Gregg H. Hawkins

I’ve mentioned on my blog a few times that I have ventured into affiliate marketing, mainly Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Advertising . It seems to be the big thing as of lately. I began to research the topic mid/late last year and was fortunate to meet Wes Mahler. Wes was kind enough to introduce a group of about 40 us to affiliate marketing and show us how to get campaigns started from start to finish. I definitely did not learn everything I know about affiliate marketing from Wes as a lot of it came from reading forums, other websites and blogs, and testing out tactics on my own. Don’t get me wrong though because Wes and I can’t forget to mention Steven Truong, have taught me a lot and have also been great helpers and go to people for any questions I have had.

Time to Give Back
Wes was a great inspiration to me. I realized that the time he put into helping beginner affiliate marketers was more valuable than him actually making the thousands of dollars he actually makes through affiliate marketing and other projects. By creating the Affiliate Mastermind Group he was able to create a great network of like minds (affiliate marketers and entrepreneurs) who all had the same goal in mind - to become successful. The Affiliate Mastermind Group doesn’t exist anymore due to some unfortunate events, however most of us still do keep in contact via email and AOL/AIM. The Affiliate Mastermind Group was a great concept and way to network with other people. There were some big names in the group including Jon Waraas. Don’t get me wrong though, most of us will become the big names in the near future!

What I’ve decide to do is to create my own blog (www.ThePreneur.com) and forum (www.PreneurTalk.com) to create the same environment Wes created for us. I want to help beginning affiliate marketers get on their feet just like Wes helped us. I want to create a blog that people access for information and gain inspiration from. I want to create a community of affiliate marketers and entrepreneurs where everyone can ask questions and help each other out. There are no stupid questions.

Contacting Me
If you’re a beginner at affiliate marketing and/or interested in learning about it please contact me! If you contact me, please do so through the contact form on The Preneur. If you have friends or know of anyone else who wants to get into affiliate marketing please have them contact me as well. Hopefully I can get a group of about 5-10 interested people to start off and begin teaching the basics to. If you would like to find out more information please visit The Preneur blog and consider registering at the forum to collaborate with others just like you. This group will only become what we make of it so let’s make the most of it!

I don’t have any plans in the near future to keep GreggHawkins.com alive. However, I’ll leave it up for now, there just won’t be any updates to it. In the future I may turn it into a portfolio website for my photography ( that is when I get my SLR camera). My time and efforts will be put into my new blog www.ThePreneur.com and forum www.PreneurTalk.com. For those of you who are interested in affiliate marketing don’t be discouraged. Take action now! Affiliate marketing is a fast growing industry and there’s still a lot of money to be made. Affiliate marketing takes a lot of hard work, time, motivation, and dedication on your end. If you’re willing to put in those things you will become successful.

Blog: www.ThePreneur.com
Forum: www.PreneurTalk.com

This post is well over due; however I would like to share this information with you! My brother made a post on his blog a while back about receiving our very first Google Adsense check, but I don’t think many of you read his blog. Here is an overview of our earnings for our Newport Harbor Fans website for the first month and a half (end of September and all through October). The picture below show’s our first Google Adsense check, it’s not $1,324.07 because some of the money we earned carried over.

Earnings Overview
Google Adsense: $1,324.07
Kontera: $126
Neverblueads: $18
iTunes: $243.53
Total: $1711.60

We made a total of $1,711.60 dollars in a little over a month’s time period. It’s kind of crazy how one simple idea can lead to making a couple thousand within a few months. I hope this can motivate some of you who have ideas to take and put them into action. You have nothing to lose but everything to gain.

The earnings for the site have decreased quite a bit, however it’s earning us well over what it costs to pay for our web hosting plan. There’s really no point in taking the site down either because a second season is already in the making.

Website Statistics
Since October we’ve averaged over 10,000 unique visits and 250,000 pageviews per month. What’s so great about those statistics? My brother and I put in the hard work for the first few weeks we had the site up. Now, we hardly do anything with the website and people keep coming back. It’s also because re-runs of the show and special episodes are being aired on television. We’ve also managed to rank #3 in Google for the term “Newport Harbor” and we still hold many top spots for other keywords and phrases related to the show.

Future Plans and Ideas
Before our Christmas break ends, my brother and I plan on redoing the WordPress design so hopefully we can sell the whole website it in the near future. Why would we try to do this when it’s brining in a good cash flow? Because we can’t be sure how many seasons of Newport Harbor will air. If there’s a willing buyer who offers us something for the website, it’ll probably be the best offer we’ll get.

