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BoinkI finally gave in. After so many invites sent in all my email addresses, I finally signed up for
SocialSpark, one of IZEA's innovations aside from PayPerPost. I was pretty hesitant at first because I noticed how different the site is and how it may be too complicated for me. I usually just sign up and get a blog approved but there are a few steps a greenhorn must do before starting to enjoy this website.
First, why should you join
SocialSpark? My answer is, it does add more to your blogging experience. It offers opportunities for bloggers who want to earn more money through their blogs, it has some forums where bloggers can interact, and most importantly, it works as a social networking site for bloggers, where you can add friends, give them props, and drive traffic to your blog.
You get all these in just one site that is
SocialSpark. They also feature:
-100% Audit-able In-Post Disclosure
-100% Transparency
-100% Real Opinions
-100% Search Engine Friendly
However, before you jump right into the bandwagon, I'd like to offer some help in understanding how their approval process works. First is a given: you have to have a blog which preferably has been online for more than 3 months and has updated posts. Here are the steps:
l1. CLaim your blog: This would require you to copy and paste a code onto your blog. This should detect and verify ownership of your blog.
2. Add ITK: I had difficulty understanding what this step required me to do. Basically, you also copy and paste a javascript code onto your blog. This is what they call the Izea Tool kit. This is different from the first code when claiming because an ITK detects the Izea ranks, number of visitors and hits of your blog. In short, it serves another purpose.
3. Verify: This is the part where all you need to do is wait. I am guessing that a lot of people are joining
SocialSpark everyday so my verification took almost two weeks.
The long wait for verification shouldn't be a problem though. This is important only for accepting opportunities as you may not take any without being verified.
However, you may start adding friends, accepting invites, as well as giving them props while the verification is yet to be done. This way, you get to know which advertisers have the most number of opportunities and you can drive other bloggers to your blog/s.
SocialSpark is an excellent site for bloggers who want to monetize their blogs and have fun while doing it.
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Like I said in my previous entry, I was banned from the Social Spark community for 2 weeks. Customer Love emailed me saying that I was soliciting props and have added a considerable large number of members in just a short period of time which may have been a result of having some sort of an automatic script.
Social Spark payments are not automatically transferred to your PayPal account unlike its sister company PayPerPost. You will need to 'cash out' the funds after 30 days from the approval date of the post. I prepared some screenshots for those who have not done it yet:
Don't you just love those sites which make you earn by just giving your opinions? There are tons of survey sites out there. I've written about one of them. As I was looking for more ways to make money online, I found a few blogs which have dNeero surveys.
Here's how it works. When you sign up, you'll be given a few conversations to join. You will answer a few questions - some are required and some are not. The good thing about this is you also get to ask a question. So the next person who answers the survey will have an option to answer your question. You'll earn a few cents by answering but you'll earn more if you paste the code onto your website or blog. It's that easy.
There's a minimum payout amount of $10 and they pay through PayPal. To date, my earnings are still small but I'm getting there. The survey codes have to be posted for 10 days I think. It's better to have it as an individual post though -- that's what I do! I will post the payment proof once I reach $10.
