Didn't Get Paid! Doh! Got Paid! Woohoo!
I checked my PayPerPost account a couple of days because I thought it was nearly time to get paid for my posts last month. I was VERY unhappy to see a message saying that I had NOT been paid for one of my posts because when they checked the link (you have to keep the post up for at least 30 days), the post was gone. GONE??? Where the hell did it go? I clicked the link, and all I saw was a bit of code. No webpage. No blog post. No money.
Turns out something was screwed up with Blogger, and most of the links to individual posts were broken. I tried to republish the entire blog, but it kept timing out. Apparently this is a known problem with Blogger. They're working on it. But I was pretty sure they were working on it enough to have it fixed before the 30-day period expired, and they checked the link for my other paid post, and then declined that payment too. So in the end, I went through the files one by one and fixed the code by hand.
The story has a happy ending. When they checked the link for my second paid post, it worked. And I got paid. Just like they said they would. So I missed out on $5, but I got the $10 payment. I also emailed them and told them what had happened. I'm not worried about the $5. They were right not to pay me. But I just wanted to let them know that I wasn't trying to scam anybody.
Anyway, the short version is, I'm now officially a PayPerPost whoreblogger. I've been paid to post. I don't feel dirty. I don't think it's destroyed my credibility. And it hasn't destroyed the blogosphere-as-we-know-it. Yet.
I'm going to check and see if there are any other blogging opportunities available and maybe make a few more bucks.
Turns out something was screwed up with Blogger, and most of the links to individual posts were broken. I tried to republish the entire blog, but it kept timing out. Apparently this is a known problem with Blogger. They're working on it. But I was pretty sure they were working on it enough to have it fixed before the 30-day period expired, and they checked the link for my other paid post, and then declined that payment too. So in the end, I went through the files one by one and fixed the code by hand.
The story has a happy ending. When they checked the link for my second paid post, it worked. And I got paid. Just like they said they would. So I missed out on $5, but I got the $10 payment. I also emailed them and told them what had happened. I'm not worried about the $5. They were right not to pay me. But I just wanted to let them know that I wasn't trying to scam anybody.
Anyway, the short version is, I'm now officially a PayPerPost whoreblogger. I've been paid to post. I don't feel dirty. I don't think it's destroyed my credibility. And it hasn't destroyed the blogosphere-as-we-know-it. Yet.
I'm going to check and see if there are any other blogging opportunities available and maybe make a few more bucks.
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