What This Has Proved
If you’re discouraged of pursuing something you wish to do, especially online, my brother and I have just proved that knowing very little about coding and anything related to websites doesn’t matter. We don’t know how to code websites and we don’t know how to do a lot of things related to making websites. Who cares if you have to use WordPress. WordPress works like a charm. Make the most of what you have and you will be successful in pursuing any of your endeavors as long as you put 100% of your effort into them.

Merry Christmas!

I should probably get back to researching, but I thought that I would take the time to write this post because to me it means a lot. Let’s get rolling…

Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing seems to be the big boom around the blogsphere lately. It’s nothing new, but it sure takes a lot of time, hard work, and dedication. The people who want it most will profit and the people who don’t will fail. I’ve put in quite a few hours researching and testing unsuccessful campaigns since the start of my Christmas break. However, I don’t plan on quitting anytime soon. When you’re ready to quit, you’re closer than you think.

“The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.”

I wanted to take the time to write this post to remind myself as well as others the importance for setting and defining your goals. I was talking to a friend that I met online the other day, Wes Mahler. He is an entrepreneur, affiliate marketer, and a damn good friend and affiliate marketing teacher. He also pointed out to me that if you want to make something happen that you can’t want it, but will it. I messaged him on AOL and told him that “I want to make $50 a day through affiliate marketing by the end of my Christmas break.” He replied by saying something along the lines “You can’t want something or it won’t happen.” Just remember, nothing is impossible. That’s the simplified version.

Wanting something is saying that it may or may not happen. I might end up accomplishing my goal or I may not. Why be content with that? I sure as hell don’t want to be content with that. I will make things happen. Instead, Wes told me to say that “I will make $50 dollars a day by the end of Christmas break.” If Wes can reach his goal $10,000 a month, he’s already on track to accomplish that goal way before his time frame, anyone can do it. And so I did and my journey begins. I have yet to see a profit, but I know I will see a profit by the end of my break in 3 more weeks. Even if I don’t make the $50 a day mark, it won’t put me down. As long as I can say that I put in all of my effort and have no regrets looking back. To me that’s success. Leaving everything on the table for a goal I desire. It’s kind of like sports and we’ve all heard the saying, “Play every game like it’s your last.”

What I’ve Been Up To
I haven’t been around the blogsphere as of lately and there’s many reasons. These last few weeks have been very hectic studying for finals and what not. My grades weren’t that great so I spent most of my last 2-3 weeks going to my professor’s office hours and studying at the library – all day. It paid off; I’m not on academic probation! Also, as I’ve stated before in previous posts I need to make money in order to pay the bills. Blogging, in all honesty is fun and I enjoy it, but in terms of making money with a blog it is near impossible. There’s only a few diamonds in the rough. I began to pursue affiliate marketing about a month ago and have just really got into it. Let me tell you, there’s a lot of stuff you’ll need to know if you want to head this field. It’s very competitive and you can’t be afraid to take risks and lose money. To make money you have go to spend money. Period. Anyways, I just wanted to get my mind off of researching and working for a little bit. Hope you guys enjoyed.

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”

Flickr Image - mumbleyjoe

7,556 total visits, 5,694 unique visitors, and 61,096 pageviews. No, these aren’t the monthly stats for my blog as I went over those in my earnings for August post. These are the stats for the Newport Harbor fansite my brother and I created. Those numbers were generated in 16 days of the fansite’s life. We also generated a fair amount of money in those 16 days with Google Adsense. By taking these numbers and doubling them, is what we expect the statistics to be for September.

The Traffic Statistics

• 7,556 Total Visits
• 5,694 Unique Visitors
• 61,096 Pageviews

As I mentioned earlier in the post, those are the traffic statistics for the first 16 days of the fansite ending the month of August. Visitors spent an average of 6 minutes and 57 seconds on the site generating an average of 8.09 pageviews per visit. So how did these visitors reach the site? Direct traffic accounted for 9.05% of the traffic, referring sites accounted for 7.90% of the traffic, and search engines sent us 82.60% of the traffic.

Total Revenue
We’re still tweaking the ads and testing out different revenue sources for the site. However, for the first 16 days we generated $91.54 in Google Adsense alone. We implemented Kontera the last week of August, which only generated $2.19.

