Comments on: Pay Per Post Direct – Why Would You Do It?

By: House Signs

House Signs — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:30:19 +0000

I agree, optimiastion is the key to making money from a website.

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limo hire — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:10:08 +0000

It is not cost effective in the long run. Money would be better spent on optimisation.

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By: Sasha T.

Sasha T. — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:21:34 +0000

Well, it is always the best way to contact the person directly but some people like the comfort this service brings…

By: Andy Bailey

Andy Bailey — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:04:46 +0000

I did some ppp advertising recently with mixed results, I thought I’d try to approach bloggers directly and found 3 blogs that displayed the button, all 3 responded saying that I should use the button and pay through ppp.

I was surprised but if you think about it, would you sell something on ebay directly to someone who sends you an email? that’s a big no-no and everyone knows it!

now, if someone were to approach me via email to advertise something of theirs, I’d be a little suspicious of what they’re selling!

By: Everton

Everton — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:10:39 +0000

@Matt

I think you missed the point. It’s not about PPP bringing advertisers to you. It’s when you recruit advertisers directly – why pay a fee then?

By: Matt Keegan

Matt Keegan — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:05:43 +0000

The commission for PPP Direct is very low so I don’t mind having them do the work of bringing advertisers to me. As it stands, most of my advertisers find me through Adwords, Text Links, and PPP. Giving them a nominal commission seems fair enough to me.

By: One By One Media » Continuation of yesterday's show: more on linky love to advertisers

Thu, 31 May 2007 16:55:12 +0000

[...] Lots of great comments on this post (as I had hoped). Connected Internet poses more questions on this topic as well. One thread is why not go direct instead of [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 30 May 2007 05:46:19 +0000

I couldn’t agree with you more, EB. I recently did a post on ScottPot titled, If You Get Down With Companies Like ReviewMe, SponsoredReviews and PayPerPost, Contact Me Directly, Iâ€™ll Save You Money :) , all about taking the middle man out of the equation, benefiting both the advertisers and the site owners.

No disrespect, Andy Beard, b/c I admire your work and I read your feeds all the time but, with regards to the paypal fees- with the % that the advertisers will save by contacting the site owners directly, certainly they can cover the paypal fees. Just my opinion, not trying to be controversial.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 30 May 2007 00:00:02 +0000

Google has been limiting the ability to pass pagerank for at least 2 years but pinning them down on specific information, especially on the official Google blogs is almost impossible.

On paid reviews they might be able to eventually discount external links at the post level, but they really want people to use nofollow on paid links of every kind.

I have linked to one of my articles about it which lists lots of examples of paid links that might or might not qualify and are within that wide band of sand.

The most recent article on this on the Matt Cutts blog generated over 600 comments. (he is in charge of Webspam at Google) - just search for paid links, he will rank in first place forever I think.

By: listikal

listikal — Tue, 29 May 2007 23:42:38 +0000

Everton,

Is it rumored some time in the future that Google is going to downgrade sites selling links? Can you explain that a little better?

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 29 May 2007 23:30:49 +0000

Thanks for the mention – I should stress the review I wrote for PPP Direct wasn’t paid for, and I didn’t know anything about how they might promote it.

It isn’t a 10% cut, you get paid the advertised price, and it is 10% on top, so a 9% cut of what the advertiser pays.

They cover the Paypal fees which takes up half of it.

I am writing reviews that effectively scream at Google “This Content Should Be In The Index” and “These links are editorial” despite the consulting fee.

My future business plans do partially depend on where the land in the sand is drawn, and currently the width of that line is like the width of the beach at Camber Sands – for those that don’t know the beaches on the SE coast of England, it can take a good 10 to 20 minutes to walk down from high tide mark to low tide.

A 4-5% handling fee for PPP is insignificant if that provides a reassurance for the advertiser and an interface, escrow, some level of 3rd party mediation etc.

The percentages will be different from their future market place, but still reasonable if they can hook up some bigger names.

I am already testing out the interface with my first ordered review.