Bottom feeding at one paid to blog site

I really feel like I am living up to the name of this blog, "Scratching out a living". Not only is it scratching but clawing my way out of the bottom. Why do I feel that way? The companies that pay people to blog make you feel that way. The number one on the list is Pay Per Post. You feel great when they accept your blog into their system. You think you will make at least $20 a day - you hope. You don't realize that they have at least 100,000 other bloggers in their system too. Other pay to blog companies like Blogsvertise (a link to them is in the sidebar toward the bottom of the page) and Smorty assign or offer you items or websites to review, not Pay Per Post. They make you fight everyone else on an opportunity page for posts and if your computer or connection is not fast enough you miss them. Right now there are only 175 "opportunities" available to write about. They range from $5 to $200+. If you have a low PR blog you will get the ones under $25 with most of them at the $5 mark. Of those 175 opportunities, this blog would only qualify for about 5 of them and all of them have been reserved by other bloggers within seconds of being released on their "opportunity" page.

Many bloggers that are listed with them are so sick of hitting the reload key just to grab an opportunity to write about - all for $5! Pay Per Post has made me become very disillusioned about them. Add to it the fact that after you write your post you have to wait 30 days to get paid for it. So in affect that paid to blog site is allowing their customers (the advertisers) to get a free ride for 30 days.

Smorty so far has done better than Pay Per Post and I like them so much I put a widget on the sidebar. They pay higher than Pay Per Post and you don't have to fight a reload page. They give you offers in your own control panel and the minimum offer price is $6.

I don't do many posts for Blogsvertise since their customers pick and choose what blogs their advertising goes on. I do about 2 a week for $10 each but not on this blog. They like my other blogs which are niche blogs about life, pets or mental health.

In all cases I only do posts that fit in with my blogs. I have a pet blog that I will only have animal related posts on so when they offer car insurance opportunities I decline them.

I would much rather have my blogs be popular and earn money without paid to blog posts but until that day comes I still have to pay the bills.