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By Michael Charge, 19/03/2010 4:35 pm

You may have noticed that over the past couple of months I’ve been writing several sponsored posts about a variety of topics from websites to gigs. Well the service I’ve been using to get paid for all of this is now finally fully launched in the UK.

Ebuzzing is a simple way of linking bloggers wishing to advertise, to advertisers, and it’s been working since 2007. It’s a completely painless sign up for any blogger and provides a mass of opportunity to help you monetise your blog or, and my case, to pay for stuff to review. The campaigns are also varied but you won’t be given anything that doesn’t suit your blog type.

So how do you get started? Simply sign up at the website and enter your blogs details before looking at the available campaigns. Choose one, write an article about it following the brief, send it of for validation, post the validated article and then sit back and watch the money flow in.

There are actually several ways to actually take part in campaigns. Some are simply posts much like this. However there is now a new way – videos. Several video campaigns can be added to the site by embedding them either as a large video or as a banner of several smaller ones (see the pictures above) depending on your choice. This is great, giving you the choice to make the posts fit in with how your site looks, unlike some competitors. Similarly, Ebuzzing articles are all truly transparent. They must all contain a disclaimer in both posts and videos making it perfectly clear that this post is being paid for.

Ebuzzing get rid of the pain it is usually to get paid for blogging and pays better than it competitors on a site like mine. It requires a bit more work as well but when you have the option to set how much you wish to be paid for some article it makes sense. I recommend it to anyone who is blogging.

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By Michael Charge, 16/02/2010 10:13 am

As a personal blogger, you begin to make friends with other blogs and also want to show off the sites you like. At the moment, this requires a big list of websites (like ours in the sidebar) which means time spent tinkering with that can't be used to write more articles. And, in Web 2.0 world based around Twitter and such, it's a bit old fashioned.

A fix for this is SmallRivers, a tool that allows for blogs of the same type to automatically link to each other using a system not unfamiliar to anyone who uses facebook groups. By simply going to www.smallrivers.com and joining a network (without any forms to fill in for sign up), you can add a small line of HTML to your site to produce a box like the one below. This will then advertise other sites in the same network while also adding your site and making it appear on other blogs using the same tools. And that is it! No sign up just one line of code and you're in. Alternatively, if you want to start a new network, you can do with the minimum of fuss.

This system has real promise and could possibly make it easier to find other quality blogs on the internet. It should also help to improve the networking between different bloggers who can then spread ideas among each other. Hopefully these Small Rivers will grow into much larger ones – the system has already been picked up by organisations such as the WWF and many more.

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