Comments on: Warning: Don’t Back Date PPP Posts!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:34:02 +0000

Wow – that’s a bit sneaky. If you’re a responsible blogger you shouldn’t have to backdate your PPP posts anyway because you’ll only be posting about something you can endorse. In an ideal non-mercenary world anyway!

By: Elizar

Elizar — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:01:14 +0000

I agree 100%! Don’t date-shift you PPP post. They will know, believe me they will.

I’m currently at my 1st month of suspension.. another month and I’m free… The 2 month suspension of my blog on PPP is the result of that backdate posts.

Don’t do it ayt?

By: chilli

chilli — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:06:34 +0000

sounds like an interesting cheating method. but i wouldn´t wanna risk it. it´s too much you could lose by getting banned. mybe they won´t even accept any blogs from your ip in future at all…

By: windyridge

windyridge — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:05:54 +0000

Gotcha, thanks

By: Lucia

Lucia — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:00:56 +0000

@windyridge: I don’t know for sure, but I strongly suspect every paid review company expects your posts to have dates that match the times of publication. I’m also sure every single advertiser would be unhappy to discover your posts were intentionally buried far down on the main page or off the main page entirely.

By: windyridge

windyridge — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:44:06 +0000

What about for ReviewMe.com or other similar companies?

By: Lucia

Lucia — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:22:36 +0000

Hi Andrew,
Yes, in the quote you suggested backdating so the article appears lower on the page. PPP would catch this just as easily as backdating a day or two. They know when you clicked to reserve the opp, when you filed your article and can also find a creation date from sources other than your WP time stamp. So, in addition to violating the TOS, and being totally unfair to the advertiser who purchased the article, you would be caught!

Your welcome from the link. (My blog is do-follow, so if you return and comment, you’ll eventually get a followed comment.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:16:31 +0000

Nice post, thanks for the link, albeit the nofollow.

When I wrote the post, I wasn’t really talking about backdating it to other pages, although I did mention it, I’ve never done it.

I would sometimes just back date it by a few hours or a day maybe to behind another post…whatever.

But yeah, good post

By: Tay

Tay — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 06:24:35 +0000

That is so wrong for people to even think about cheating advertisers out of their money. Is it SUCH a big deal for a sponsored post to appear at the top? I would never do that. Anyway, thanks for the knowledge.

By: lucia

lucia — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:41:16 +0000

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