And IZEA Spoke Again - Shouting!

I just received an email from PayPerPost about another blog they approved before, where I also guest post (namreg.com). It was about their blog assessment again. It said that this blog does not meet their standards for overall quality and will no longer be able to be used for accepting marketplace opportunities. It felt like IZEA shouted at my ear.

Ironically this blog still has a Page Rank 4. It gave us lots of opportunities while it lasted. The bright side is payments currently pending will still be made so at least the earnings through this blog made it all worth the while because a blog having a high PR at PPP really brings in the bucks.

I, of course, thank my college friend who gave me the opportunity to guest post while he benefited from the traffic created by the blog's revival.

Well, so much for the opportunities at PPP - 2 blogs down, 5 to go.

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Is Something Wrong With IZEA?

I don't know about you but this past two days, the two paid-to-blog services of IZEA have been having glitches in their system or the network's doing it intentionally.


The other day, I was withdrawing some money I earned from blogging for Socialspark and their system prompted that I did not have enough funds in my account to withdraw such amount. And it was less than $50 only, I mean, it wasn't a very big amount. I submitted a help ticket and the good thing was I was able to withdraw it yesterday. But the first thing that came to my mind was that maybe it was Socialspark who didn't have enough funds for the withdrawal I was trying to make. But everything got cleared up so maybe I was wrong for thinking that about them.


But, this morning, as I was checking for available opportunities in my PayPerPost account, I noticed that there were fewer opportunities open than usual. This made me check the 'my blogs' tab to check on the status of my blogs approved by PPP (I currently have 7 blogs approved at PPP but, as of last week only two of them remain to have Page Rank). I was surprised to see that all my blogs, according to their system, have PR 0! So, even though I was a bit nervous that the two remaining blogs I have with PPP that have PR might have been hit by a non-scheduled PR update from Google, I checked the two blogs in my browser soldoutlive.org and namreg.com. I was relieved that they still have PR and it was PPP who was having another glitch in their system. I already submitted a help ticket about this but I can't help but think that maybe, just maybe, IZEA was having some financial issues. Because having no PR in PPP's eyes means that there would be less opportunities from them. I thought that maybe they're just intentionally doing it so that they won't have to incur payment responsibilities for bloggers for a while.


But, again, these are just my thoughts. I have been blog hopping and have heard the buzz from a blogger friend, jpsimbulan, about PayPerPost and IZEA doing some cleaning up in their system. That they're trying to clean and trim their network of non-quality blogs (not accounts) without really defining their criteria for 'quality blogs'. Maybe this is what's causing the glitches in IZEA's paid-to-blog services.


But what do you think? What are your thoughts about this? Care to share them?

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