I was doing some reading when I happened across a blog named All Spiced Up. I didn’t know what to expect when I got there, but the blog name made think that it would be something about the Spice Girls. When the site loaded up, I found what could only be described as random celebrity pictures posted over the course of the last few months. Some of which did include the former Posh Spice.
In the blog’s top post, I found a link for Pay Per Post that said “Get Paid to Review My Post”. I had seen Pay Per Post on different blogs, but never seen a button like that, so I clicked it. Of course, I was taken to the Pay Per Post page and then had to signup before they would allow me to do anything.
Since I had now spent about 3 seconds total on the All Spiced Up blog, I figured I should go back and give it a good look, since I might be getting $7.50 to review the blog. Or the post. I really wasn’t clear.
The first thing I noticed about All Spiced Up was that it is a blogspot blog. Now, there isn’t anything inherently wrong with a blogspot blog, except for the fact that it is a blogspot blog. It simply looks unprofessional. The layout is very sloppy and the overall look of the blog makes it look “thrown together”…
I scrolled down a bit, and I started to notice that the posts were spaced out over time. This obviously isn’t a daily blog. There was a stretch in August where they posted for 3 straight days, but besides that it seems to be about 1 post per day - and those posts generally consist of a celebrity photo and about 50 words of text. Seems like something someone could have put together rather quickly.
Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the entire blog is bogus. Someone slapped up some pictures of Britney Spears and Halle Berry, and then stuck the Pay Per Post link at the top of the blog. Pay Per Post runs an affiliate program that pays you $15/referral - so if they can tempt me with $7.50, and they manage to squeeze the $15 out of the process, they are still making $7.50 out of the deal.
The catch is that they won’t get paid until “the referees first blog posting is reviewed, approved and then finally accepted 30 days later.” - Which I think means that I have to pay someone to review on my posts - Which means that it isn’t going to happen for them.
That’s all I have to say about All Spiced Up. I’ll cover my thoughts about Pay Per Post in another post.