Yesterday I applied for Smorty, a blog advertising network that allows you to blog for money. Smorty is a service connecting advertisers with bloggers. Advertisers advertise on blogs by requesting bloggers to write opinion posts with links back to the advertisers site.

Initial Reaction
I submitted my blog last night and within 2-3 hours, my blog was accepted. I was impressed by as I was able to get under way with my first task that I accepted. After poking around on their website to get to grips with things I found some very useful resources. These included an ‘Easy SEO Guide‘ that will help improve Search Engine Optimization on your website. Smorty also has an affiliate program which I haven’t delved into yet, but others will enjoy the payment you can receive from referring an advertiser to Smorty.

Website

Smorty is very much a “straight to business” website. The two big different colour boxes outline all the information. One box is for advertisers and one is bloggers, and on this contains all the information about what you get and underneath is a description outlining what advertisers and bloggers do using their service. Smorty’s navigation on their homepage is very simple and has all the necessary pages you need equip with FAQ’s that answer any question you need. The blogger and advertiser rules are outlined clearly so you know what you have to do and can do as per their conditions.

Blogger Navigation
The blogger navigation is extremely easy to use and outlines all the information you need to see clearly and all on one page. Your blog rating and profile avatar are displayed in the top left corner and below this, you can also keep track of all the posts that you accept to write about. Below both of these is the bit I like very much. Displayed are your payments from the last 7 days, last months earnings, total earnings and the pending earnings that you will receive. Managing everything you are doing with Smorty is simple when you have two columns right in front of you. One labelled ‘Pending Tasks’ and one labelled ‘New Opportunities’ which help you make sure you have everything organised and when your posts should be completed by and when your done, you can choose another one if it’s available.

Payment
Smorty pay you via PayPal weekly, this is a very nice feature I like. You don’t have to wait a long time to receive your payment. In your control panel you can keep track of payments you have received with a “Payment History” link. I can see $6 per blog post at the minute, thats extra cash for you, especially if your not earning a large amount from your blog!

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