Foreign Perspectives

One of the terms of service of PayPerPost is that you must have a non-sponsored post either side of one of the sponsored posts. The non-sponsored post can’t, of course, be sponsored by anyone.

That’s a sensible rule as otherwise their sponsored posts would end up largely in purely advertising blogs which would mean, in due course, that they’d only be taken by commercial outfits. There are already fully commercial blogs of course in that various companies write them but, so far, none that I know of which are purely advertising from the likes of PPP.

However, one problem that we’ve started to run into is that because we’ve a number of other websites they’re rejecting posts where the “normal” post is promoting one of our own sites! Are they sponsored? I don’t think so because we certainly don’t pay ourselves to write them.

Wendy’s even had one or two rejected when she’s written about a college of music as a normal post. That’s definitely not sponsored as nobody paid her for it nor does she have any commercial connection with them.

Still, ’tis nice to see that this is pretty much the only type of rejection that we’ve both been getting lately. It’s a sign that we’re finally getting into the swing of it.

Funnily enough this particular post is tagged “sponsored” because it’s about sponsorship but, honestly, Mr/Ms PPP it wasn’t sponsored!