Revenue Opportunity: Blogging with Smorty

If you would like to explore some monetizing opportunities with your blog (i.e, blog for money, etc.), then sign up for Smorty. Smorty is an online service that gives you the opportunity to get paid for blogging. They basically connect advertisers to us bloggers by providing a good blog advertising system.

Nowadays, Product manufacturers or service providers advertise on blogs for the purpose of visibility and product awareness. Since blogs do provide fresh content they offer unmatched publicity specially when the blogger actually patronizes one of their products. Another advantage of a product being reviewed in blogs are the inbound traffic through link backs to their site where visitors can be converted to actual customers.

On the other hand, bloggers get paid for simply giving honest reviews and opinions about the advertiser's products or services. The only requirement is that the actual post should be at least 150 words in length. Its as simple as that!

How does Smorty differentiate itself from the other similar services?

1. Pay outs are 5 days after your blog post has been approved through your paypal account.
2. Each approved post will earn you a minimum of $6. This can get as high as $100 depending on your Pagerank and Smorty score.
3. Smorty makes use of a unique blogger ranking system. Smorty's calculates it's own smart score system, it's created by combining the following factors 1) Googles PageRank, 2) Alexa Rankings, 3) Return rate of given tasks 4) Approval/Decline ratio of completed tasks and 5) Number of completed tasks. If you have a higher Smorty score, you are more likely to receive more campaign offers and more higher priced campaigns.

Okay, so how do bloggers join?

Joining Smorty is absolutely free. There's no set up and maintainance fees whatsoever. There are a few requirements though:

• Your blog must be indexed by Google and Yahoo
• Your blog must be older than 3 months
• Your blog must not contain any violent, hate related or adult content
• Your blog must be active and have a history of minimum average 2 new posts per week
• The blog must not have duplicate posts or excessive duplicate content

Joining Smorty is a good addition to your revenue stream.
So if you haven't done it yet, you might as well sign up and get paid to blog.

I just joined PayPerPost

I started this blog without really thinking that I will be hooked into it. Though I still don’t have that super huge number of readers or subscribers, I am currently and seriously contemplating on getting my own domain name and web hosting. As most successful bloggers will tell you—it is better to have your own domain from the onset to spare you the trouble when the visitors starts coming in and you have to redirect them to a new domain. Plus, having your own domain really looks more professional than having the .blogspot.com attached to it. However, I would like to get my domain from possible earnings I get blogging. Small goal, I think.

So with that in mind, I looked for some possible income sources for my blog—and there are a lot of them out there. With a quick pick among them, I signed up for Pay Per Post.

Pay Per Post pays bloggers just by blogging about web sites, products, services and companies. Their advertisers are willing to pay you for your opinion on various topics. You just search through a list of Opportunities, make a blog posting, get your content approved, and get paid. It's that simple.

Also, once you’re signed up, you get the opportunity to earn a significant bonus just by making a post about their service. Cool!

Seems like I can register my own domain after all, now what was that domain name I was thinking about?