If you are currently making money online with your blog, especially by writing paid post you really don’t have to be too worried about the income. Just be worried about the consequences 1 year down the road when sponsored post took over your blog entries. Why I said you need not worry is because there are seriously too many Ad networks practicing this model. When I wrote about ReviewMe’s Advertiser marketplace, I was given a heads up on Smorty (thanks kucau), yet another Pay Per Post model.
Quickly I sign up and submit my blog for review. It got approved the afternoon itself. Let’s see what Smorty has in store.
How Smorty works?
Like I’ve mentioned earlier, its pay-per-post style. You grab a campaign, write in your blog and get paid. Here’s some requirement before you get accepted into Smorty:
- 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
Smorty and Payments
As long as the paid entry got approved, you will be paid one week after that. Payment methods, currently is PayPal.
Read more about Smorty on their F.A.Q page.
Verdict
Honestly I’m still not buying this. IMO, the next best paid post based Ad network that comes after PayPerPost is SponsoredReviews. You seriously need to match or be better to be in the competition. Perhaps Smorty is new. Still, its just my personal opinion.
Smorty ranked your blog based on Alexa, Google Page Ranks and some internal ranking based on performance. I scored a 750 in Smorty Score with PR5 and Alexa 23,000+ but still I’m seeing only $4.80 - $6.00 campaigns? That looks quite under promise to me. If you are a Smorty user (perhaps a paid post writter), I’d love to hear your opinion.
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Comments
Phalgun May 5th, 2007
There are many websites popping out with the same aim, i.e. sponsored posts but I don’t think that there are so much advertisers to feed them. But whatever it is I like sponsoredreviews.com because of whom I was able to get some money in my paypal.
ReplyEngLee May 8th, 2007
I have a feeling like betraying my readers if I go for pay-per-post kind of stuffs.
Replypablopabla May 8th, 2007
Well…at least Smorty paid me within a week of my opp taken. That they delivered. As for sponsoredreviews.com, I couldn’t be bothered with them already as all my requests were declined.
ReplyMsmyla November 19th, 2007
Well, I am writing for smorty in my other blog which has a PR6 and I get at least 10 offers a day and one or two of them ranges from 40-48$.
Nod bad. I like them more than PPP
ReplyCrystal January 18th, 2008
I use most of them and Smorty is my favorite by FAR. More money. Gets to paypal faster. More interesting campaigns.
Replylimadang.com January 19th, 2008
Smorty offers very low. but SR,RM make me money like tripple from what we can normally get at Smorty
Replyskfc2o January 27th, 2008
I’ve just been accepted to Smorty, so I’ve no comment. So far I’ve only received 3 opportunities.
ReplyPengyulong Dot Com April 11th, 2008
I’ve made a lot of money, thanks, Smorty.
ReplyAnil Gupta May 13th, 2008
Smorty looks ok to me. I have been getting some paid posting from it. But the payout per post is very less
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