PPPadding Their Numbers

Kat, from My Single Mom Life, used to do work for PayPerPost. Back in October 2007 she decided to quit. She went back and forth with “Customer Love” about removing all traces of her blog from their databases. Eventually PPP agreed to remove MSML from the network and assured Kat that not a single trace of her blog could be found on their site.

Yesterday, Kat found out they were bold faced liars. Someone sent her a screenshot of her blog, the one that’s supposed to be erased from the PayPerPost company databases, as PPP Blog of The Day.

But there I am, blog of the day.
How the hell am I blog of the day?
I have not taken a single post for them since the end of September and got my last payment from them in October.
It’s gotta be a random selection because it’s most certainly not based on me taking any posts, I haven’t.
I am not the top earner, middle earner, or even low man on the totem pole, because I don’t work for them.

Amazingly enough, Kat can’t log in to see this for herself. Her account was terminated at her request. But her blog remains one of the “over 100,000″ blogs in the PPP system. She wonders how many more of their “over 100,000″ blogs aren’t really in the system anymore (meaning the bloggers aren’t doing PPP anymore) and I wonder the same thing. How many bloggers have quit or been “banned” from PPP, but whose blogs remain part of their “overall” numbers?

I did PayPerPost on Chipped Polish for, I think, 2 months. Then I stopped. I stopped because of the incredibly offensive mentality of certain folks toward what was happening at the time with Google, PPP and PageRank. I felt like the administrators of PPP were a lot like upper management of Wal-Mart, insomuch as they blew smoke up the asses of certain folks (or paid them handsomely) who then turned around and blew smoke up the asses of other people. If you read the old boards, you could see many regulars quietly and quickly dropping off. I have no idea why that happened or where they went, but their regular postings were soon replaced with others. I didn’t like the vibe of the place and didn’t like feeling like I was doing something dirty by posting for them. So I removed all the code from my blog and went about my business. I already knew that they wouldn’t remove my blog from their system because of a forum posting, so I didn’t try. Now I know it would have been a fruitless effort. My blog is forever going to be part of their numbers. And I don’t work for them.

That is obviously very true for other blogs too. Now there is proof via a screenshot on My Single Mom Life. If they didn’t want to pad their numbers for the benefit of investors and advertisers, then they would have deleted Kat’s blog without a second thought. They would delete any blogs that no longer utilize their “tools”. But they don’t. They can show the big money folks that they really are that popular…just look at the database. They’ve denied this behavior in the past, but now they can’t. Now their automated “Blog of The Day” script pulled up a blog of someone that has very vocally requested removal and been told that “Sure. Your site is deleted.” Guess they’ll have to tweak their script to make sure no more “deleted/inactive/non-approved” blogs get spotlighted. Heh.

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