I was writing a comment on RugJeff’s blog this morning which turned into a bit of a ramble, so I brought it over here instead. The post I was commenting on was a paid post sponsored by the PayPerPost service. That I was considering commenting on it, and that I am now linking to it, must mean that it has some real value & isn’t just a ‘junk’ post.

I still can’t make my mind up about PPP and ReviewMe etc. I’ve had some offers from ReviewMe, some I’ve taken, some I’ve not. I guess it depends on how it fits in. If I was to start posting about some of the topics available in PPP then I’m sure my readership would reduce pretty quickly.

I have another old ‘junk’ blog (or two) that has good PR that I have used for PPP and various other things though. You can make quite a tidy sum from blog posts if the PR is good and the niche is high value. If you have a PPP account you will surely have noticed that the majority of the offers are from financial services sectors.

I’m sure there must be a bunch of people picking up dropped domains or buying domains with PR & bleeding these paid posting services for all they are worth. I wonder how many checks PPP make into the background of the domain? Their requirements (from memory) are 3 months age and 20 post minimum. Setting up a blog to look like that by editing timestamps is pretty easy, you could even scrape another blog if you were so inclined. Archive.org generally wouldn’t have a history on a site 3 months old, so what other checks could be made?

Even easier would be to use an old hosted blog address. There are plenty of abandoned and deleted blogspot accounts available, never mind wordpress.com, livejournal and other smaller hosted blog providers. In the case of subdomains there is obviously no useable whois service, which makes checking the background even harder.

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