By getting accepted into other PPC and CPC programs we hope to double if not triple our total earnings for September. We tried out AuctionAds for a little while, but those weren’t performing at all. We’ve also applied to AzoogleAds, Vizu (create polls), and a few others. Our main goal is to generate enough traffic in September so that we can get accepted into TribalFusion’s network. Hopefully we’ll be able to do it!

Overview of August
I made a post about generating a passive income the other day. I think it relates to this fansite very well because all of the hard work is done (to some extent). The hardest part of the fansite was getting it up and functioning within the first 2 days. After getting all of the content and whatnot for the site, we only spend about an hour a day updating it. Generating $5-$10 dollars a day by doing basically nothing adds up at the end of the month. Though, we know it will take much more hard work to double that amount earned per day and that it is possible if we try hard enough.

The first few days were an absolute scramble to gather all of the information we wanted to include, cast member biographies, and photos. It was also hectic finding the perfect WordPress theme and finding all of the perfect WordPress plugins for the website. Looking back and viewing the first 16 days of statistics makes me smile because it’s truly a success.

August has been an exciting month for me in many aspects. I’ve improved from my July earnings in some areas of my blog while other areas still need attention. My brother and I started a fansite and have been quite successful so far, I broke the $200 earnings mark for PayPerPost, and I reached my goal of making $10 in Google Adsense. I believe that August started off as a good month with great activity within my blog, but as the month progressed I noticed community participation decline. I’m not quite sure whether people weren’t interested in my posts or because I wasn’t as active in other communities. Other than that traffic was mediocre in my mind and could use some improvement.

Earnings for August (2007)
August marks the second month I’ve had Google Adsense integrated within my blog. August was also the first month that I implemented affiliate links and banners from Text-Link-Ads and Aaron Wall’s SEO Book, which I hardly generated any money from. I’m thinking about removing those banners from the blog, but I’m not quite sure yet. For August I earned a total of $279.21 dollars from blogging. Other than that here’s how my earnings for August broke down:

• PayPerPost: $215.45
• Reviews: $25.00
• Affiliate Referrals: $25.00
• Google Adsense: $10.08
• Text-Link-Ads: $3.68

Recap of the PayPerPost Reviews

• Get Business Cards with VistaPrint
• Roman Greenberg to Fight Damon Reed
• Turning Donations Into Salvations
• Rob Zombie’s Halloween Movie
• Just Thoofing Around
• Kindergarten Through 12^th Grade Homeschool
• Taking Out a Loan
• Utilize Technology From Your Mobile Phone
• Picture to Painting
• The Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk
• Eye of the Dolphin (2007)
• Student Loans - Direct Plus Loan
• Communicate Quicker, Clearer, Faster
• Free Encrypted Online Backup

Blog Traffic for August (2007)
As I mentioned earlier, blog traffic for August was mediocre in my opinion. I was Stumbled a few times and made the front page of Thoof however, I wasn’t able to capitalize on the incoming traffic at that time. Even though I received slightly more unique visitors that July, I didn’t generate more pageviews.

For the month of August I received 3,139 pageviews from 1,891 unique visitors and a total of 2,201 total visits to my blog. This was a decrease of 212 pageviews and an increase of 347 unique visitors. The average time a visitor spent on my blog was 4 minutes and 7 seconds generating an average of 1.43 pages each visit. For the month of August referring sites accounted for 45.71% of my traffic, direct traffic accounted for 23.40% of my traffic, and search engines accounted for 30.08% of my traffic. For September I hope to keep visitors at my blog longer, therefore, creating a longer average time per visit and hopefully more pageviews per visit

Expectations for September (2007)
For September I’ll have to set the goals a little higher than before. I’ll make it a goal to generate at least $20 dollars with Google Adsense. I think that $20 dollars is a reasonable amount, but will be a challenge to reach. I also want to break the 2,000 unique visitor mark for the first time. Lastly, I want to make it a goal to stay more active in my fellow blogger’s communities. For the first half of this month I was doing fine, but as the month progressed I became worn out and was distracted with other things. I will need to keep my mind and stay focus on the tasks at hand.

Top Commentators for August (2007)
I’d like to thank the top commentators for the month of August! I appreciate your participation with my blog and hopefully I’ll be seeing you guys and gals around more often! Without you I wouldn’t be where I am today, nor would my experience online as a blogger be as great. Thank you for reading my blog, your friendship, and participation.

1. Shaun Low
2. Glen Allsopp
3. Shane
4. Ms. Q
5. Eric Karey
6. Susan Suarez
7. Steven Fergus
8. ForumeR

This wraps up the monthly report for July (2007). If you want to provide any feedback, make suggestions, or have any questions feel free to do so through the contact form or in the comments. Thanks for dropping by!

