Blogging is the next best this that could ever happen for those who loves to write, gossip and jot down their thoughts and sharing them with the world. Each blog has its own unique feel and topic discussed almost everyday. Too bad for me, I just couldn’t get any firm topic or subject to write on my blogs. Oh well I write whatever that crosses my mind.

However this time I came across a few very interesting things about paid blogging. The rate has gone from bad to worse. A few years back, the rate for paid blogging was fantastic and I could easily sit on my bum and type away over anything that covers the paid blogging topic and earn the same amount as my friends who were working in the office.

Even though bloggers have done everything to boost their sites to make it more competitive like putting their sites in all web directory submission, it still isn’t enough. Now advertisers have become more fussy and more demanding but the rates they are paying is not suitable to accommodate their demand.

I’m not going to list who the irritating advertisers are as it will bring me down to their level. But it is very frustrating to meet to the fancy of these pansies. *snickers*

The things we had to do for our pocket money…

Have you ever tried of typing “paid blogging” on Google Search Engine or any search engine? If you have you’d be bombarded with endless pages of websites explaining the fundamentals of paid blogging and telling you to join their affiliates so you can also earn from blogging.

But do Blogging really pays?

I’ve done quite a few survey and have realised that the only way to fully maximise from blogging is to continuously blog, drive traffic to your site by getting more readers interested in your articles and getting your own paid domain name.

I’ve tried using free blog platforms like Blogger.com and WordPress.com and managed to get frustrated at the minimal usage I can use to implement my advertisement codes into my blog and most Paid Blogging Companies do not accept free platform blogs. Thus, to get the best maximum usage of your blog you need to invest in your own domain and web-hosting.

So how does this blogging bring in my income? There are a few things you can do to your blog. First you need to think of a good idea to categorised your blog. Once you have decided on the topic, stick to it all the while you blog. As I have said earlier, the more interesting your articles get, the more reader and more subscribers you will have. More readers, means more traffic and that will boost your popularity rank of your site. Advertisers will look for high traffic and ranked blogs to put their advertisements in.

You can engage in Advertisers like Adsense since they pay good rates for each unique visit to your site. But I’ll skip on that for now as the topic at hand is to get paid to blog.

Next step you can do after making sure that your blog is 90 days old with frequent traffic is to engage and register Advertising Companies like PayingPost.com, Payu2blog.com. Always make sure that you read each and every Terms and Conditions of each Blogging Advertisers that you register since everyone of them are different especially about their interim posts after you have done their paid posts.

Average Blogging Advertisers will pay USD5.00 per post of minimum 200words. However be prepared to be aggressive in robbing all the available posts because you are not the only blogger who earns from blogging. So don’t be surprised or disheartened when you find all the available opportunities are fully taken. No one ever said earning an income was ever easy.

If you are an active blogger with good ideas, articles and a good pool of readers, don’t be surprised to get quite a good amount of extra pocket money by the end of each month.

Internet has been around for decades now and many people has tried to fully utilise the power of the Internet in any ways they can. It’s not surprising for the advertising companies to crowd the virtual world to offer their services. With the virtual world constantly revolutionising itself in every hour, its not surprising that the Internet is now teeming with different form of advertising.

Paid blogging, PTC, PPP are some of the example of the Internet advertisement. Most of them has the same form of payment method, PAYPAL.

Yes, PayPal is the most convenient method of payment used by Advertisers especially in paid blogging. To be paid after doing all your post, the blogger beforehand has to fill in the payment form which is basically his PayPal ID. This form can be usually found in the Finance Option or Payment Option, whichever fits the bill.

The average period an advertiser will pay after a paid job has been completed and approved is usually two weeks, either a total lum sum or per post. Some Advertisers even have a minimum payout balance which is needed to be accumulated by the blogger before a payment is being given. There are also Advertisers who will pay for each post, 30 days from which your post has been reviewed and approved by them.

I’ve been using PayPal as my form of payment for almost 5 years now and never once have I ever faced any discrepancies in paid blogging payment. In fact, I think its rather safe and very user friendly compared to other payment merchants out there.

For further explanation, you can visit the link Make Blogging For Profit. It is detailedly written and very simple to understand for new bloggers.

Almost everywhere we surf especially blogs, there are bound to be fishy smell of paid posts in the site. If the visitor were to read through the archives of the blog, you can actually spot the difference in non-paid post and paid posts. The stand out is very obvious especially since some of the paid post were haphazardly done and some to the extend of just putting the link of the advertiser on the end of their post, a sore eye.

