Did you know you can get paid for blogging about other people’s products, services and companies?

This is a widely discussed phenomenon generally known as paid blogging or pay-per-post blogging. The usual model is that you agree to write about a company or its products in your blog, and receive compensation for doing so.

Some bloggers consider this to be on the shady side, but I think it’s fine if:

  1. The blogger feels free to give his or her honest opinion, even a negative one (some companies understand that even less-than-great publicity is still publicity),
  2. It is made clear to the blog’s reader that a particular post is a compensated one, and
  3. Compensated posts make up only a small percentage of the total posts on a blog.

Several companies have arisen to match advertisers with bloggers willing to post for pay. PayPerPost is one of the larger and better known of these.

If you have a blog, you can sign up with PayPerPost to be available for paid blogging assignments. It’s free to register with them.

They do have some requirements, though. One of the main ones is that your blog must be at least 90 days old. That means that this blog you’re reading now would not yet qualify.

Individual advertisers may have additional requirements. Often these will relate to the blog’s topic (they might not pay you to post about their new mp3 player on a blog devoted to pet birds, for example). They might also want to be assured that your blog has sufficient traffic to justify paying you to post about them.

If this interests you please be sure to check out the PayPerPost site for more info and maybe you’ll soon be blogging for pay. Again, sign-up is totally free.

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