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In my many years of personal & business buying experience, I have been influenced by newpaper & TV advertising in a very limited way. In most cases, I looked for references and their experience of using the product or service. I have followed this more intuitively and less for any other reason. Things have changed and the market supplies have gone global. If I have to buy a new model of 3G phone, a new model of DVD drive or a health gadget/formulation introduced in USA or Japan just a few months before, I now go for an internet search. That has worked very well and not so well at times. At times, I have joined forums to get the feed back and information on products & services used by members of the forum community.

It was round this time, I noticed a new wave spreading all across internet and it was about paid reviews for products & services. This is a healthy trend for informed buying and is being managed by a few leading companies. Smorty.com is one such  company that pays bloggers for reviewing products & services.

Smorty offers get paid for blogging opportunities to bloggers when they review products, services & web sites.

Why : 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.
Slowly growing in my pro-blogger status: In the last 16 weeks, I received 13 reviews and have always been paid in time.

This has been a good and enjoyable experience in my growth to slowly becoming a pro-blogger. I am looking for more opportunities coming my way and writing more interesting and informative reviews for the benefit of readers of my blog.All accepted offers must be reviewed within 3 days policy.
But Smorty offers a good feature that allows a blogger to remove an accepted opportunity before it is expired. If you are unable to complete an opportuinity within 3 days, make sure you remove it by logging into your account. If you don’t and the opportunity expires, your smorty score will drop. To be eligible to get more reviews, you must always complete the reviews before they expire.

Bloggers have the option to mention or not to mention the ’sponsored post’ disclosure at the beginning or end of the post.

As pro blogging is slowly moving up and getting popular with advertisers, Smorty.com has been able to maintain their popularity with bloggers & advertisers alike. Though the no of posts/month continues to be low, reviews are good & payments always in time.

Smorty’s blog advertising services are good for advertisers as they get inbound links to their website, increase in their search engine ranking and more traffic to their web sites. Bloggers are paid & encouraged to write quality posts and that brings interested readers. With the increase in popularity of paid blogging, blog advertising is slowly becoming a populat advertising media worldwide.

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