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Last Tuesday I registered with Pay Per Post which allows bloggers to write an independent review of a website, product or service etc and earn a few dollars in the process.

The idea is simple, bloggers register their blog which is then reviewed to ensure it meets with their criteria. If your blog doesn’t you can still use the service but only when an ‘Advertiser’ specifically requests you to blog about what they are offering, if you blog does meet the Pay Per Post criteria then you can also select reviews from the ‘Market Place’. Once you have blogged a review that is first reviewed when posted to your blog and then reviewed again 30 days later and then at this point you are paid.

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I stumbled accross this site yesterday which listed 43ads.com as the ‘Site of the month’ for October 2006.

As most of you know, I did get involved with the pixel ad sites a couple of years ago but this was something I hadn’t seen before and I liked it. Basically there are 43 advertising spots and you bid to advertise, the higher your bid the better the position of your ad. Nothing unusual about that but the interesting part is when it is full.

Once all spots are taken you can still get on the page. The ads shown on the page are the ones from the people who paid the most. If you are thrown off of the page, because 43 people paid more than you did, you will get a full refund of your payment plus the difference between the amount you paid and the amount number 43 on the list paid. Let me show you how this works with some numbers:

Lets say you bought your link for $1 and you now have your link on spot number 43. The link on spot number 42 was sold for $3 and now someone else is buying a link for $5. Since the $5 is more then you paid, you will be pushed off the list and the $3 link is now at number 43. You get back your $1 plus $2 profit!

Now you  aren’t guarenteed to make a profit, if both you and the 42nd spot had paid $1 each then as there is ‘difference between the amount you paid and the amount number 43 on the list paid’ so you just get your money back, but even that is not a bad result.

Obviously you need 43 other advertisers to bid higher than you for you to get any cash back.  I thought I would give it a go, I have stuck an ad for Yzoo on 43ads.com to see how it works out.

Greg