Posties Paid $100 to Remove Links
Comfirmed by Joe of Pay Per Post / Izea: Some publishers are paying posties $100 to remove paid links. The discussion takes place on this thread.
Here’s an interesting tidbit: Several posties wouldn’t have been able to find the paid links to delete without the spread sheet provided in the request!
So, if your a postie, you might want to ask yourself: If someone offered me $100 to remove a link, could I find it?
How to make it easier to find your own paid links without making it easier for Google to find them.
- Place all sponsored posts in internal hidden categories.
Do this by creating a “sponsored posts” category, then using “Hide Sponsored Categories Plugin” to prevent the category from showing in the main portion of your blog. You can create as many internal categories as you like, which will help with book keeping on your side and reduce the number of post you need to sift through to find the link you want to delete. - Use WordPress’s built in search tool to find urls inside links.
Which search tool? Where? Log into your Administrative area in wordpress, then click “Admin”. Near the top left, you’ll see “search”. You can enter searches like “thepaidlink.html”, then click “search”. Wordpress will return every post containing thepaidlink.html, even if string is contained inside a hyperlink. (If you’ve marked the post “sponsored”, you can be certain you are deleting the correct link!
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Interesting Lesson: Not being nice pays.
A nice postie who honored an earlier request writes:
well darn, if that is regarding the biz rate opp, I should have just left it and then I would be getting this $100 too now I guess, but NO, I removed it on the 1st email I received…lol
October’s Google fall out shows that it can be profitable for some posties to risk their page ranks and not delete paid posts. It can be even more profitable to refuse to remove them unless the advertiser pays! Hhhmmm….
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WOW, thats pretty crazy. People are usually paying to add links.
Still got mine up, where’s my money? lol
Interesting tips, I’m new to this blog, but I’ll be back after reading this. Good stuff bro.
What is to become of us. (laughs). That’s the best earner I can think of. Cripple your blog under the new secret google penalties and then offer sites the opportunity to have links not added but taken down… hmm…
I just got an offer for $30 bucks to change a link– but not through PPP.
Today i rcvd an e-mail from Payperpost regarding this..
and they have requested me to add a no-follow tag to one of my post..
What ever happened to freedom of speech? Ever heard of the Google Mafia?
i got paid $20 to place nofollow on 5 links
deposited into my paypal.. i guess they are desperate
I never thought about hiding the sponsored post, this is a great idea that I am going to have to add to my blog. I have only read a few of your post, mainly about Google’s slap, but I am already learning a lot. Thanks for the great tips.
Wow.. That is surely an interesting tidbit, though it’s really funny to see how people get paid to REMOVE links, lol, not add them.
Very weird world we live in.
The link to ‘this thread’ at the top is giving a 404 error. Can someone correct it? I am very curious to see the original thread.
I have been paid $100 to add links, but to remove them? I wish someone would pay me to do that.
Very interesting, This will help us in ranking good in google, even the tool is also very helpful. When will you start paying PPP Lucia. Will be waiting for your postive response.
Regards