Blogging For Money

Some of my posts was rejected by Blogitive and that rarely happens. Turns out the reason why this had happened was because I did not put the disclosure message.

You recently submitted the blog posting for approval. Unfortunately this blog posting does not meet our criteria for approval. PLEASE INCLUDE THE FULL SPECIAL DISCLOSURE STATEMENT LISTED IN THE POST INSTRUCTIONS. This blog posting has been placed back in your reserve offers, please correct this posting and submit it again for approval.

So I checked the offers page again and true enough, there was this disclosure message that was required in every blog post from Blogitive.

This blog post was based on information provided by Blogitive. For more information, please visit Blogitive.com.

So has Blogitive gone to full disclosure now?

Well I got a pleasant surprise in my inbox just now. Smorty just sent me payment for the job offer that I did for them. Looks like I am a few USD richer now.

Dear Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi,

Smorty Blog Advertising just sent you money with PayPal.

Payment Details

Subject: Your money has been sent by Smorty to your nominated paypal account.
Custom Note: Smorty

I’ve checked their page just now however, and there are still no advertisers for me. I think that it will take some time before I rely on Smorty as a main source of income for paid blogging.

So after nearly a week, I finally got this confirmation email from Bloggerwave stating that this blog was accepted into their network.

Bloggerwave.com

Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi,

Congratulations!

Your blogger has been accepted by bloggerwave.com

BlogTitle : Blogging For Money
BlogUrl : http://www.ibnjuferi.net

One of the opportunities available (worth $10) was about reviewing their service. I’ll let you know what I think of Bloggerwave when I take up that offer later.

Blog Reviews are undoubtedly a viable way way of getting your message across. With links in blog reviews, search engines like Google will easily pick up those links and you can get listed in these search engines in no time at all. Of course one would need to go to a paid blogging service which offers a way for advertisers to get their links posted on hundreds of blogs. Sponsored Reviews is one such service where you can have links building from various blogs in no time at all to gain traffic and prominence on search engines.

As this blog post describes it, paid blogging is a great way for link building and they have given 101 reasons why this new way of online marketing is good for you and your website in the long run. In addition to the reasons outlined, it should be noted that Google PageRank can be increased with the addition of links on blogs that are relevant to the niche topic. Check out the tips provided for enhancing your link building, you certainly will not regret it.

This post is sponsored by Sponsored Reviews. If you are interested in getting a review for your site, you can visit this page and purchase a review.

According to the Smorty page, you should be able to add multiple blogs to your account. So I looked for that feature but it was not there. I emailed the Smorty team and they replied with the following (very fast too…after two hours):

Hi Menj,

We are currently working on this feature. It should be available within a week or two.

Regards
Smorty Team

I look forward to the feature. I sense that they have great potential compared to their rivals out there.

I just found out about Smorty last night and registered with them for my main blog. Basically its not much different from the other paid blogging networks out there, but a major difference I found is that you can only take one opportunity at a time.

From what I saw, they only had a few review offers and not as many as, for example, Sponsored Reviews or Blogitive. I managed to do one, another job is still in pending and I have not done it yet (planning to work on that tonight). Since I only did one offer, I am not sure how prompt is their payment. However, they claim to pay via PayPal on a weekly basis. Yes, that’s right, you don’t have any choice other than to use PayPal.

They look promising so I will certainly try them out for at least a week before deciding whether to stick to them or otherwise. In any case, they make a good complement to all the other paid to blog networks I am already a part of.