When I first started out with PayPerPost, I thought that it was one of the greatest ways for a relatively small blog to make money online. After all, they had very low entrance requirements and there were an abundance of opportunities. You could write about UK credit cards if that’s what tickled your fancy, or you could jump into the octagon and participate in mixed martial arts. And because it was up to you, the blogger, to pick and choose what you wanted to write about, income potential was virtually limitless. Contrast this to services like ReviewMe where you have to wait for the advertiser to come to you.
I don’t plan on leaving PayPerPost any time soon, but this latest email made me just a little peeved. Flash back to earlier this week when I got an email saying that I couldn’t run Kontera ContentLink ads on paid posts. I understood the logic behind that, because the ads that “pop up” would obscure the content and thereby make it more difficult for readers to click on the links leading to the paid advertiser’s site. I was unhappy that I had to remove Kontera from PPP posts, but I understood the reasoning.
Well, the email that I received this morning took the Nazi-ism one step further. Now they’re telling me that I can’t run Google Adsense on paid posts, because there shouldn’t be any “other” ads within the post that the sponsor paid for. Here is the email in its entirety:
REFERENCE NUMBER: LTK9108046084X Please use this ticket number in any correspondence with us.
SUBJECT: Re: Your Post Has Been Rejected.Hello Michael,
Thank you for contacting us. You are allowed to run Google Adsense ads on the page, but they cannot appear within the post itself. The reason for this is that the advertisers are paying for that post, so there shouldn’t be other ads within that space that the advertiser has paid for. I’m sorry about any confusion this may have caused. If you have any other questions, please submit a ticket to www.payperpost.com/support .
Thank You!
PPP========== Original Message ==========
From: Michael Kwan <>
Subject: Re: Your Post Has Been Rejected.So, I’m not allowed to run Google Adsense on these posts? When did this change occur?
On 4/19/07, support@payperpost.com
wrote:
> Dear Michael Kwan,
>
> This is a notification to let you know that your post, Blogger’s Choice Awards , at url https://btr.michaelkwan.com/2007/04/14/bloggers-choice-awards.aspx, has been rejected for the following reason(s):
>
> ——————————
> Thank you for your post!
>
> While your post is great, ToS states that ads must not obstruct the view of the post, which means that ads must not come after the post title or before the post ends. Please revise the elements so that they appear before or after the post, so that viewers do not mistake the links of the ads for links of the post.
>
> Thank you!
> Cyn
> ——————————
>
> Please log into PayPerPost.com (https://payperpost.com/login) to either correct this issue and resubmit the post or to delete the post.
> If this post is not corrected within 3 days, it will be deleted.
>
> Thank you,
>
> The PayPerPost Team
The strange thing is that my post about the Blogger’s Choice Awards is the only one that has ever encountered any trouble. All other paid posts have been approved without a hitch, even if they contained Adsense and Kontera. It seems that other sponsors are more interested in the backlinks than anything else, whereas posts sponsored by PayPerPost itself… well, they’re a little more stringent.
I can just see Ed Lau coming in here now to remind me that “this is why PPP sucks.” Sigh. I guess I’ll just have to avoid opps sponsored by PPP itself.
This is Ed Lau reminding you that PPP sucks.
Well, I know I don’t have to worry about this problem! I think you’re right about the PPP vs others strictness. PPP knows the game and how to play it while most of the advertisers on PPP are small-time players looking for bit more traffic and exposure.
So the question becomes – What pays more, the PPP payment or the Adsense clicks?
Definately PPP.
If you look at the advertiser’s point of view, the reason is quite valid.
Imagine if the pay you a price to have them advertised on your site, I am sure I would not like it if you have adsense AND my competitor’s ads on it.
Cheers.
I have to agree with Kumiko’s question: What pays more ?
I have to say PPP.
I started Google Adsense in December 2006. To date, I have only made $30.00.
As for PPP, I started in April 2006. I have made $45.00..and I still have more than 8 posts waiting to be approaved. The total will be more than $95.00. One month ,man. Imagine I keep on writing..hehe..
I am soory that I have to make more money writing PPP..as you can see on my blog…A Language Tutor loaded with more than $60,000 debts !!… 😉
I have to agree with Melvin here. The advertiser has a valid point.
If i pay for posts via PPP then i dont want them filled with advertisements etc.
this blog has adsense at the beginning of every post to the right. i dont think any advertiser would have a problem with that since its part of the design and outside the post.
However, i noticed your martial arts post had adsense in it and can understand why an advertiser would object.
🙂
Well, the solution is, if you are using WP, you can try http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags. If you are on Movable You can try MTIfCategory http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/docs/3.3/a_template_tag_reference/category/mtifcategory.html. I have a tutorial on my site, for MTIfCategory. =)
Doesn’t seem like that big a deal to me. For most smaller blogs they would probably make more money from Pay Per Post in a specific post than they would from adsense anway.
I think it all works out in the end and seems pretty reasonable.
Hope this helps you guys:
http://webdev.kevinlloyd.net/php/how-to-make-payperpost-and-google-adsense-play-nice-mightyadsense-plugin-hack.htm
With this hack you can have your Adsense automatically inserted into all of your posts, using MightyAdsense, except those from PayPerPost.