“Bloggers who write for PayPerPost also write for a host of other companies so you may want to make sure that the said opp is from the PayPerPost marketplace and not somewhere else because Trish explained that this is the way to go for LoudLaunch campaigns.
This may be the norm in the old days where the fastest submissions get the opps but after PayPerPost changed their system to allow a 30-minute window to write and submit an opp, I don’t think anyone is still as ignorant to do so. Long time posties will remember that Suni has a Blogger blog called Postie Patrol or something like that to “catch” violators. That was very effective in stopping people from repeating their mistake.
Moreover, now that there is a six-hour window (let’s not talk about the glitch of losing an opp before the time is up), there is no reason for anyone to cheat. Really, six hours is so long, check out the things that I could do within this time frame.
I would like to point out that publishing a post on our blog DOES NOT equal to a submission. Posties who have written opps like Wirefly would remember that we were asked to grab images of mobile phones from the advertiser’s website and upload them to our own server/blog and not hotlink the images.
With three to five images in the published post without the write up does not equal to a submission. We still have to write out the post and then submit. This goes for some other complex opps where we have to embed videos. Well, not all videos will work the first time round. So of course we would only know when we have it published. These are just a couple of examples.
I blog hop a lot and have come across many violators, the most rampant are bloggers who use sponsored posts from other marketplaces as interim posts, unless it is a Linky Love wedging post because Brett says so or publishing the same original posts (text, links, images and all) on two different blogs. When I come across the same posts on two different blogs, I get a sense of deja vu. My first reaction was, “If you can’t upkeep your blogs with original content, then don’t start so many.”
I let the blogger know by contacting him/her that someone has discovered such an issue. Who knows, maybe sometimes a blogger may have started writing a post on one blog and then the post took a different turn that the blogger feels that it is more appropriate to publish it on another blog and forgot to delete the first post.
My friend told me that I am making enemies for myself what with all the jealousy already on PayPerPost (just talk to any top earner this side of the globe), but then I think that hey, it is better for me to let them know in private so that they have to chance to rectify it than being reported by someone else for a genuine mistake. I am not bitchy enough to put sand into another person’s rice bowl after all we are all here to cari makan.
Anyway, I think by now bloggers who blog for pay (not only PayPerPost Posties) know that once they submit a post, the advertiser gets an instant email alert and should the advertiser come to a blank post, the blogger runs the risk of being banned, flagged and even booted out of the system entirely. I don’t think anyone would be THAT dumb!
The way to truly alert violators of their wrongdoing, if you want to give them a second chance, is to let them know in private and not sound a forewarning without even sure if the violators read your blog.”