I’ve been teasing you guys with posts about 150+ uniques and 850+ pageviews the first day our website was up than another post about 220+ uniques and 1,300+ pageviews the second day our website was up. With 80% - 90% of that traffic coming from Google’s search engine, Google has been a main player in the success of our website. However, with the lack of knowledge on how to properly monetize a website, we’ve only made $9.05 in the last 4 days. I’m guessing that if we were Tyler Cruz, Nate WhiteHill, or Zac Johnson, whom I consider true professionals at making money online, my brother and I would have probably done a lot better in the revenue department. Do you think you could have done better?

The Lucrative Hobby Revealed
Is the suspense killing you? Well, here it is. By now, you’re probably jumping up and down in your seat eager to find out what my brother and I have been keeping secret these last 4 days. I’ll be honest, it’s nothing special and there’s no special way to do this kind of thing; we just thought of it at the right time and were also lucky.

What we did was create a fan site for MTV’s reality show Newport Harbor The Real OC. We were fortunate enough and also amazed that the domain (www.newportharborfans.com) was still available for purchase. This is the first season of Newport Harbor, but it is considered the fourth season because it replaced Laguna Beach.

How did luck play a role? We quickly did our research and found that there were no other serious fan sites on the market. There are a few other fan sites and forums dedicated to Laguna Beach, The Hills, and Newport Harbor, but there were no fan sites solely dedicated to Newport Harbor. We wanted to get a WordPress theme up and running as quickly as possible and get listed in Google so we could hopefully rank in the top 10 for a lot of popular search terms. If you read the first post you know that it paid of pretty well.

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Setbacks of About Our Fan Site
My brother and I didn’t want to use a WordPress theme, but we had no other choice. We don’t know how to code html, php, or use css to create a website. We believe that this will provide us great experience running a fan site such as this for future endeavors. We also believe that if we professionals and knew exactly what we were doing and how to monetize a website, that our revenue would have been much greater. Even if we don’t make a lot of money and our fan site fails miserably, it’s better to have tried than not have tried at all.

Future Plans and Monetization
There are many things we would like to implement on the fan site. We would like to implement a Google search bar where our current search bar is located so we can hopefully increase our revenues through searches on our website and we would also like to implement an Adsense block above the grey sidebar. Another goal of ours is to integrate a forum on the website because we believe that will keep people at our site longer and would equal more potential clicks on ads. We aren’t sure whether or not we want to integrate a forum in the website now, or wait a little while to build a loyal fan base. Other than that we hope to provide the latest news, gossip, and pictures about MTV’s Newport Harbor’s cast members.

Feedback and Opinions
We would greatly appreciate your feedback and opinions on the fan site. Maybe even Tyler Cruz, Nate Whitehill, or Zac Johnson will take time out of their busy schedules to drop by and make a comment or two about Newport Harbor Fans. We know that we’re not professionals, but we believe that the potential factor on this fan site could be great if we play our cards right and monetize it correctly.

I was looking at my Google Adsense last night and noticed something. I’ve been hearing of other stories such as this, but didn’t make much of it since I don’t make much revenue from Adsense. I don’t know what’s going on, but I’d sure like to get down to the bottom of the problem because if it’s really affecting my overall earnings then that’s not good! For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about I shall further explain.

Taking a Look
Although I can’t specify how many clicks I received yesterday because of Google’s user agreement when you sign up for Adsense, I can however, tell you how much I earned. As I logged into my Adsense account last night I realized that it said I had earned $1.92 for that day’s earnings, which was August 9. I then viewed the last 7 days of earnings and it said I’ve only earned $1.42, which was for August 3^rd to the 9^th. This is completely off and I don’t know what’s going on. I know for a fact that my 7 day earnings aren’t this low and it’s obvious that it shouldn’t be lower than $1.92 - the August 9^th earnings.

Is anyone else having this problem? If so, how did you get it resolved and what do you suggest I do? I know it isn’t much money, but every little cent counts for me.

Screenshots of the Problem

The other day I was monetizing my blog and creating it into a money making machine (yeah right). Ever since I changed WordPress themes and offered advertising for my blog back in June, my 468 x 60 banner slot in the header has been blank. I’ve always wanted to be able to make the 468 x 60 banner slot rotate between 2 or 3 advertisement banners. I finally got around to finding a plugin for WordPress and instructions to install a rotating banner advertisement of any size.

