So you want to make some money while blogging about topics you actually want to blog about? Well, I’ve been explaining the specific steps that you should take to make money on the side while blogging- concentrating on telling you the things no-one tells you!
But, since I’ve written 5 posts without mentioning the obvious I’ll mention it now: after getting your blog up and running, post regularly.
But “post regularly” isn’t todays tip. 
Todays tip is: While posting “regularly”, read and analyze the typical screening rules set up by for pay to blog services. After all, your goal is to eventually permit your blog to qualify for one of these services. And even if you end up not working for these services, these rules kinda-sorta encourage some aspects of “quality” in a blog.
Now, I’ll give you a hand and collect together some of the rules and analyze them. I’m not going to list every rule or very program. I’ve reviewed rules from PayPerPost, Sponsored Reviews, Loud Launch, Smorty and PayU2Blog. I’ll some you should consider during the two to three months leading up to trying to apply to these programs.
Here are the rules and some of my advise based on these rules:
- Rules about domain name: Smorty: no blogs in subdirectories. Everyone else does.
Advice: If you are starting a new blog, I advise, don’t set it up in a subdirectory; create a subdomain- like I have at BigBucksBlogger. (If you have an established blog, you’ll need to weigh positives and negatives.)
- Issues with free domains: WordPress won’t let you run a pay-for-content blog. PayPerPost: They accept free domains, but after you join, many advertisers excluded their opportunities from free sites like blogger.
Advice: If you are starting a blog, avoid the free services. Advertisers have good reasons to avoid paying bloggers to post sponsored ads on free sites. So, income opportunities on free blogs will become more and more limited.
- Rules about regularity of posting: Smorty requires you to post at least twice a week on average. Pay per Post requires 20 posts in the past 90 days and no gaps longer than 30 days. Smorty requires posting at least twice a week on average; Blogitive requires 3 posts a week on average.
Advice: Post at least twice a week. Why not three times? Feel free to do so! However, Blogitive isn’t such a great program and depending on your niche, twice a week may be a more reasonable posting rate. Twice a week should qualify you for PayU2Blog which is a bit similar to Blogitive, but set up in a more convenient manner.
- Rules about indexing: Must be spidered by Google: All.
Advice: Google won’t index you immediately and you can’t really make then index you quickly. So, don’t count on getting paid to post for “a while”. In a future blog, I’ll suggest how you can get Google to index you sooner rather than later.
- Rules about blog age. Loud Launch: 60 days. PayPerPost, Smorty and Blogitive: 3 months. Sponsored Review: Pay U 2 Blog: 3 months.
Advice: Don’t count on getting paid to post for at least 60 days or more.
- Rules about Language: Loud Launch and Pay Per Post insist on English. Others don’t say so.
Advice: Blog in English, or check rules carefully.
- Rules about disclosure: PayPerPost, Sponsored Reviews and Loud Launch all require disclosure.
Advice: Count on disclosing.
- Rules about non-sponsored links in sponsored posts. All programs describe which links they want inside the sponsored blog posts. When you write your article, you must include those links and only those links inside the blog post- which means the entire blog post area. No pay-to-blog service I’ve found permits extra links inside sponsored posts. That includes: No Adsense javascript ads, no Kontera ads, no links to your friends blog, no links to your own articles. (If you see these appear on sponsored bloggers pages, that’s because the bloggers either don’t understand or are cheating. The blogger will be slapped down.)
Advice: Don’t insert the AdSense code into the blog template for individual posts — or learn a hack to keep these ads out of the sponsored posts. If you run Kontera, learn how to hack to get the ads out of the posts. For advice, read: Kontera for PPP Blog Hack.
- Rules about author’s age: Sponsored Reviews requires the blogger to be at least 18 years old. Pay Per Post permits younger bloggers with parental consent.
Advice: Be older than 18 or get your parents permission to blog.
- Rules about content: No porn, hate or violent content: Pay Per Post, Smorty. Others are silent about this, but if they pay through PayPal, you can be sure that porn, hate and offensive content are not permitted because PayPal won’t permit that. No duplicate content: Everyone!
Advice: No pornin’, hatin’ or violence. Don’t try to qualify by scrapping other people’s content. Don’t try to get away with cutting and pasting one blog post at a second blog you own.
- Rules about deleting posts: Pay Per Posts specifies posts and links cannot be deleted during the first 30 days. Technically, Sponsored Reviews requires individual posts kept 30 days, but you can delete them afterwards. However, if you consistently remove posts after 30 days, Sponsored Posts will cancel your account. Others services require posts and links to remain on the blog for the lifetime of the blog.
Advice: Count of keeping your paid posts up more or less forever.
- Rules limiting number of ads you can run: Pay Per Post requires a non-Pay Per post article between each Pay Per Post sponsored article and you can only take 3 posts a day. PayU2Blog will let you run paid post after paid post after paid post. Sponsored Reviews requires you to limit paid posts ads to fewer than 1 in three articles and they mean any paid posts no matter who pays. That means you can’t post a PPP article, follow it with a PayU2Blog article and then post a Sponsored Review article, and star over!
Advice: None really. Decide whether you want to post occasional sponsored ads or nearly 100% sponsored posts. It’s your blog, so it’s up to you. Bear in mind that if your dream is to blog about your hobby and develop an audience that actually wants to visit and read about the hobby then you probably won’t achieve that goal post back to back sponsored posts day after day. The same holds for political topics.
- Payment per post: Stricter services tend pay more per post but also have more complicated pay structures. So, for example Sponsored Reviews has a bargaining process. Advertisers examine your blog, its page rank and other features and you ask what the amount you want. I’ve always gotten $35 per post at this blog. Pay Per Post has a sort of selection process, and is a bit hit and miss. At my only established blog (The Knitting Fiend), I’ve gotten $60 posts and I’ve posted $15 ones. I don’t take opportunities for less. (But I would if I had a lower ranked blog.) Loud Launch has some method they use to decide how much they’ll pay a particular blogger; they’ve decided they’ll pay me $7.50 a post. I won’t take those because I can pick higher paying posts up at Pay Per Post any day. Blogitive pays $5 per post regardless of the blog’s page rank or traffic count. I’m never going to accept any of those at my fairly well ranked site but I’d take loads if I had a ‘take any and all ads blog’.
Advice: Once again none really. Just decide if you want to be a “take any and all ads blog” or something else. The decision will affect how you blog, how you organize your blog and which programs will make sense for you.
- Discretionary review: Everyone! However, some services are more strict than others. In fact, if you visit Sponsored Reviews page, you’ll see very few explicit rules; they mostly rely on the discretionary review. But take my word for it — if you don’t qualify for PayPerPost you won’t qualify for Sponsored Reviews! Generally speaking the stricter services pay more per post, though that doesn’t necessarily mean you make more money overall.
Advice: None really!
Remember: You don’t need to be acceptable to every program, in fact you can’t. The “best” blogs from a Sponsored Reviews point of view will not suite PayU2Blog in the long run. So, decide: Do you want to post ads every now and then? And include non-sponsored posts often? Or do you want to post a huge number of short, low paying ads each day? Or, do you want to do both? Remember, you can set up two blogs. I’ve got three!
Now, I’ve listed the rules I think you need to know for now. But, maybe you have specific questions. If you want to read the rules in greater detail, visit each of the following sites:
Pay U 2 Blog, Loud Launch, Pay Per Post, Sponsored Reviews Blogitive and Smorty.
Read all the rules, analyze what you think is important and then think about your goal and try to make sure your blog qualifies as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, post and start to build traffic!
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