
Recently I took two different types of opportunities from Socialspark. This site helps blogger to monetize their blogs and you can build a community over here and can drive traffic. If you have read my earlier posts then you can know that I am invited for alpha testing their website. This site is developed with a brand new idea which no other site had been developed until now.
First of all why I think SocialSpark has a big future because, this site uses real rank for determining opportunities. Hence its totally working on its own. Second of all it works only on links with "nofollow" tag hence it does not harm the search engine. I mean to say that this is completely search engine friendly.
Third, it is providing a new type of advertising called "Blog Sponsorship". Here after you accept a sponsorship for certain number of days, your blog will consist of a small bar at the bottom of the browser and when you click the "click to open" button in that bar you can get the details about the one who sponsored your blog on that day. If you see my blog today you can find it. I am also providing a screen shot of that below.
![]() When Closed | ![]() When Opened |
Now coming to the final one which is still not tried by me, its called "Spark" and here you can give opportunities for others but here they are free. Generally this one is developed keeping in mind at the time of situations when bloggers don't get any idea of what to blog about, people can find ideas here.
And here the main advantage is, you can get in touch with advertisers or other blogger which is lacking in Payperpost. You can add reputation to other blogs or profiles too. This site provides a great interactivity and hence it provides 100% transparency and you get 100% real opinions because for every opportunity there will be a bonus and all the bloggers who took the opportunity will be registered to earn that bonus. After that all the bloggers post for this opportunity will be ranked and the post which got position 1 will be allocated the bonus. Hence blogger try to write as good as possible. And coming the post disclosure its 100% Audit-able In-Post and you need to add a small badge at the end of that post. So there is no confusion for our audience that if the post is sponsored or not.On the whole this is a very good idea created by IZEA.
I just wanted to write about this site for my readers who did not get a chance for participating before. But why to be sad about that? Now you don't need to worry coz its has moved to beta stage and hence now you can get into this network and try by yourself.









Wow, this is a little confusing to me. I think I'm going to come back and visit your site a few more times to see how this marketing works.
Do you mean that a blog sponsorship happens on your blog automatically and after the fact you know who sponsored it??
Chris
No, no there will be advertisers in their database and they have different ranges. So, once if I accept an advertiser then his ad pops up and we can also mention for how many days is he interested.
I have been considering signing up for Social Spark but some things had me confused. Thanks for a well written post that cleared them up for me.
Indeed, a nice clarification. But, I am still reluctant to go for it. Let's see what would be your impression after being some time inside the project.