How to Make a Rotating Banner Ad
This “How to” doesn’t only apply for 468 x 60 banners. You can do it for any kind of advertisement - text links, badges, banners, skyscrapers, and much more. When you create your text document (.txt) you will just need to define the properties of the advertisement you want to rotate, which we’ll get into later in this post.

Steps to Install the Ad Rotator Plugin

1. Download the Ad Rotator plugin and put the .php file in your /wp-content/plugin folder. After uploading the .php file into your plugins folder, activate the plugin in WordPress.
   
   
2. Create a text document (.txt) on your desktop and put the affiliate links and images you want to rotate on a single line in the document. For example, I took the Text Link Ads affiliate link and put it on the first line of the text document. I then took my affiliate link for Aaron Wall’s SEO Book and put it on the second line of the text document.
   
   
3. After creating the text document, naming it, and saving it with your affiliate links you will need to put it in your theme’s directory via FTP. For example, I named my text document bannerads.txt. It’s better to keep like advertisements (468 x 60) in the same text documents. You can create as many text documents as you’d like. Upload the text document (.txt) to the wp-content folder and double check to make sure that it’s a .txt document (very important).
   
   
4. Lastly, you need to define the location of where you want your rotating ads to appear. Add the code where you want your ads to display. Be sure to change “Ad File Name” to the name of the text document you created earlier. For example, my code would look like this . Insert the code into the correct .php file of your choice and your ads will appear instantly. For my example, I entered the code into my header.php file in the appropriate area for the 468 x 60 banner ad. And you’re done!

Now, depending on how many links you put into the text document your website should rotate between the ads with every page view. For my example, the two banners for Text Link Ads and Aaron Wall’s SEO Book rotate every other page view. The Ad Rotator plugin is a great way to gain more advertisers and to maximize your monthly revenue.

You can follow the author’s instructions to install the Ad Rotator plugin, but I found them to be cluttered with ads and hard to follow. Anyone can do this even if you don’t know how to code. I don’t know how to code and I got it to work after about an hour of trying! I hope my instructions provided a little more detail and were easier to follow. If you have any questions feel free to ask through my contact form or in the comments.

Last month began the first post of many more to come about how much money I’m earning online for each month of the year. July (2007) has been a very exciting month in all aspects of my blog. I didn’t earn much more money, but traffic is picking up and increasing fairly quickly. I also got my first website review request from someone on the Digital Point forums and was paid directly. During July I didn’t change anything with the advertising. I did however, add Google Adsense (250 x 250) blocks to some of my more recent posts and a Skyscraper unit (120 x 600) in the left sidebar.

Earnings for July (2007)
July (2007) was the first month I implemented Google Adsense into my blog. I haven’t had time to go through all of my posts and put them in specific areas, but I’ll get around to doing that within a day or two. Hopefully next month I’ll make over $10.00 from Google Adsense.

For the whole month of July I didn’t have Kontera running, but may get it up and running for the month of August, no guarantees though. The reason why I said no guarantee is because I’m not sure if I like Kontera running on my blog or not. The earnings for PayPerPost decreased because I didn’t take as many opportunities as I did last month. It also seems harder to snag those good $10+ dollar opportunities in time before the other 40,000 members of PayPerPost do. As I mentioned earlier this was also the first time I’ve received a review offer and was paid directly. Gladly, the buyer was pleased with my review of his website and gave me a positive iTracker rating on Digital Point.

• PayPerPost: $32.00
• Direct Reviews: $15.00
• Google Adsense: $3.54
• Kontera: $0.00

Blog Traffic for July (2007)
As I mentioned earlier, blog traffic increased substantially. I’ve been amazed about how fast I’ve brought my blog back to life after 3 months of inactivity. I believe that commenting on other blogs, getting Stumbled 2 times, and creating a get a free link post have all helped my blog improve in traffic. The most popular post for the month of July was unwritten rules for blogging and was the first post to be stumbled.

For the month of July I received 3,351 pageviews from 1,544 unique visitors and a total of 1,928 total visits to my blog. This was an increase of 3,009 pageviews and 1376 unique visitors. The average time a visitor spent on my blog was 5 minutes and 5 seconds and viewing only an average of 1.74 pages each visit. This is an increase of 3 minutes and 21 seconds, which is fairly reasonable in my opinion. For the month of July referring sites accounted for 52.33% of my traffic, direct traffic accounted for 13.64% of my traffic, and search engines accounted for 34.02% of my traffic. For August, I expect traffic to keep increasing I hope to improve many aspects of my website to keep new visitors at my blog even longer.

