures, yahoo | Comments closed

Exclusive – Pay Per Post Direct Changes The Paid Review Landscape

By Andy Beard | Published: May 24, 2007

Pay Per Post had first mover advantage within the paid review arena, and initially concentrated on providing a framework for the purchase of mass market buzz marketing. Competing services such as ReviewMe and Sponsored Reviews were launched, and these concentrated on one-to-one requests for professional reviews.

Dan from the Venture Capital Florida Blog, who is a managing partner of Inflexion Partners hinted to me in a quick email exchange that Pay Per Post had some very significant changes coming in the very near future, and he was certainly right.

Halfway through writing this review of PayPerPost Direct I

Posted in blog monetization, reviews, web 2.0 | Also tagged payperpost, ppp, review | Comments closed

Best Wordpress Plugins (April 2007) | Poll

By Andy Beard | Published: May 2, 2007

I have opened up the voting for the second round of my cash giveaway for Wordpress plugin authors.
Nominations for the Best Wordpress Plugin each month are made by my readers, and half my income from paid reviews is given away as donations to help support development costs of the best Wordpress plugins.

Posted in blog monetization, blogging tips, plugins, wordpress | Also tagged donations, geek, gpl, review_me, sponsored_posts, tech, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

I Bet You Missed Some of These (March 07)

By Andy Beard | Published: April 1, 2007

These are some highlights (in my opinion) of some of the content I have created over the last month. If I have missed anything out which you enjoyed or gained some value from, please let others know in the comments.

Posted in SEO Blog, plugins, reviews, web 2.0, wordpress | Also tagged aweber, blogging, blogging tips, blogs, blogsearch, can_spam, citations, digg, disclosure, dofollow, getresponse, gmail, google_blog_search, mybloglog, nofollow, plagiarism, plugins, press, product_launch_formula, reddit, reviews, smm, smo, smpt, smtp_server, sociable, social-bookmarks, social_tagging, sponsored reviews, stampede_traffic, stumbleupon, subscribe_to_comments, tag, tagging, technorati, top_commenters, traffic_strategy, twitter, ultimate tag warrior, wordpress | Comments closed

WOMMA Should Watch Who They Quote And Especially Who They Link To!

By Andy Beard | Published: March 20, 2007

I came across an interesting piece on the WOMMA blog that unfortunately falls well short of what you would expect from such an organisation.

As always I am not a lawyer, and this is just for entertainment purposes. I am sure WOMMA have some lawyers though, so they really should take a lot more care with what they state and how they state it.

Posted in Projects, blogging tips | Also tagged blogging, deep_linking, disclosure, disclosure policy, ethics, jason calacanis, jeff_jarvis, latimes, paid reviews, payperpost, ppp, reviews, terms_of_service, tos, womm, womma | Comments closed

Best Wordpress Plugins – Nominations and Results

By Andy Beard | Published: March 17, 2007

I earn money from this blog, but as I have hinted in the past, that isn't my primary goal. I write paid reviews for products that take a fair amount of time, but nothing compared to the amount of time Wordpress plugin authors spend on their creations, only to give them away for free and often still provide support.

Admittedly I have been a little lax with my donations to other authors, though I have invested money in plugin development, only to publish the plugins myself under a GPL license, thus in my own way giving to the community.

What I have

Posted in blog monetization, blogging tips, plugins, wordpress | Also tagged donations, geek, gpl, review_me, sponsored_posts, tech, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

A List Bloggers in Crystal Palaces Shouldn’t Throw Stones

By Andy Beard | Published: March 16, 2007

There are a number of fatal, hypocritical or naive flaws in almost every attack on paid posts by A list bloggers and it is time to show them their Achilles heel(s).

Posted in blogging tips, wordpress | Also tagged disclosure, disclosure policy, Matt_Mullenweg, paid posts, paid reviews, selling_links, wordpress | Comments closed

Is PayPerPost The Only Subject Nick Denton and Jason Calacanis Agree On?

By Andy Beard | Published: March 7, 2007

PayPerPost’s Ted Murphy sent an email to Valleywag asking if they would be interested in doing paid posts. As would be expected the email was posted, and drew some criticism.

