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Rules and Guidelines of Our Service
Blog application rules:
1. You must have a blog setup with written content in order to use Smorty’s service. Unfortunately we do not provide any hosting.
2. A Smorty administrator may approve or decline your account and/or blog post for any reason. It is the sole discretion of the administrator.
3. You can only apply for a blogger account with a root domain. e.g. www.domain.com you can not use www.domain.com/myblog , however you can use subdomains e.g. www.myblog.domain.com
4. A Smorty administrator may terminate your account at any time. It is the sole discretion of Smorty to do so.
5. Blogs that are not indexed, have little or no content, are banned from search engines or contain hate related and crude content may be rejected or put on Probation until corrected.
Blog article rules:
1. All blog posts MUST BE PERMANENT. Bloggers who remove posts after being paid will automatically be declined and will no longer be accepted into the Smorty network.
2. Bloggers generally get paid on a weekly basis only for the approved blog posts. If your payment is late we are still transferring money through paypal, you will get paid but please be patient.
3. Once a campaign has been accepted by the blogger, you have up to 24hrs to submit the post URL in your Smorty admin panel before ownership is given to another blogger.
4. You will be assigned topics for each campaign write your opinion about in your blog. Within your entry you must include anchor text links to the campaigns website URL in your blog. You do not have to necessarily endorse the advertiser's website products or services, just mention them in your blog. It is entirely your opinion to post, however, please keep in mind that the advertiser has the opportunity to dispute each individual post based only on our terms. If your post fits within Smorty's terms then Smorty administrators will still approve your post so you get paid.
5. All posts must be written using correct grammar. If the advertiser finds your post to be using incorrect grammar it will be disputed and removed from your completed posts list.
6. There is a minimum requirement of 150 words and a maximum of 400 for blog entry approval.
7. Your blog post must appear either as one of the recent blog entries on your home page, or be a clear link accessible from your home page. Posts will not be approved if they can not be easily found from your home page.
8. A Smorty administrator may withhold or cancel payment due to a user account at its sole discretion. This will not happen if you run an ethical blog.
9. Your blog post must remain online and be permanent.
10. Smorty does not allow pornographic/adult oriented blogs at this time due to paypal rules regarding adult content.
11. Anchor texts with backlinks to advertiser must not contain "no follow" tags.
12. Posts must not be tagged with another companies badge.
13. You must write a minimum of 40% unpaid relevant content in your blog.
14. Posts must not be placed in a "Smorty" or "Sponsored Posts" category, all posts must be listed under a relevant category to the topic of the post.
15. Bloggers caught submitting posts with duplicate content will be banned from the Smorty network for life, there are no excuses.
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