{"id":313,"date":"2007-01-02T14:45:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T14:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/archives\/313"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:14:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:14:36","slug":"performancing-and-payperpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/performancing-and-payperpost\/","title":{"rendered":"Performancing and PayPerPost!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, a bit late it may be, but it’s the holiday season – we shouldn’t even be posting at all! (Just kidding of course, we’re always here, and always<\/em> hard at work). But anyway, why!?<\/strong> Why did Perfomancing, one of the very best online services for bloggers, have to be bought up<\/a> by the nasty, cheating, and totally immoral PayPerPost!?\n<\/p>\n

For those of you not in the know, PayPerPost<\/a> accquired Performancing<\/a> on December 25, 2006 (Welcome to 2007 everyone, btw!), and are making sure everyone knows about it. Performancing is a great, friendly, and honest company; PayPerPost made their money through dishonest, bribery, and deception. Whereas Performancing was an honest service that most bloggers were proud to be a part of, PayPerPost’s very essence involved shame and denial – what a match!\n<\/p>\n

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PayPerPost<\/strong> is a relatively new start-up that allows “bloggers to make money,” except it’s not as innocent as it sounds. It was basically a mass-PR deception. Bloggers would be “hired” by companies to “review” their products and “write only positive aspects” of the product. Even worse, companies could require<\/strong> that the blogger not<\/strong> disclose the fact that this was blatant paid advertising,<\/strong> pretending that it was “just another review!”<\/em> The FTC caught on pretty quick however, and made it mandatory to include some form of (really tiny and illegible) disclaimer informing readers that this was in fact a paid advertisement. But the ruling doesn’t make PayPerPost any less of a dishonest corporate entity trying to profit off of the blogging bandwagon in the most dishonest ways imaginable.\n<\/p>\n

Performancing<\/strong> on the other hand, is a free<\/em> service that helps bloggers get statistics about activity on their site and, more recently, place ads (in image format) on their website. It’s an honest start-up with a respectable name in the business, that has helped thousands of bloggers get to know their site and traffic better, and even make a couple of bucks along the way.\n<\/p>\n

Why would Performancing sell out, especially to the likes of PayPerPost?<\/strong> The answer is easy: money. Performancing was a free service, and their new advertising network was pretty much a failure: with too many already successful alternatives out there and a tiny (relatively speaking) userbase, their ad network didn’t flourish. To the contrary, it went belly-up. PayPerPost on the other-hand is a highly successful enterprise (nevermind the means and morals at the moment), and has the money to buy what they couldn’t earn: respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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