As an example of sponsored posts you can see the last two I have written here and here. They are simply short articles, or reviews, on nominated subjects. In doing this you are paid anything from $5 to $100 or even more.
Now before you get too excited about the likes of getting $100 for writing short reviews the reality is that you probably won't get this much unless you have a blog with a high PageRank.
This blog has a PageRank 5 and I normally get around $15 to $35 for writing a sponsored post with PPP. I noticed today, for instance, that there was an offer that would pay $10.50 for a review by a PR3 blog but $20.50 for a PR5 or above.
This is an illustration of why PageRank sometimes matters.
With the websites running these sponsored post programs there are certain criteria that you have to meet before you are accepted. Normally blogs must have been running for three months and have at least 20 posts. Needless to say they won't accept adult blogs or anything controversial. My celebrity blog was turned down for example - probably because there is sometimes naughty(ish) stuff about celebs.
As I see it, it's quite easy to make some decent money with sponsored blogs if you plan things properly. I would suggest running a few blogs and keep these updated regularly for three months plus and then join PayPerPost or something similar - or why not join several.
After this period you should be a able to easily write two, three or more sponsored posts daily -and this will add up to a nice income.
When you start off writing sponsored posts you may only be offered say $5 but don't let this put you off. I once said that I wouldn't write a post for this amount, but it will get anyone started earning money and gradually this will increase.
If you write say three sponsored posts a day at only $5 each this will still give you over $100 a week. Of course if they are $20 each it would give you $420 per week - and so on.
In some ways this is a method of making money with free blogs that can be very successful but just think ...
If you combined this with what I talked about yesterday i.e. Making money with affiliate programs and running adverts ...
... then the money you make would be considerably higher still.
Will continue on this theme another day.
Good luck,
Mike.
Further reading:
Making Money With Free Blogs - The Truth - Part 2
Making Money With Free Blogs - The Truth - Part 1
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