Me Versus PayPerPost Reviewers...

I've written nice things and at times some criticisms of PayPerPost, for those of you who read my latest Blog it! Toledo column, PayPerPost is mentioned and I think I did a fair representation of all of the popular pay to blog programs that I participated in.

I'll be the very first to say, sometimes I'm not perfect and I appreciate being told if I've missed a link or done something that needs to be corrected during the whole reviewing process that happens on all of the pay to blog formats. When I've made an error, I correct it and voila..Happiness reigns... To err is human to forgive is devine...

I also gave some great advice as far as doing paid blogging, especially for PayPerPost requires patience at times. It's advice that I try to follow as well, reviewers are human and sometimes they make mistakes. I try 99.9% of the time to keep my communication with them in the same spirit it is being done with me.

However...incidents like today really burn my butt...Having already experienced a rejection for one $75.00 post that the system said I was qualified to take and would have been approved had the review been done in a timely manner but...over two weeks later things changed, I was miffed. I dealt with it, moved on a lesson learned and now over because the rating system was firmly in place for alexa numbers and that was a temporary glitch. Today I was rejected for a $50.00 post that was also written quite some time ago, almost 20 days ago and has sat without approval while other newer posts that were much lesser amounts for the same category of technology/computer/internet related were approved as well as having in that genre paid in the past. I have a screenshot of the opportunity but I'm not going to embarrass the advertiser because this has nothing to do with them, the reviewer said I don't write enough about tech issues, granted I'm a very prolific writer and I don't expect the reviewer to go thru all 1,709 posts that I've written to try to dechiper how often I talk about the internet or computers or technology or hamsters for that matter. Of course I'm mainly political, which was the reason he or she gave me for the rejection but if that was truly the case where that was the key issue then I'd be rejected for the majority of the posts I've written here.

Will I get mad and take my marbles home and say I hate PayPerPost? No, of course not, but this is one frustrating part of the system and I know that I'll probably be rejected again for the post and give up in frustration, because it gets to the point where it's not worth fighting over but it's frustrating to be placed in a situation where the advertiser has already gotten the benefit of the post, it's almost 20 days later now and now for it to be rejected is to me unfair. It'd be like painting a house for someone and doing your very best job and have them tell you 20 days later that because they decided they didn't like the color they wanted their money back...

That is one area where I do have to say some of PayPerPost's competitors do a better job, granted it could be said that it's because they have less volume but they don't place you in a situation where you end up doing something for free that you originally should have been paid for. I have a few other very high paying posts still awaiting review that have been written some time ago. Which I guess means I'll need to update my Blog it! Column because as it's looking if this is going to be general direction, my February earnings were incorrect.

:-)

As an update - I resubmitted giving my reasons why and the post was approved rather than being rejected for a third time. So despite my brief butt burning moment, I'm glad I was patient.