Making hay while the sun shines

Well yesterday was an odd day for posting… I slipped up firstly because I saw a few days ago that there were three new opps in PPP with $8-$10 rewards (that’s about the most I usually get offered for posts on a PR2 blog). I figured that I would select them over the next week or so – That was my mistake… I logged in the next day, and although they were potentially long-running campaigns, they had already disappeared - I guess the quota of ads had been taken by all those eager PR2 bloggers out there…
At the same time I decided to investigate PPP TOS (terms of service) – see below .. and discovered that you can actually publish three PPP opps per day (if you post other stuff in between).

I hadn’t planned to go down the multi-post route, but had visited PPP and found two NEW opps for $8 and £10, so I naturally started on the better-paid one.
I completed the post, did all the research and added in a media file only to find that when I went to ‘accept’ the offer, I got re-directed out of the PPP website. This happened at least three times, so I thought I would leave that post in ‘drafts’ and see if I could do the other one.

I completed the second post after extensive research and much creative thinking (!) and that one went through fine. I got on with the job of re-writing my ready-prepared draft of the days’ personal post, and when I had finished, I went back to PPP to see what changes had taken place (I logged a ‘ticket’ about the faulty ‘accept’ URL). I tried the same offer again and this time it worked – with no further ado, I published my already completed post, added in the widgets and had two PPP ads up and running on the same day. This left me with having to create another personal post, so I completed another post in order that there was no chance of having two PPP ads sitting next to each other.

Lessons learned:

• PPP have an ever-changing range of offers – call back often


• These offers are taken quickly – take what you can while you can


• Have several ready-made personal posts in ‘drafts’ or stored somewhere so you can ‘whip em out’ when you need to pad your ads out…

PPP update

I have been reading Payperpost terms of service and noted some interesting rules that you could easily miss:

• You may post three PPP opps per day
• You must post personal posts in between PPP posts
• You must post a personal post at least every seven days
• A personal post submitted on the same day as a PPP post does not count towards the one post every seven days

So beware! If you use the strategy I was aiming for ie. one PPP followed by one personal post, then you must ensure you continue to do personal posts but have at least one day off PPP in seven...otherwise you may be contravening the TOS. Of course you can make up for it by posting two or three opps a day...

I have added one other source of income - a UK survey company that pays a small amount for completion of online surveys. It took a while to be offered a survey, but they seem to be arriving regularly now - I will post about this at another time. Blogitive continues to reject my advances, as does Loudlanch - I will need to scout around for another source of income before the end of the month.