The Busy Life of a Single Mom

As many of you readers know, as I’ve been learning to blog about my personal life, I’ve also been exploring some ways to make a little extra money for our family via my blog too.  I’ve experimented with several blogging companies and found that many are not useful (at least for a beginner blogger). I am continually searching for new ways and may have found a new one called SocialSpark.

For those that have been working on paid blogging, you have read about Google knocking everyone down on their rankings who do paid blogging. SocialSpark is an answer to this as they offer 100% transparency. You can use no follow links that hopefully Google won’t punish bloggers for. SocialSpark lists opportunities similiar to that of PayPerPost, but one difference I have already found that I like is that you can be put on a waiting list if the job opps have been taken. I have a horrible time qualifying at PPP it seems because the jobs are taken in just a matter of seconds. Another thing I’ve found that sounds great is that your reviews are encouraged to be honest – good or bad. I know I’ve turned down a few PPP opportunities because after reviewing them closely, I wasn’t comfortable putting a postive spin on a website.

From what I’ve been researching and found about SocialSpark though I have found one thing I don’t like already and that is that a disclosure badge must be present in every paid post. I like personalizing my posts and I don’t like the “advertisey” feel of disclosure badges. I always wonder if people really believe my posts (even though I am careful about only posting my true opinions) when there is a disclosure statement/badge. However, again, hopefully this is something that Google will appreciate which will allow rankings to not be punished.