For w while, all my blogs had quite good page rank then I started doing the paid to post stuff and Google penalized me. I would actually rather have my page rank back than the few dollars I used to get for posting so I quit doing it about 6-months ago.

Recently, I have been cleaning up my sites. Deleting old paid articles, references to the services that pay you to do it and set my site's to 'no follow'. I just applied for reconsideration of all my logs and I will - in due course - let you know how it goes....