Smorty vs. Payperpost

There seems to be an unwritten rule that require bloggers to choose between Smorty and Payperpost. I was just wondering why all (READ: ALL) the writing opportunities I get from smorty indicate that this offer is not available for those who have payperpost articles or payperpost advertisements on their sites. Funny because prior to signing up with payperpost all the offers I got did not have that caveat.

Smorty and Payperpost are only among the few methods available to bloggers who want to monetize their blogs. Smorty pays fast but there are only few opportunities available. Aside from that, most of the opportunities are only worth $6 each. Payperpost waits for one month (I think) before they release your payment but they have varying offers. I even saw an opportunity worth $50 once but the problem here is you have to grab the offer fast (if you can catch them at all) or wait for the next one to come. There are plenty of opportunities in the site but most of them limited to those based in the US and other foreign countries.

I asked the smorty people about this and they responded saying they could not control the requirements of their advertisers. I just feel that something strange is going on here because I checked all the previous offers I got and nothing about the payperpost prohibition was indicated.

Does it mean we bloggers have to choose between Smorty and Payperpost after all?

Why I Love Pay Per Post?

I saw these payperpost affiliate icons while browsing some of the websites and I became interested. Well, anything legit enough that allows me to make additional income interests me, so I browsed further and looked at the paid posts. What made me warm up to the idea of pay per posts is that most of the entries I read seemed to be interesting facts, not just plain advertisements, about products and places.

However, it took me about a two weeks (maybe more?) before I was able to take an Opportunity at payperpost (that means writing offers) since it took sometime before my blog got approved. Kudos to the support team because they immediately got back to me and helped me with my dilemma since I could not get a complete look at the opportunity details.


What I love about this gig is that it allows me to choose which opportunities to take and to write about. A quick look at the various opportunities offered for registered and approved sites made me salivate as there are indeed a lot of opportunities to choose from. Unfortunately, these opportunities are classified and you can only get the opportunities that fits the requirements (which includes blog rank, the hosting site you are using and your location).

I have yet to get paid for this blogging opportunity but judging from the earnings that most of my friends got from their posts, I am looking forward to finally having enough to buy that videocam this year.