Blogging Pays U?

I recently signed up at SocialSpark. In fact, this is my first post resulting from joining the Social Spark community which was recently launched by IZEA the folks behind PayPerPost. But Social Spark is quite different and a whole lot more than just paid post opportunities. As it's name implies, there is definatley a social aspect to this site and service.

The SocialSpark website is beautifully designed and easy to use. You can sign up as a blogger and/or an advertiser. As a blogger you can then submit all of your blogs and within 24 hours see if they are approved. All of mine were instantly approved. Its quite neat that you can then look at your blogs and see their rank and average traffic stats after Social Spark collects that data. Very useful.

There are three types of blogger opportunity in Social Spark; paid posts, sponsorships and sparks. Paid posts work just like PayPerPost except you can queue for a fully subscribed opportunity and if that opportunity opens up they will email you to let you know. You then have 12-hours to write and submit the post. Sponsoships look good too. You sign up for sponsorships for your blog for a short period of time and in effect - it is a pop up on your site. Sparks are the social bit. They are post opportunities that you won't get paid for but these can be charity posts or blog review swaps with other bloggers.

I signed up as an advertiser too. I did so to set up some sparks of my own offering other bloggers a review of their blog if they would review mine. Very useful for increasing technorati and Google PR!

The social side doesn't stop there either - you can browse other bloggers profiles, make friends with them, rank their blogs and all sorts of social networking type stuff.

Being an IZEA product, it comes with great support or customer love. But it also comes with a strong code of ethics too including auditable in post disclosure, transparency, real opinions and it's Search engine friendly. So far I am impressed but I will report back in a few weeks and give an update. Meanwhile, why not view my profile there - yes come visit me here. Look over my other blogs and SIGN UP>>>>