New PayPerPost opportunity

I haven't visited the PayPerPost website for a week or so. So many things going on with the delivery date for our project at work approaching, then passing, and still working on the project. So needless today we missed our delivery, now it is just a race to get the darned thing out the door - but that is niether here nor there.

Anyway, I hit the PPP website yesterday evening because I had some time and thought I'd try and put up an ad or two. Plus, this site finally hit the 90 day mark and has the proper amount of posts, properly spread out, so I submitted this site to PPP to allow me to put ads on this blog as well as my other blog at http://myownhometown.blogspot.com - which is mostly stuff about my family life, but might be interesting to some, so please, stop on by and take a look.

While I was there I noticed some sweet changes to their site. For starters, they give one the ability to view only opportunities their blogs are qualified for. That really reduces the time it takes one to sort through the opportunies that they qualify for (i.e. certain pageranks, etc).

At any rate, something else they now have is a "Review My Post" opportunity. It sounds very simple. You place a graphic link at the bottom of your post (see the bottom of this post for an example). Someone reads your post, they click the link. If they are not a 'postie' (as PPP calls us) they can sign up for PPP. A new opportunity is created just for them to review your post on their blog. The opportunity pays $7.50. Once they are paid their$7.50 (presumeably after the 30 day mark), you get paid $7.50. I am not certain if there are any limits to this. It seems to me that two or three bloggers could get together and just spend time reviewing each other's posts and rake in some coinage, but that remains to be seen.

As a side note, this could actually increase traffic to your site, and thereby increase your page rank.

BlogCharm Update

I received another email (two actually) from the folks over at BlogCharm. The first was really a newsletter, and the second was actually a comment to the other BlogCharm post I made a few days ago. It seems that BlogCharm is a Canadian company (who knew?) and some changes to the US tax law has caused the temporary halt on payments until the bloggers provide some tax information to good ol' Uncle Sam can get his fair cut of our earnings. Here is the newsletter in full:

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BlogCharm Newsletter
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In this newsletter:

1. Update on Earnings
2. Service Upgrades
3. Cheaters Beware


1. Update on Earnings
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Recently, some BlogCharm members made us aware that the system was calculating earnings incorrectly. We have corrected this problem and recalculated everyone's earnings.As a result, some of you may see a increase or decrease in your total earnings.

If you have requested a pay-out, and your total earnings does decrease, your pay-out amount will stay the same.

As mentioned in the last newsletter, we are revising the pay-out process to comply with United States law. One thing is clear so far: in order to make payments we will first need to either a) collect data for tax purposes or b) require members to fill out a tax form. I know this sounds like a nightmare for your perspective - but it looks like we'll be able to create online versions of the forms to make your lives as easy as possible. I hope to have this situation completely resolved before March 15th, 2007. If there are new development, I will send another newsletter.


2. Service Upgrades
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You may have noticed that your blogs are loading MUCH faster than before. Well, I was poking around and noticed that there were over 500,000 trackbacks in the system (that's the total of trackbacks from all blogs) and that most of them were SPAM (a.k.a. spings). So, after running some numbers and pulling some strings, I deleted over 95% of them. This action alone has resulted in a 2000% server speed increase!

And, while I was poking around, I checked out the disk space on the server and saw that we had plenty of it...so I decided to increase each user's disk-space from 10MB ro 25MB.

Enjoy!!!


3. Cheaters Beware
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I've noticed an increase lately in the number of members who try and cheat the BlogCharm system. I just want to take this opportunity to make this very clear:

1. We have countless methods for detecting cheaters. It's REALLY easy to catch them.
2. Cheaters are a threat to legitimate members. They want to steal your money!
3. Members who cheat are deleted without warning. Period. No exceptions. No take-backs.

I've got several accounts scheduled for deletion, a few under review, and a few more under a watchful eye.

If you're thinking about cheating...you might as well stop now.

I know there is more in the newsletter than just about the pay outs, but I didn't want anyone accusing me of editing anything. And for the record, I can't believe anyone would try to cheat the system. Seriously, it isn't like one is going to get rich doing this stuff. Sheesh.

Hey, thanks for stopping by, and don't be afraid to drop a comment every once in a while just to say 'hey'.

I Did It!

This blog has been up for the required 90 days. And it has the required amount of posts, so I am going to submit it to PayPerPost to be available to post advertisements on here. As in my other post, the only tag any adverts will have is "Adverts", so they will be easily recognizable. In addition, preceding each post will be "***ADVERTISEMENT*** at the top of the post.

Soon, I will create a disclosure page so everyone can see what terms for paid posts are.

Once again, all adverts will be clearly marked, and in their own little label/tag/category whatever you want to call it.

Oh, yeah, if you happen to click that PayPerPost graphic on the left and sign up, please don't forget to put my email as a referrer (gets me five clams) - bigsibling2k5 at gmail dot com (of course, turn that into a real email address...gotta keep those pesky spammers on their toes!).

As always, thanks for visiting.

No, really, I super appreciate it. And don't be afraid to drop a comment here or there just to say 'hey'.