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PayPerPost is taking getting paid to blog to the next level. You can now get paid $1000 for one blog post. Granted, you have to have a blog with a Google Page Rank of 8 and an Alexa score higher than 10,000. That pretty much cuts out most bloggers. Even the mighty Scoble’s blog is only a PR 6. He does have the Alexa ranking, but that is because he is a tech blogger with a lot of his readers having the Alexa toolbar.

Regardless I think the trend of Payperpost paying more for their opps is great. The segmentation that they recently started is a great move forward. It’s what advertisers want and the more advertisers there are the better. A lot of people have spoke out about how they don’t like segmentation, but I like it. You can read more about it on the Payperpost blog. We’ll see what Payperpost does now. As long as they can continue to get advertisers then they’ll be in a great position. If they lose a few bloggers then from a Payperpost perspective I think that’s fine. It is easy to find more bloggers. It is not easy to find more advertisers.

I have recently been looking a little bit at other paid to blog companies. I’ve heard some good things about ReviewMe, but I also heard that they don’t have many blog opportunities. That proves my point. A good system with no advertisers is just a hole. I heard that ReviewMe charges a 100% markup while Payperpost only charges a 35% service charge. That might be the reason that ReviewMe can’t get advertisers. The question then becomes can Payperpost cover their costs at only 35% or will they need to increase that amount to match ReviewMe? Should be interesting to watch blog marketing methods battling it out.