Paid Blogging: A Look at 5 Blogging Opportunities

Do you have a blog? Have you thought about paid blogging?

In this article, I'll review 5 paid blogging opportunities, where you create a post and are paid for your efforts.

1) PayPerPost

With PayPerPost your blog has to meet certain requirements to make the grade and you have to install some PPP tools on your blog before approval but once you are up and running. Opportunities range from the lower end, around $1.00 to much higher: $25.00, $100.00 or more.

At PPP, you browse through the blogging offers and choose which ones are suited to your blog.

• PPP blogging payment amounts seem to have dropped. As well, blogs with PPP tools installed on them may have noticed a drop in PR. In light of these recent developments, PayPerPost may not be the blogging opp. it once was.

What I Like: Convenient colors allow you to see at a glance which opportunties your blog qualfies for. For example, white and green denote that you can post on those opportunities, gray means that all posts are reserved, pink means that your blog doesn't yet qualify.

What I Don't Like: The drop in rates and the PR demotion.

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2) Blogvertise

Generally speaking, it seems to be easy to gain blog approval. You can also set your minimum pay-out per blog and ad type. Blovertise allows blog video ad entries which tend to pay more. This is a good, if infrequent route to blogging earnings. Payouts tend to be on the small side.

What I Like: One feature that I like about Blogvertise is that they e-mail you with offers, which you can accept or decline. I find this convenient over having to log-in to the site to see if any tasks are waiting.

What I Don't Like: The number of paid posts offered.

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3) Today.com

Today.com is offering an newer blogging opportunity. You set up one blog and are paid $1.00 per daily post + a percentage of ad revenue the first month out of the starting gate.

Everything is free: Today.com takes care of hosting and software you need to blog. You choose from a selection of blog templates. After the first month, pay rates increase or go down, depending on your blog's popularity.

Update: I'm not sure if Today.com is offering payments to bloggers now.

What I like: If you are already used to blogging, creating short posts and actually getting paid to do so makes sense. In essence, you are paid for something you do already. Plus you have the chance for increased earnings down the road.

You can create a second blog and earn from it, as well.

Some of the top bloggers are making up to $700.00 per month.

What I Don't Like: How long it takes for your earnings to be credited and show up in your account.

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4) Sponsored Reviews

Sponsored reviews is somewhat different. You log-in and peruse the different blogging opportunities and then set a price on whatever opp. you want to blog about. What I don't care for is that this is time-consuming. I don't have time in a working day to do this with any regularity.

What I Like: At times, you receive an offer from an advertiser. This can be quite lucrative. I've been paid the most with Sponsored Reviews.

What I Don't Like: You have to bid on projects and can never count on whether your bid will be accepted. Plus it is time-consuming to go through all the offers and bid on these, all without knowing if the time you invested will pay off.

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5) Smorty

Smorty also allows you to earn a little from blogging. While blogging opps. appear to be infrequent, this may depend on your blog's PR or other factors. Smorty is a blogging sideline.

What I like: I heard about a lucrative writing job through Smorty and obtained high-paying review work.

What I Don't Like: Infrequency of paid offers.

Certainly, from the foregoing, it can be seen that you can get paid by creating short blog posts. This can be a means to pick up a little extra cash but if you want to make real money blogging, you might choose to create a profit-generating blog. If this is something that interests you, see the books below that discuss how to set up an actual blogging business.

Wouldn't it be nice to have the know-how to turn any blog into a highly profitable, moneymaking machine!? This promises to teach you step-by-step to do just that.

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Paid blogging is another way to earn money from your blog. If you have a blog with a high PR, your payment amounts can become quite lucrative but one drawback is that in recent months, bloggers have found their blog ranking impacted because of taking sponsored posts.