Blogging For Money

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.

Now this is one really weird bug and I’ve lodged a complaint here. I logged in as usual into my PayPerPost account with my Blogger id (username: menj1980) and strangely enough, the PayPerPost system identified me as an Advertiser and I was taken to the Advertiser interface instead! Even weirder still, I got USD100 credited into my account for making Opps.

ROTFL.

Of course the drawback is that now I can’t even go to the Marketplace and take any of the Opps meant for Bloggers because the system thinks that I am an Advertiser. Actually I am really tempted to use that USD100 in the Advertiser account but I already have an Advertiser account (with a different username). And what happened to all the posts that I’d taken for PPP? I really hope someone at PayPerPost can restore menj1980 back and hopefully none of the Opps that I’ve taken were lost in the process.

I am always on the lookout for any new paid-to-blog service and I just came to know about Bloggerwave this morning. Ironically, I found out about it through this thread on PayPerPost board. According to the Posties who have registered with them, their concept mimicks PayPerPost right to the tacks system, the only difference being that the company which founded Bloggerwave is based in Europe. Does not matter to me, as long as they pay.

So I tried to register for Bloggerwave…but I can’t get myself registered. The reason? I keep getting the same error message for every username that I tried:

The UserName Already Exists.

Huh? Either there is something seriously wrong with their registration system, or I have a doppelganger somewhere in the world.

I finished a job for an advertiser at Sponsored Reviews. It was my first review with Sponsored Reviews, I really hope the advertiser would be pleased and accept it. As it so happens, I didn’t set the bid for the review, it was the advertiser who chose my blog for the review. Strange, but I swear that was what really happened.

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