I have been PPP blogger with my 2. Space (GoogleRank 3) blog from May 2007. Since that I’ve written 119 posts for PPP and earned about $950.
Picture 1. My blogger dashboard at PPP
But few weeks ago, I started to receive error messages with my posts. With the help of the PPP personnel, we were able to locate the error, but there is no solution for the problem at the moment. If PPP won’t change their system, I’m pretty sure, that Windows Live is not that willing to do it either.
The actual problem is, that Windows Live changes the html -code slightly like in this example:
<img src=”http://tinyurl.com/2zo9bp”> should be <img src=”http://tinyurl.com/2zo9bp” />
So, with PPP and Windows Live “/” ends my business and cuts my income. Luckily I was not doing this as my main work.
Picture 2. A clip from discussion with PPP personnel. (hello to you Mike if you read this)
Things, to learn from this incident
With web 2.0 earnings risk management goes the same rule than with other business: Don’t Put All Your Eggs Into One Basket. You should have several blogs and several business associates. I actually have this blog, and I have made agreements with Sponsoredreviews and Blogitive. The thing just is, that I’m not doing blogging anymore for $10. I rather spend my time in improving my blogs quality to be able to earn more in the future.
I’m not bitter to PPP or Windows Live at all. As an information technology worker myself, I understand the challenges with technology and integration. I know, that you just cannot go and do a small change, without checking it’s influence on the other software.
And I promise to keep on blogging with 2. Space even without earnings and perhaps some day, I’ll be back with blogging to PPP.
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