Ted Murphy and IZEA Still Love Google PageRank
Posted on August 11, 2008 - Filed Under Blogging, Paid To Write | 2 Comments
Ted Murphy, founder and CEO of IZEA (parent company of paid blogging companies PayPerPost and SocialSpark) despises Google PageRank so much that his company created a competing website metric system called RealRank. But I’ll allow him to speak for himself…
From a PayPerPost Community Blog post dated November 17, 2007-
Once again Google has proved that PR has little to do with blog traffic, influence or relevance and everything to defending their monopolistic stranglehold on search and online advertising.
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What does this mean for…
One Month In To SocialSpark
Posted on May 15, 2008 - Filed Under Blogging, Paid To Write | Leave a Comment
Sunday will mark one full month that SocialSpark has been in public Beta, last Thursday marked the one month point from when I joined, and Tuesday was exactly one month since I took my first Sponsored Post there. I would have picked one of those specific dates to write this post, but the PayPerPost opp offering to pay me $9.00 to give my thoughts kept disappearing before I could grab it. Until today. And y’all know I can never pass up…
IZEA Needs To Improve Internal Communication
Posted on April 28, 2008 - Filed Under Blogging, Paid To Write | 2 Comments
Setting aside, for the moment, the fact that more than five months after its release, IzeaRanks.com is still missing a significant number of both site visitors and page views, the IZEA development team really needs to take a closer look at how their various platforms (IZEARanks, Social Spark, and PayPerPost) communicate with each other. I’ve seen other blog posts and threads on IZEA’s own forums about other people’s situations, but I’ll leave them to tell their own tales. Instead I’ll…
Is NetAudioAds / PayPerPlay Ads A Scam?
Posted on February 12, 2008 - Filed Under Earning Online | 5 Comments
By definition, yes, PayPerPlay is a scam-
American Heritage Dictionary
scam
n. A fraudulent business scheme; a swindle.
On their website for publishers (GetAudioAds.com) they promise that “Publishers (website owners) will earn revenue on 100% of their traffic…“. This is simply not true. Many publishers are reporting tens of thousands of hits without a single penny earned. Personally, I’ve only earned on less than .001% of my traffic. Their “official” blog (I’ll get to why official is in quotes shortly) actually came out yesterday and admitted that…
Latest News On NetAudioAds
Posted on February 4, 2008 - Filed Under Earning Online | 2 Comments
Last week I introduced y’all to Pay Per Play advertising from Net Audio Ads and told y’all that they would start playing ads on Friday, February 1st. Well, it’s now February 4th and my sites have yet to serve a single ad. Apparently they’re doing a “slow rollout” of the ads only serving them to some websites immediately and then slowly adding more sites over the next 30-60 days. There’s no word on what system is being used to determine who…
Are Audio Ads The Way To Monetize Your Website?
Posted on January 30, 2008 - Filed Under Earning Online, Webmastering | Leave a Comment
I first heard about Net Audio Ads a few weeks back when they began seeking bloggers to advertise their Pay Per Play ads via the other PPP: PayPerPost. This created quite a bit of controversy due to the nature of the ads. Don’t get me wrong, the ads themselves aren’t objectionable in any way. In fact, they’re fairly innovative. Instead of displaying an advertising banner or a list of text links to be clicked upon by site visitors a short 5…