Scandal

Posted in blog monetization | Also tagged disclosure, disclosure policy, disclosurepolicy, jason calacanis, nick_denton, payperpost, valleywag | Comments closed

Paid Links | Hindsight gives perspective

By Andy Beard | Published: December 29, 2006

Paid Links

It is five years, almost to the day that Yahoo started charging $299 per year for a listing in their directory as this article on Pandia clearly illustrates.

The main benefit of being in the Yahoo directory isn’t traffic, it is pagerank / trustrank. Who actually uses the Yahoo directory for anything other than listing their own sites?
It is many years since I went to Yahoo to lookup an entry for anything other than a competitor in a niche.

Posted in Google, blogging tips, marketing | Also tagged backlinks, disclosure policy, disclosurepolicy, Dynamic Linking, Ebay, epinions, Google, linking strategy, nofollow, paid reviews, payperpost, reviewme, review_me, search engine optimization, search engines, SEO Blog, shopping, traffic, yahoo, yahoo_directory | Comments closed

Disclosure Ethics and Pay Per Post

By Andy Beard | Published: December 21, 2006

I have been offline for a few days, so time to play catchup.

Techcrunch and Pay Per Post seem to have a love/hate relationship. Who will Techcrunch write about now that Pay Per Post with their requirement of disclosure can no longer be pinpointed.

Posted in marketing | Also tagged affiliate marketing, disclosure policy, disclosurepolicy, ethics, payperpost, techcrunch | Comments closed

FTC | Word of Mouth and Affiliates

By Andy Beard | Published: December 14, 2006

I was honestly so caught up in other things over the last 36 hours, I totally missed this and it is highly relevant to my Disclosure Policy Plugin.

I am not a lawyer, thus any interpretation of the situation I am going to leave in the hands of lawyers who I have a great deal of respect for, and who themselves are involved in the internet marketing field.

Posted in Projects, marketing, plugins | Also tagged affiliate, affiliate marketing, amazon, clickbank, Commission_Junction, disclosure, disclosure policy, Ebay, ftc, Google, Linkshare, techcrunch, word_of_mouth | Comments closed

Nofollow | SEO & Dynamic Linking | Disclosure

By Andy Beard | Published: December 3, 2006

Here are some more links discussing the use of NoFollow for SEO purposes.

Seo Blog has a solid overview of how each search engine treats nofollow.
I am not sure the final conclusion regarding Yahoo and treating nofollow for ranking purposes is correct. I know many people who have done well with blog comments with Yahoo search, even on blogs using nofollow. I haven’t got any recent data.

Posted in blogging tips, plugins, wordpress | Also tagged backlinks, disclosure policy, disclosurepolicy, Dynamic Linking, linking strategy, nofollow, paid reviews, payperpost, reviewme, review_me, search engine optimization, search engines, SEO Blog | Comments closed

Disclosure Policy Generator

By Andy Beard | Published: October 31, 2006

Payperpost have launched a new site DisclosurePolicy.org, which features a very simple disclosure policy generator.

They provide you with a series of example phrases which you select, and eventually generate a final Disclosure Policy.

Posted in blogging tips, mininet, web 2.0 | Also tagged disclosure policy, disclosurepolicy, payperpost | Comments closed

RAP Bank

I have just signed up for RAP Bank myself - call this a mini-review.
It seems to be one of the smartest ideas for a long time as a great way to consolidate 100s of affiliate programs under a single entity for promotion.

It is also one of the best implementations of WordPress I have ever seen.
It is not without its bugs, as this is effectively pre-launch. For example I just found a bug in the keyword based search RSS feeds (yes RSS feeds for any term will be hot), but it looks like they might be onto a winner.
Check it out - signup for the basic service is free.

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P.S. It is not immediately obvious who is running the site, but looking at my Paypal receipt (yes I signed up for Vendor Plus) I believe the site is run by Bill Ortell From Rap-Extras.com who is RAP certified and does the membership add-on that is highly popular.
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