Smorty: My First Opportunity

This is my second post for my Smorty Trail blogging. They approved my blog last November 14, 2008 and today, November 23, 2008, I have taken my first 2 opportunity but pending for review.

Honestly, At first I was discouraged to continue my trail in smorty because every time I checked smorty, I did not see any available opportunity for me. I wonder what is happening to this blog marketing site, is it down or not.

One of the biggest mistake that I ever made is that, I did not login everyday or did not check many times a day as I did in my other blog marketing site.

TODAY, I tried again, to my surprised, I saw 7 available opportunity for me all are for $9 each! So accepted one at a time. We can not reserved an opportunity but instead we must make a post and submit first before taking another one. The minimum number of words is 150 and a maximum of 400 for blog entry approval. You have 24 hours to make your post other paid blog takes 12 hours.

So guys, if you have smorty, keeping checking for your opportunity and if you have no smorty yet, sign up and enjoy blogging.

ViewBug.com : Photo, Video and Music Contest

Viewbug sponsored photo, video and music contest weekly. One thing that I like about this site is that they have there own judging panel based on the artistic composition, creativity and originality of the art. Unlike other contest site that the viewers will vote or rate and some participants will just asked their friends or family member to vote and it make the world UNFAIR!

Members can upload as many files as they want. Winners will be paid by paypal and will be announced every Monday and will be paid within 1 -3 days! To know more about Viewbug.com, read the quote below:

We are a small team of young, independent and creative individuals who are
committed to offering a collaborative online environment that allows our members
to win cash prizes. We promote creativity and award originality and quality. By
providing a safe back up for media files, we allow our users to share their art
in a fun and rewarding way. We offer many opportunities to win money, which
motivates users to interact with our team and community.
ViewBug’s mission
is to continually give back to the community and our members, who are the ones
that keep the site going.

Top Photo Contest Earners













Top Video Contest Earner













Top Music Contest Earners

Actually, I uploaded a photo for the contest and here it is: Hot Love Birds

Paying Post: Referral Updates

This is my second post for my Paying Post Trail. I wrote an article about Paying Post: New Get Paid to Blog Site. I have some updates to share:

• They Launched a new affiliate program Advertise on PayingPost blog network .
• Affiliates earns $15 for each advertiser that creates a campaign.
• Referral pays you $15 per referral by posting their 125/125 banner on your site and when the referees first blog is reviewed approved and accepted.
  

Based on my observation, I noticed that the number of advertisers was increased and each day more and more bloggers are signing up. There are few things that I would like to emphasise:

• Under my Account, the Google Page Rank is 0, the truth is I checked my PR and it's PR 2 for my Aloha GEMS site, I do not know what's wrong with their software. My payperpost account is PR 2 and all other blog marketing sites that I joined. (Solution: I login to my account in payingpost -> my blogs -> update my accounts and then my PR 2 appeared. Yay!)
• They need highly qualified bloggers. For instance: if you read the requirements under each post, they require higher Page Rank and Alexa Rank.
• I sometimes noticed that Blogspot and other domain are excluded. This is also true in other blog marketing sites.
• Always see 300 maximum words for $5.
• I found out that some advertizers required Google Rank of 1 - 2 or more. But Take note: They required an Alexa rank between 200,000 - 399,999 . What is your Alexa Rank ? Mine is around more than 2,000,000. (Updates: my Alexa Rank is more than 1,000,000, yay!)
  
  But I will still keep visiting this page.....
  Below are some of Paying post banners:
  
  
  
  
  

My First Cash-out from Payperpost and SocialSpark

It's been a month now since I successfully availed opportunities from Payperpost and its sister company Socialspark, they are both owned by Izea, Inc. And Both pays their successful bloggers monthly.



To cash - out at SocialSpark:

1. Login.


2. Look for Account button -> manage my finances


3. Blogger Payout Page will appear


4. Look at the account snapshot - you may click cash out when your current account balance is at least $20.


5. Check your Paypal

To cashout from Payperpost

They will send you an email to check you Paypal account once they successfully deposit your earning day by day, depending on the date where the opportunity/ies taken.

Check Paypal regularly to update your finances, to monitor your earning from blogging.

Below are my online earning from blogging, joining video contest and ebay. This proves that you will really earn online but this should not be your main source of income, just a sideline or part time for extra $. How much did you earn online so far?

Paying Post: New Get paid to Blog Site

When I was reading my Google AdSense, I was tempted to click for this ad, Paying Post. If you are familiar with Payperpost, Social Sparks, it works the same way. Bloggers are being paid for website reviews, product reviews, services, companies and much more.

I like their blogs, very informative, you must visit it.

My Aloha Gems blog was also approved because I have PR2, when I first applied, I was denied. They also replied quickly to your queries. I have explored their opportunity page, there are only few. The story I told myself is that this site is just new and still looking for more advertisers and bloggers. At first, I do not have qualified opportunities since the available opportunities at that time was for Google PR 5 or more. But when I login again, I found one opportunity for me, I am qualified but reserved for other bloggers. In short, I still did not availed it.

I will just keep visiting on this site to see some development in the future. And also I like reading their blogs.

