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Blogger Rules


Rules and Guidelines of Our Service
Payments note: Bloggers generally get paid for blogging 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.
Please see Mini Store FAQ's for payment details on pay-per-click advertising.

Blog Application Rules:
You must have a blog setup with written content in order to use Smorty’s service. Unfortunately we do not provide any hosting.
A Smorty administrator may approve or decline your account and/or blog post for any reason. It is the sole discretion of the administrator.
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
A Smorty administrator may terminate your account at any time. It is the sole discretion of Smorty to do so.
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. Your blog must be older than 30 days and have at least 10 posts to apply.
We are aware that bloggers can buy a high page rank domain and start a new blog. It is against Smorty rules to use a new blog with a high page rank, the page rank must be obtained naturally. If your blog is caught, please be aware that you will be instantly banned and any pending earnings will be lost.

Paid Post Writing Rules:
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.
Your post must be within a domain that has the correct page rank for the task, the posts URL/page it's self may be a lower page rank.
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.
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 write about them them in your post. 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. 
All posts must be written using correct English grammar. If the advertiser finds your post to be using incorrect grammar it will be disputed and removed from your completed posts list.
There is a minimum requirement of 150 words and a maximum of 400 for blog entry approval.
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.
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.
Your blog post must remain online and be permanent.
Smorty does not allow pornographic/adult oriented blogs at this time due to paypal rules regarding adult content.
Anchor texts with backlinks to advertiser must not contain "no follow" tags.
Posts must not be tagged with another companies badge.
You must write a minimum of 40% unpaid relevant content in your blog.
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.
Bloggers caught submitting posts with duplicate content will be banned from the Smorty network for life, there are no excuses. Your pending earnings will be lost in full.
 You must not use an excessive number of links to the sponsors website unless they specifically ask you to.
There must not be any pop up advertising on the posts page.
The anchor text must be part of a sentence, not by it's own.

Pay-Per-Click Rules: (Digxa Mini Store advertising)
Widget must be placed on approved sites only.
Widget may not be advertised by email or any other method outside of your approved site.
You may not use illegal or fraudulent activities such as buying traffic or using bots to generate more clicks.
You must use the widget only in the methods available to you by Smorty.
You must not edit the code in any way.
Click fraud (clicking on your own mini store ads) is monitored. When caught you will be banned.
Smorty reserves the right to ban accounts where fraudulent activity, such as buying traffic, has been used to increase clicks.

Post Exchange Rules:
Post content must be unique. Copied content will be declined automatically.
The post and exact link code must be permanent.
You must write a minimum of 150 words.
The post must be accessible from the home page.
The post must be written in English.
You must use correct spelling and grammar. The better the quality of your post, the higher chance of it remaining undisputed.
You must write related content to the target blogs main topic.
There must be a minimum of one link and only to the target blog.
You must not use a "no follow tag" in the link code.
Post must not be listed in a "sponsored" or "Smorty" category.
The anchor text must be part of a sentence.
Do not use pornographic, hate content or bad language.

 


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