But why would advertisers want to pay for something so insignificant to most of us readers while they can just pay for online advertisement like Google Adwords or Text Link Ads. It all lies in the traffic that the link creates.

The higher the page ranking of the website, the sites that is linked to the site also get a higher PR percentage. The higher the PR stats, the higher their steps in climbing the Google search engine whenever someone searches for a product or service.

Let’s just say that previously when we search for Ice Cream on Google search engine, and the website of the Mr A is on page 10. However after engaging in a Blog Advertising company to have their site advertise on blogs that has a high PR, the rank of the website Mr A will be increased to page 3 after a few months. It makes a lot of difference since most users that searched on the search on the search engine will never go further than page 5 of the search engine, deeming the rest of the sites are waste of time.

Furthermore, if the traffic of the blog is high and the readers ranges qualifies the buyers category of the seller, the link will surely be clicked due to curiosity. Out of every 100 of the visitors, a range of 1-10 people would click on the advertisement links. The higher the rate of visitor, the higher the awareness it creates in the visitors about the product/services rendered by the advertisers.

However the above is only qualified for paid posts only. It is not a difficult process in promoting a website using paid blogging.

As usual, this post is influenced by the madness of the papers that had been flagging down blogs that have been trying to promote racist and inciting of hate towards religions. The media sure make it looks like there are no rules on blogging at all whereas there are plenty. I do not support racist or any manner/form of hate towards anyone or anything or any organisation whatsoever. Therefore I’m creating an all out awareness to bloggers who simply sits on their bum and think that it’s a free world out there on the internet with freedom of speech.

Firstly and most importantly, there are no such thing as freedom of speech on the internet. Don’t think that whatever you type/express/rant about cannot be traced down by the authorities should you ever piqued their attention. No parties would ever want to mess with the men in blue especially when they start coming out with warrants and court orders. Take note that every web hosters, blog hosters, domain owners and anything that corresponds to them would do everything in their power to comply with the men in blue.

Next, let’s take a deeper look at some Terms of Service or Blogging Etiquette of some well known web publishing blogging services. In Blogger.com, it is clearly stated that they do not tolerate Pornography & Obscenity, Hateful Content, Violent Content, Copyright, Private & Confidential Information, Impersonation, Unlawful Use of Service, Spam-Malicious-Codes & Virus. Taking a copy and paste action, the meanings of the above are as follows:-

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PORNOGRAPHY AND OBSCENITY:

• Pornography and Obscenity: Image and video content that contains nudity, sexually graphic material, or material that is otherwise deemed explicit by Google should be made private. Otherwise, we may put such content behind an interstitial.
• Pedophilia, Incest and Bestiality: Users may not publish written, image or video content that promotes pedophilia, incest and bestiality.
• Commercial Pornography: We do not allow content that exists for the primary purpose of monetizing porn content or driving traffic to a monetized pornography site.
• Child Pornography: Google has a zero-tolerance policy against child pornography, and we will terminate and report to the appropriate authorities any user who publishes or distributes child pornography.

HATEFUL CONTENT: Users may not publish material that promotes hate toward groups based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity.

VIOLENT CONTENT: Users may not publish direct threats of violence against any person or group of people.

COPYRIGHT: It is our policy to respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement. More information about our copyright procedures can be found here.

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: We do not allow the unauthorized publishing of people’s private and confidential information, such as credit card numbers, Social Security Numbers, and driver’s and other license numbers.

IMPERSONATION: We do not allow impersonation of others through our services in a manner that is intended to or does mislead or confuse others.

UNLAWFUL USE OF SERVICES: Our products and services should not be used for unlawful purposes or for promotion of dangerous and illegal activities. Your account may be terminated and you may be reported to the appropriate authorities.

SPAM, MALICIOUS CODES AND VIRUSES: We do not allow spamming or transmitting malware and viruses.

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Blogger.com is not the only one that has the Blogging Etiquette in their Terms of Service. In fact WordPress.com, Livejournal.com and many others have that rules in their service. They will not hesitate to terminate your service should the blogger insist of doing otherwise.

Furthermore, if your content should attract the wrong attention of any government authorities from whichever countries, then you’d find yourself being hauled up in not the most friendly way. Even though as a blogger, we have the so called ‘power’ to express our discontentment with whatsoever party, we do not have the ‘power’ at all. We are still governed by rules and regulations. So don’t start blabbering your anger away should any parties decide that they had enough of your nonsense and pull you out into court.

So bloggers, do your part in being wiser, read the Terms of Service before you start your writings and end up on the wrong side of the law.