I like to offer you all tips regarding different monetization opportunities because I know how hard it is to find some truly working systems that are playing fair. I would like to introduce you SocialSpark. It is a relatively new system about which some of you may have already heard. So what is this so called SocialSpark all about ? Well, at first it may seem like just another pay-per-post company. Fortunately it is way more than that.

SocialSpark offers you two monetization opportunities: sponsored post and blog sponsorship. What is truly original about it is that it acts just like a social site. Under its wings bloggers and advertisers create an interesting community. Everyone has an ordinary social profile. Depending on what’s your purpose you can choose to have an advertiser or a blogger profile, or even both. For example I have a blogger profile from where I can browse different opportunities launched by advertisers. As I’ve mentioned earlier those opportunities consist in sponsored posts or sponsorships.

A sponsored post is basically a post with which you create buzz about the advertisers product. What I like about SocialSpark is that it keeps in mind that these are blogs that we are talking about and it doesn’t try to create so many restrictions like other systems so that you find yourself writing something without giving the post a personal touch; because in the end, that’s all that blogs are about.

The other opportunity is the blog sponsorship. For an advertiser that wants to specify different aspects regarding the interaction between him and the blogger this can be a method to serve a controlled engagement. For example a sponsorship involves an always-on-top collapsible bar that’s placed at the bottom of your browser window. Depending on your visitors computer performance and settings when they will click the click to show/click to close buttons the ad container will show up smoothly or it will be a pain; especially because it’s huge. For the moment I’m not opting for sponsorships but I’m pretty sure things will change in the near future if they will optimize that code a little bit.

As I was saying, every blogger has a profile to which his blog(s) are attached. After placing the tracking code in your blogs footer, information regarding your blog will be available. You can choose to make it public or private. For example SocialSpark has some great built-in features that can help you have a peek at just a simple traffic overview report of a particular blog or even in-depth reports on analytical data. As an advertiser you can choose the most suitable blog for your launched opportunity based on statistics that provide you relevant information regarding traffic sources, genre and age of the visitors and others. Or instead of browsing through all those reports you can take advantage of the filter-like widget located in the right sidebar on the index page. You can use it to view the blogs that have the highest monthly visitors, most props or highest monthly pageviews.

Another great thing I like about SocialSpark is that it offers bloggers the chance of reserving opportunities and take them when they are available. Unfortunately when a reserved opportunity is available to the blogger he has only 12 hours to complete it. Built-in private messaging system, analysis, ranking, commenting, voting and many other features are available as you discover SocialSpark. Keep in mind that the system is only in it’s beta stage.

Their code of ethics is rather appealing to bloggers and advertisers alike:

  • 100% Audit-able In-Post Disclosure
  • 100% Transparency
  • 100% Real Opinions
  • 100% Search Engine Friendly

If you are looking for an extra income while writing about things you like, feel free to join SocialSpark.
Sponsored by SocialSpark


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