Blogkits - similar to PayPerPost
September 4, 2007 4:09 am Web 2.0
As if PayPerPost wasn’t enough, enter Blogkits, a new kid on the block for paid blogging. However upon checking closer, I noticed it is catered to USA citizens as you need to key in your social security number or tax id. PayPerPost already has had complaints from its writers that if you do post a negative opinion, and don’t have a high traffic blog, you quickly fall to the lowest rank of the system, and pay follows your ranking downhill.
The newest entrant in this arena, BlogKits, seems to eliminate the ranking system for pay, but links the majority of bloggers’ compensation to click-rate: the “best weekly submission” for a certain campaign can receive $100, but for the rest of the campaign participants, it’s the clicks that count.
If a blogger really wanted to make money from BlogKits, it’s fairly obvious that you’d have to rely on positive reviews; how many people are going to click through to a company or product you’ve just panned, especially if they are loyal readers who already place some value on what you have to say?
