I recently created two accounts at PayPerPost.com. One as an advertiser and an other as a blogger. I wanted to try out blogging for cash so I added this blog on thier site as my blog that I wanted to use for blogging about stuff listed on PayPerPost.com. However, my blog was not approved due to the fact that it did not meet their requirement of having 20 post in the last 90 day. It is true that I do not blog very frequently, but is frequency of posts a good measure of the quality of a blog?
I’ll admit that even in my own eyes this blog isn’t that valuable. It only has a PageRank of 3, gets less than 100 unique visitors a day, and has a very small readership. However, I thought that it had least enough value to merit being paid by an advertiser in PayPerPost.com’s network. I am sure there are a lot of blogs in their network that may have very frequent posts but no PageRank and little traffic.
I am not that disappointed though, I was planning on using PayPerPost.com mostly as an advertiser. However, I am going to withhold linking to their site from their site from this post as form of protest for them rejecting my blog. So, if you want to visit their site you’ll just have to copy and paste.
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I do agree with PayPerPost requirement of having at least 20 posts during the last 90 day period for qualification of “active blogger”. Even though you are absolutely right, frequency of posts do not correspond to quality, blogging is a slightly different format of online publishing. If a newspaper does not fulfill “at least 6 publications during tha last 7 calendar days”, it couldn’t be called a “daily newspaper”. If some arbitrary frequency is not fulfilled by a newspaper, it’s dropped to “printed newsletter” category. The same goes for blogging. Our world is changing every day, different things are happening in all steps of life. If someone is not following the news and do not blog frequently, this blog could only be considered as “infrequent review”.
On another hand, your requirement of PR5 or higher for your PayPerPost assignment is completely unrealistic. PayPerPost is a new network, only two and a half months old, they don’t have millions of users, hardly several thousand bloggers belong to PayPerPost. And blogs with PR5 or higher are pretty rare. And those few bloggers with such a high pagerank have a lot more profitable opportunities to monetize on their blogs than writing 200-word review for 10 dollars.
I believe there is still value in having a blogger with an “infrequent review” blog, blog about your product or service. What matters the most is how many people will actually see what they said. It is true that an “active blogger” will attract a larger readership than if they were less active because readers will return to the blog more often expecting fresh content, but that doesn’t mean that they will attract more readers than any other blogger that posts infrequently. I have a very good friend who only posts about once a month, but still receives a steady flow of traffic daily. Whenever he does post that traffic skyrockets. I know this for a fact because I asked him if I could add some tracking code to his blog to track his visitors. He also recieves several comments on each post. He may not speak often, but when he speaks people listen and that is the type of blogger I would want to blog about what I would like poeple to know about, regarless of how often they post.
As for my PR5 requirment, I was actually very suprised that I got the response that I did. I was worried that I wouldn’t get very many posts because I set the standard too high. I don’t believe that a PR5 blog is as rare as you make it out to be. Last summer I started a political blog at http://www.libertymarch.com/ with a friend of mine. We were able to obtain a PR5 within two months with very little effort(It has since fallen to a PR4). I have also obtained a PageRank of 5 for several other of my websites, which I felt I did with relative ease. A PR5 really isn’t that hard to obtain.
Any consolation - whenever I like I’m losing touch with on-line services and technology, I check your blog to see what else is out there that I’m not aware of. I’d rather of less frequent well thought out posts than daily rambling.
a high pagerank doesn’t mean that the site is good too…
True. I wouldn’t use PageRank as the only factor considering a blogs worth, but it is still something I would consider as it represents the strength of link popularity which is a big factor in search engine rankings which can translate into more traffic. All else being equal I would say a blog with a higher PageRank is worth more, but there are still several other factors that can be considered.
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