It’s been a depressing day for many Pay Per Post bloggers. Google released a nuke that devastated a huge number of blogs with PR 0 effectively rendering them useless for PPP income. One of the reasons cited over the net is that Google PR was initially created for internal use only. Google felt that it was abused by ad companies using it as metrics for how good or popular a blog is. The higher your PR the more money you can make from it. Selling links such as TLA and writing paid posts diluted the search engine algorithm. So it’s no surprise Google has taken this drastic action and reduced many (I suspect almost ALL) PayPerPost blogger.

This is sad because many of those that relied on PPP were mommy bloggers. For example PPP top earner is Colleen whose blog is Simple Kind of Life. She is a working mom and her blog did not escape the PR 0 bomb. So is our 5xmom. I think ALL her blogs have been nuked too.

Giving a PR 0 is equivalent to a job firing. So I guess all posties will have to look for another ‘job’ that does not require PR. How can you make money using a PR 0 website? I think that’s a very difficult task. Google Adsense ? You’d have to have heavy traffic in order to earn from Adsense. Top bloggers like Problogger and JohnChow don’t even use them!

Anyway, Izea is coming out with their new metrics for ranking PPP blogs but that will only come out next year. So in the meantime it looks like all PPP posties is out of the job