A while back, I signed on with Payperpost as a means to help pay the hosting costs of this website. And for the most part, it did exactly that. Although a few rough patches presented themselves, I was able to take post opportunities and create content on my website that would generate a small, if not helpful, form of income.

A short time later, SocialSpark was launched. My first attempt to get {s} verified and ready for opportunities was met with a denial as the layout (at the time) did not feature content in advertiser friendly way. The overall theme has changed since then, content was once again restored to the front page without a need for click-thru and I redid the process of verification once again.

Needless to say, {s} was verified and my blog was found to be of an acceptably presentable nature.

Allot of people search the World Wide Web looking for ways to monetize their blogs. They look for ways they can create some flow of money from their thoughts and their ideas, essentially transitioning from novice blogger to a paid blogger. And it makes sense – we create content, we populate the Internet with the thoughts and ideas that drive discussion, promote and encourage the exchange of emotion and reaction in the community at large, and help reinforce ideals and belief systems that we hold value in.

We are the voices of a Generation, the sub-leaders of our peers, and molders of literary creation. Out of 108,810,358 distinct websites, 50,000,000 are blogs. Granted both of these numbers were tallied a year apart – blogs in 2006 by Technorati statistics and the website statistics by a Netcraft Web Server Survey in 2007 – but that still speaks volumes for our current state of affairs.

At any given moment, blogs make up nearly half of all websites. And according to Technorati, about 175k new blogs are created every day. As to how reliable that figure actually is would be anyone’s guess, but it still says one basic statement: bloggers are becoming the voice of the internet.

And there are people listening. Advertisers are listening.

SocialSpark follows a standard code of ethics when it comes to opportunities taken for cash. You must be clear that you are being paid for your opinion, and your opinion must be your own. They aren’t trying to change the way that you blog or the way that you think. They simply want to help you get paid to spread the word about whatever topic you choose to promote (or not promote.) Your blog must also be search engine friendly – which, if set-up properly, would be an inherit value of your blog already.

Continue to voice your opinion about the things you enjoy, the things that matter. Start getting paid for it.

(This post was a Sponsored Post by Social Spark.com.)