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I have been building my online websites, forums, shopping carts for the last one year.
I started working on optimising my web sites to get more traffic. To increase traffic coming from search engines, I setup  Blogs & RSS feeds, that is becoming a better & fast way to increase traffic & page rank. I  tested & optimized templates, posting regularly, building RSS feed and submitting rss feeds in Yahoo, MSN & Google.
It was around this time I heard of smorty.com. It offers get paid to blog opportunities to bloggers for reviewing  online products, services & web sites.

URL: http://www.smorty.com/ 
Why: http://www.smorty.com/  is a blog for money opportunity for bloggers and online businesses can advertise on blogs to increase their link popularity, get traffic & improve page rank.
Getting approved: I signed up at http://www.smorty.com  and submitted my blog http://www.articlefarms.com  for approval. I had been posting regularly for more than 3 months & getting my blog  approved at smorty was sure a step forward in my blogging efforts.
In the last 6 weeks, I received 9 reviews and have always been paid in time.
Sometime around 4th week, I accepted 2 opportunities & missed to review them before the completion  date. 
Then 2 of my reviews were rejected in 5th & 6th weeks as they did not match the requirements of the adverisers and I did  not get a second chance. That is OK, but I   think a second opportunity  to the blogger to update the review will be a good step.

This resulted in a drop in my smorty score & no of reviews coming my way.
I am waiting for more opportunities coming my way.

All accpted offers must be reviewed within 2days & 22 hours.
If you don’t, the opportunity expires and your smorty score also drops. If you want more reviews, make sure you complete the reviews before they expire.

Disclosure:
Smorty gives the option to the blogger to mention the ’sponsored post’ disclosure and is not compulsory.

Pros :
I have a high & positive rating for smorty.com with good reviews & automatic prompt payments. 
Advertisers get inbound links to their website, increase in their rank and traffic. Bloggers are encouraged to write quality posts and that brings interested readers.

Cons:
The compltetion time for the review is 2 days 22 hours. 5 days may be better and more convenient for bloggers.

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