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Spurred on by the latest attack of the Googlebot, PayPerPost has accelerated the launch of RealRank. This is PayPerPosts new in-house blog ranking system which is designed to give an alternative to PageRank and Alexa.

If you already have Google Analytics or Statcounter code or similar installed on your site you’ll find this is similar. By installing PayPerPosts Tools code on your site you allow them to track your blogs statistics. They then use these statistics to give you a ranking which is independent of PageRank or Alexa. The ranking is similar to Alexa, ie the lower your score, the better.

PayPerPost is a very lucrative earner and so I think it’s worth my while to allow them this access to my stats.

Your RealRank is an indication of how you measure up against other blogs within the PayPerPost system, which would be what advertisers would be interested in. It is still in the roll-out stages yet so the rankings are fluctuating quite a bit.

After I installed the code a few days ago my RealRank stood at around 3,000. It has since gone from that to 1995 and then to 1500. Thanks to my viral post getting re-infected last night it now stands at 100, although I expect that to drop back very quickly.

The reason it can fluctuate so much at the moment is that many Posties have still to install the code. When they do the RealRank will become more stable, more competitive and, God forbid, more accurate than Alexa or PageRank!

In the long-run what RealRank means is that the quality blogs who attract the most visitors will get the better paying jobs. It is only fair after all.

This week I earned $152.83 bringing my total online earnings to $426.95. This is the fifth week in a row that I have increased my earnings. This weeks earnings represent 38.21% of my target of $400 per week that I set myself when I quit my job to earn money blogging.

The biggest earner this week was PayU2Blog from which I earned $72.50.

When I first applied to PayU2Blog I heard nothing for about a week. Then I got an e-mail saying I had been accepted and explaining their conditions. These are that you must agree to complete every assignment that they give you. In return they agree that they will not ask you to do an assignment for anything that is pornographic or unethical.

There aren’t many other requirements, other than that the post is a minimum of 60 words long and contains a link. In fact you can usually write about almost anything you like in the post as long as you include the link that they give you.

After I accepted the conditions I received another e-mail with my login and password. When I logged in first there were no assignments to complete and I kind of forgot about them for a few days.

The next time I logged last week there were 20 assignments for me to complete valued at $5 each. There was a time limit on these assignments with the longest one being ten days. Anyway I’ve been blogging furiously this week to keep up with all of these posts and I’ve got 14 of them done so far. (One was worth $7.50.) I don’t know if PayU2Blog is like this every week but this week has certainly been well-paid.

The next biggest earner was PayPerPost with whom I earned $64.50 this week. This is my second week with PayPerPost. In my first week I earned $63.50. Again I’m not with them long enough to know if this is a pattern or a fluke but for the second week in a row I have done well with PayPerPost.

I have, however, paid a price for my association with PayPerPost. Google have targeted sites which have references to PayPerPost and reduced their PageRank to zero. My PageRank for this blog has been wiped out. If you choose to get involved with PayPerPost, or sponsored posts in general you might want to bear that in mind. On the other hand I got $152.83 this week and it was only PR2 anyway! Overall I think I’m happier with the $152.83.

PayPerPost have launched their own ranking system to counter the way that Google messes around with PageRank. The new RealRank system is based on a combination of how many visitors, pageviews and back links you have to your blog.

The Rank is calculated by installing a script on your blog which allows PayPerPost to analyse the visitor statistics. I have found PayPerPost to be lucrative enough to go ahead and install the script onto the blog I have registered with them. As my other blogs get older I intend to add them as well.

Incidentally Smorty are now advising bloggers to remove ‘Sponsored Post’ tags from their posts to stop the Googlebot from catching them and killing their PageRank. It’s true that by not disclosing your sponsored posts or mentioning sites such as PayPerPost on your site then you should be able to keep your PageRank, but isn’t it terrible that this Google purge is going to drive sponsored posts underground?

PayU2Blog and PayPerPost were my two big earners this week. The rest of the cash came from:
ReviewMe $7.50
Smorty $6.00
Irish Opinions $1.48
Adsense 73c
Helium 12c

PageRanks latest adjustment seems to have been directed against bloggers who write sponsored posts.

I was away from my computer for a few days. When I returned to check my stats yesterday and saw that my PageRank on this blog had been reduced to zero I was a little surprised.

I got my first indication that this was a more widespread thing from reading an e-mail from John Chows site; I was one who signed up in the recent competition!

Considering that some people have seen their site knocked by PR5 all the way down to zero my fall from PR2 down to zero doesn’t seem so bad.

The PayPerPost blog has advice for posties:

“If you have been hit by Google unfortunately there is little we can do. We know that Google PR does not reflect your actual traffic and it is sad that Google chooses to over look that to protect their own bottom line. We now know from some of our friends inside of Google (thanks ‘bob’) that they are now looking for phrases such as PPP, PayPerPost, ReviewMe, Payu2blog, etc. in the text of your post. For that reason I would suggest refraining from using any type of this text in the body of your posts, sponsored or not. When you disclose thank the sponsor, not PPP.”

Personally, I’m not prepared to remove references to sponsored post sites on this blog to get the PageRank restored. I’m not prepared to do this because I have found them to be so profitable! I now have a weekly internet income of $100 per week through a combination of PayPerPost, Sponsored Reviews and Smorty.

Because my PageRank was only a PR2 anyway the effect of it’s loss on my ability to make money online through sponsored posts is very slight.

In any case PayPerPost are about to introduce a new system which will go some way towards making PageRank irrelevant for posties. Ted Murphy also revealed on the PayPerPost blog that they are accelerating the release of their new RealRank system which they intend to use as a replacement for PageRank to rate blogs.

My PageRank’s Gone And Left Me

My PageRank got up and left me in the middle of the night. We had been together for less than three weeks. When I first got PageRank at the end of October I was delighted. She was only a 2 but she was my 2 and I loved her. I thought that she loved me too and we were very happy together.

However this all changed suddenly a couple of days ago when PageRanks domineering parents, themselves having taken a vow of poverty, became shocked and disgusted at my honest attempts to make money blogging. They decided I was no longer good enough for their little PR2 and ordered her to come home. She went. And now I’m sad.

Well, I’m a little bit sad. The $100 I earned last week on the internet, largely from writing sponsored posts has been some consolation to me!

I’ve written previously about Payday loans. These are small, short-term loans which are designed to bridge the gap between pay checks. Check Into Cash have 1,250 centers across the US.

The way their service works is that you go into one of their centers with suitable ID, such as photo identification, a current bank statement and proof of income.. You give them a post-dated check for the amount you want to borrow plus their fee and they will give you an advance loan. The check you give them is dated to be drawn on your account on a date in the future, usually on your next payday.

These type of small bridging loans are useful for people with no savings who find themselves faced with a sudden unexpected bill or some other financial crises. This type of service provides peace of mind and saves the worry that the check you present to pay off your bill is going to bounce. You don’t need to worry about that because Check Into Cash already know that you don’t have the funds to meet the check right now.

I have been in similar positions in the past and I know that the last thing you want to have to worry about on top of everything else is the fear that your check will bounce.

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