Expectations for August (2007)
Now that blog traffic has increased and is maintaining from day to day I’m pretty happy with the way things are running. However, I’d like to see more of my posts stumbled because it seems like Stumble Upon gave me some quality traffic to my post as well as my blog. After being stumbled, the average time spent on the post was over 2 minutes. I’d also like to make my first text link sale in August. I promoted 10 available text links sitewide on 3 forums and didn’t get one offer, which was kind of disappointing since they are only $5 dollars a month for a predicted Pagerank 5 blog by the next update! If you’re interested in a sitewide text link please read more information on my advertise page. I think for August I’ll look into getting people to buy my text links from Text Link Ads even though they take 50% of your commissions. It seems like a lot of people are successful with the Text Link Ad program. Other than that I hope that I can keep increasing my blog’s traffic as well as my earnings for the month of August.

This wraps up the monthly report for July (2007). If you want to provide any feedback, make suggestions, or have any questions feel free to do so through the contact form or in the comments. Thanks for dropping by!

I made a post at the end of June about how PayPerPost creates an opportunity for new and veteran bloggers to earn money online. I also revealed how much money I’ve made with PayPerPost in June (2007) for my first monthly report of blogging income and earning money online. It’s been just about 2 months that I’ve been using PayPerPost and I’m glad that I’ve taken the time to utilize their service. Although I have yet to receive any payments, many of my reviews have been accepted and it will only be a little more time before I’m paid.

My Experience with PayPerPost
So far my experience with PayPerPost has been great. I’ve had no problems with using their service and I’ve had no problems submitting my sponsored posts. I was however, a little confused at first on what I needed to include on my blog and in the posts to get approved. Just for security reasons on every post I include a phrase “Note: This post was a sponsored review for [name] through PayPerPost.” I also have a sitewide disclosure page that can be found in the navigation. Lastly, I have a small affiliate badge located at the top of the first sidebar on the right.

For some reason, I enjoy waiting for the $10.00 and up opportunities with PayPerPost. I’ve also taken a few $5.00 and $6.00 PayPerPost opportunities. Most of the reviews take me about 30 to 45 minutes to write and to me 30 to 45 minutes is worth $10.00. It’s definitely better than the $7.75 I’m getting per hour at my job. That’s what keeps me motivated. Even though it’s not just about the money, the $10.00 opportunities usually seem more professional and have higher standards for the posties.

My Standings with PayPerPost
I’ve only taken 11 opportunities since I started to use PayPerPost’s services. Out of those 11 opportunities, 7 of them have been accepted, and 4 are still waiting approval. According to PayPerPost, I should be paid 30 days after a post is accepted and approved. Out of the 7 approved posts, I should be receiving payment on 6 of them within the next 10 days. Out of the 11 opportunities I’ve taken and posted about, the average amount of money I’m receiving for each post is $9.50.

I Have a 5 Tack Rating
For the short amount of time I’ve been using PayPerPost’s services, I’ve already got myself to a 5 tack rating. I’ve only received 3 votes towards my overall tack rating and I’m assuming all 3 votes were 5 tack ratings. One of the goals I set for myself when I began using PayPerPost was to obtain a 5 tack rating. This was so that when my blog gets more traffic and a higher Google pagerank, I would be able to take the $100+ opportunities. I definitely take pride in my 5 tack rating because I’ve worked hard to create quality reviews for the companies that are advertising through PayPerPost.

My Portfolio of PayPerPost Reviews

• Need Help Starting a Business?
• Do You Like to Paintball?
• Need Help with Search Engine Marketing?
• PayPerPost Creates Opportunity for New Bloggers
• I Spot The Police
• Do You Have Bad Credit History?
• Do You Need Surgery?
• Sidestepping My Travel
• Driveway - A File Sharing Service
• Finding Rentals Nationwide
• Backing Up Important Online Files

Using PayPerPost to My Advantage
I’m using PayPerPost to my advantage and so should you. Not only am I making a few easy dollars and earning money online, but I’m also building up a great portfolio of reviews on my blog. I wanted to use PayPerPost to help me create a portfolio of reviews so that future advertisers and bloggers could look at them and see the quality I provide. This would be if they were to consider ordering a direct review from my advertise page.

It has definitely been a great experience so far that I don’t see it ending anytime soon. That is, unless something dramatically changes with the ease to use PayPerPost at my own time. Their standards, management, ethic, and website have caught me into their web.