SocialSpark: Is IZEA (PPP) dancing to Google's tune now?

At the ongoing PostieCon event, IZEA's CEO Ted Murphy has announced that in January 2008, they will launch SocialSpark, a “social network” for advertisers and publishers (bloggers). This will serve as a matchmaking network for bloggers and the advertisers.

I managed to get first hand information from Jim Kukral's blog. Jim is one of the speakers at the PostieCon event. He reveals that Ted Murphy told him that with the coming of SocialSpark, every publisher, in order to get paid, will have to ensure that

1. Every link in the paid post is nofollow.
2. A disclosure badge is included in the post.

With the PageRank upheaval of October 2007, many advertizers have resorted to asking publishers not to put a disclosure badge inside the paid post.They have strictly been opting for a a site wide disclosure only for fear of a Google crackdown, I guess. It is quite interesting to note that SocialSpark will enforce the nofollow attribute for every link in the paid post. With that done, publishers will have the freedom to disclose that theirs is sponsored review without any fear of the search giants.Google will surely like this! Is IZEA (PayPerPost) dancing to Google's tune now?

I signed up for PPP!

Almost all bloggers that I have seen in the blogosphere monetize their blogs in one way or another. Needless to say, the main aim behind all this monetization business is to make a little $$$ from the blogosphere as we blog about issues that are relevant to our various themes. A month ago, I came across yet another monetization service known as PayPerPost, courtesy of Gerri's blog. As the name suggests, this service pays you for every sponsored post that you write for them. You have the freedom to blog about issues that you love. For instance, in the recent past, I have blogged positively about ChaCha. If ChaCha had placed a call for bloggers at PPP, and I happened to blog about them the way I did, I would have received some money out of it.

After going through the PayPerPost website for some time, I eventually signed up as a member. My blog was initially rejected because my posts in the past 90 days were less than the required number of 20. After working on this, my blog was approved a week later. Now, I can search through their current opportunities and find out if there is anything really thought provoking and relevant to me and to my readers so that I can write on it. I can now earn a few dollars on a task that I would normally do for free. If you are looking for a way to monetize your blog, I recommend that you visit PayPerPost and submit your site.

On the other hand, if you want to place blog ads , talented bloggers are ready to to review your products and services at PayPerPost :)