Follow my Paying Post Trail for more updates:

Bidvertizer Launched New Referral Program

Bidvertiser has the following features:

Advertise across thousands of websites on a pay per click basis
1. Browse our categorized directory of websites
2.Select the appropriate ones for your business
3. Set your desired geographic targeting
4. Set your pay per click bids
5. Your ads are up and running!

I joined Bidvertiser for referral program last November 8, 2008. I've found out that their referral program is for advertisers who might click and signup for advertisements in your site and you will start earning depending on the amount the spent. It does not apply to websites or weblogs with slower topic but it is still worth trying. Try everything on the web and see what works with you.

I received an email from them dated November 14, 2008 with a subject 'Referral Program Launched' and the content is quoted below:

Now you can earn even more with BidVertiser!

Our new referral program allows you to increase your earnings by directing users to signup with BidVertiser.

Simply place a Referral button on your site and you will start earning money whenever a user clicks on your button and signs as an advertiser or a publisher:

When a user signs as an advertiser and first spends $10, we'll credit your account with $5.When that same advertiser spends $50, you will be credited with an additional $20.

When a user signs as a publisher and first earns $10, we'll credit your account with $10. When that same publisher earns $50, you will be credited with an additional $40.

To continue, login to your account and click the "Referral Program" link.

To sum it up, they have just launched the referral program for publishers not only for advertisers. They will help publisher to monetize their blogs when anybody will signup.

I tried it in my new blog now and see how things work.

Smorty : Approved my Blog

Smorty is another blog marketing and blog advertising site like Payperpost, SocialSpark, Blogvertise and others.

Smorty has the following features:

Get paid for publishing.
Publish pay-per-click advertising on your blog to generate residual income.

Get paid for blogging.
Write your opinion about peoples products and services to turn your daily blog updates into money.

Smorty pay directly to your PayPal account. Apply with multiple blogs to generate higher income.

-Write your opinions or publish ads
-Earn top Dollars
-Select subjects that interest you
-Publish in multiple blogs to earn more
-Build interesting, unique content in your Blog
-Make residual money from your blog

The trouble with Smorty is that your blog will not be approved if your Google Page Rank is Zero. I registered to Smorty last September 4, 2008 and got an email with a subject, 'Your Blog has been Declined' last October 21, 2008.

Unfortunately your blog was declined due to the following reason(s).

Google Page Rank 0
Not enough indexed
pages

Once you fix these errors you can
re-enter your blog(s) from your admin panel under the My Account section.
Smorty

Lesson:
I need to make more posts and increase my blog traffic.

Last November 14, 2008, I noticed that I have many qualified opportunity in Payperpost, when I checked my blog status, I saw a PR 2 in the box where my blog URL is located. Then I tried PR checker and confirmed that my Google Page Rank is 2.

So, I login to Smorty Yesterday and updated my profile, finally got an email with 'your blog has ben approved' subject.

Now my Smorty Trail Starts!

Earned Blog Traffic: Google Page Rank 2

PageRank is Google's way of deciding a page's importance. It matters because it is one of the factors that determines a page's ranking in the search results. It isn't the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but it is an important one. Google Page Rank is also known as PR.

Payperpost is one of the blog marketing sites that requires PR although even if your Google Page rank is zero, you can still avail opportunities from the advertisers who does not requires PR. BUT, if you PR is higher you will be qualified to have more opportunities and higher $$$ amount offered.

My Aloha GEMS weblog was launched last July 9, 2008. And now, November 13, 2008, finally got Google PR 2, four months! I have done readings about PR, and Google will update a page rank 3 -4 times a year and people don't know when.

While checking my Payperpost opp, I wonder why I have white opp symbol (qualified). I was surprised when I looked at my blog, I saw that my PR is 2. That answers my questions. Having a PR is a great thing because it means that the higher the PR, the more opp to take.

My personal reasons why my traffic was increased (Google PR 2):

1. I submitted or add my blog URL to Google and some other search engines.


2. I posted unique topics in my blogs when I think that people will Google it.


3. I posted the most effective keywords in my post Title.


4. I invited bloggers for exchange links. People with higher PR helps to increase your traffic.


5. I submitted my blog to other social networking sites.


6. I have technorati, blogcatalog, mybloglog, topblogsites that drives traffic to my blog.


7. I added a cbox or shoutbox in my blog, so people can easily leave messages and more visits everyday.


8. I posted in forums where I can write my blog URL in my signature.


9. I updated my blogs daily.


10. I made posts that build readers interest to visit again.


11. I made comments to other blogs that also build a back link to my site.

Check you Google Page Rank.

Work From Home Options

This is an exciting vidoe to to watch for those who are seeking work from home. Work from home salary ranges from $8 -$12 per hour and remember you are just working at home, no driving, prescribed suit/dress to wear, you are paid in your breaks, and just around your home. Spend your time wisely and start earning.

LoudLaunch: Paid Blog Updates

I signup up at Loudlaunch last November 4, 2008 but almost 10 days now and my status is still pending. I wonder how long they will approved, declined or reject an application. Is LoudLaunch still on business?

In few day, my questions will be answered. So, for those who are using LoudLauch, we need you expertise and for those who are about to start using it, just follow my LoudLaunch Trail for more updates.