Hi Smortians,
I have submitted similar posts earlier but I need to create a new one about the quality of your blogs after receiving a large number of disputed posts and getting a lot of criticism about the quality of your posts from the advertisers.
Please write original ideas taking into account what the advertiser requested from you. Do not use copy content in your posts. We have a duplicate tool which will catch any copy content. It was created by our engineers, it flags a post with a percentage of duplicate info and then we manually check it. It's sometimes bits and pieces from two posts, it's not always exact sentences right down to the punctuation. And posting a copy content is a reason to ban your blog.
Also do not use auto text softwares..We have received many disputes lately complaining about auto text softwares used in submitted posts.
We try to be fair and do our best to stand up for your posts but in order for us to do this, they must be written in accordance with Smorty rules. Finally please do not ask to unban your blog. We cannot unban a banned blog unfortunately..
J
Friday, November 13, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
The G20 Summit
The event of the week is the G20 summit in London on April 2nd. 19 of the world's largest national economies, plus the European Union (EU) gathers to the summit to take any means necessary in order to revive the economy that is in Global Financial Crisis. The countries are divided on ways to lift their nations from economic misery. The US calls for more stimulus spending and the European countries especially Germany and France
mainly focus on creating new regulations for the Financial System disregarding stimulus packages. Despite these differences, many expect G-20 leaders to make cooperation.
Many people other than protesters.. Thousands have joined together in central London to protest against the G-20 summit. Banks in the Financial district were the main target. Protestors pushed against police barricades outside the Bank of England, shouting "Abolish Money!". At least 8 people were arrested. Some bank employees swapped their suits for jeans not to be noticed by protestors.
mainly focus on creating new regulations for the Financial System disregarding stimulus packages. Despite these differences, many expect G-20 leaders to make cooperation.
Many people other than protesters.. Thousands have joined together in central London to protest against the G-20 summit. Banks in the Financial district were the main target. Protestors pushed against police barricades outside the Bank of England, shouting "Abolish Money!". At least 8 people were arrested. Some bank employees swapped their suits for jeans not to be noticed by protestors.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Post Exchange
Hi,
We have been receiving complaints from some of our bloggers saying that they cannot submit the posts they had written for the Post Exchange because of anchor text problems. The anchor texts created for Post Exchange function need to follow some rules and they are as follows:
1) Because it will help with rankings for your site with the word you choose for your keyword, be sure to select a keyword you want to be ranked well for.
2) Use an anchor text that can be incorporated into a sentence. Find a phrase or a word so that bloggers can write it as part of a logical sentence.
3) Please do not use special characters like "'!{&" when you create an anchor text since some of our bloggers cannot submit these to their blogs.
4) Do not enter more than one anchor text. For example an anchor text like: test prep, college counseling, SAT will be a problem. These need to be separated, otherwise all those will appear as a single link which won't make sense in a blog post.
Till next time,
We have been receiving complaints from some of our bloggers saying that they cannot submit the posts they had written for the Post Exchange because of anchor text problems. The anchor texts created for Post Exchange function need to follow some rules and they are as follows:
1) Because it will help with rankings for your site with the word you choose for your keyword, be sure to select a keyword you want to be ranked well for.
2) Use an anchor text that can be incorporated into a sentence. Find a phrase or a word so that bloggers can write it as part of a logical sentence.
3) Please do not use special characters like "'!{&" when you create an anchor text since some of our bloggers cannot submit these to their blogs.
4) Do not enter more than one anchor text. For example an anchor text like: test prep, college counseling, SAT will be a problem. These need to be separated, otherwise all those will appear as a single link which won't make sense in a blog post.
Till next time,
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Slumdog Millionaire
I finally found an oppurtunity to see Danny Boyle's last movie Slumdog Millionaire. Since there were many positive critics and Danny Boyle was one of my favorite directors with his hit movie Trainspotting, i had great expectations before watching the movie. I guess because of these facts i found it a little overrated. But nevertheless I recommend this movie to everyone.
This movie is already announced as the movie of the year by many movie critics with its screenplay, editing and most of all never slowing tempo. Slumdog Millionaire won 4 Golden Globes including Best Motion Picture and best director categories. It has another 26 wins from different festivals like British Independent Film Awards, Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards and National Board of Review.
Slumdog Millionaire tells the story of an orphan from the Mumbai slums who is one question away from winning the jackpot on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" when he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. The screenplay is adapted from the novel of Vikas Swarup, which is considered as a good piece of literarture as well. I should mention that the original sound track of the movie composed by A.R. Rahman, has some cool tracks.
Friday, February 13, 2009
How To Build A Successful Blog
Today, I would like to give you some advice on building a successful blog.
1. The first important thing is to place an unforgettable image to the header of your blog. This will make a lasting impression on first time visitors.
2. Secondly and most importantly, write posts that are orginal. You need to have content that will take people's interest. You must remember not to copy content from other sites or sources while writing your posts related to the topic or category of your blog.
3. You need to have one topic or category selected for your blog. Please try your best to publish your posts related to this one topic/category. Write a lot of posts and explanations regarding this topic. Try to read and reply all comments written for your posts. You can also visit other blogs and write comments for the posts giving the URL of your blog just to bring more readers to your blog on related topics.
4. Adding an image or a visual element to your posts will help you to describe what you are saying in a better way and in a better theme, but don't add to many images since it may ruin your focus on content and load times.
Keeping your blog active is another thing you must keep in mind. Be sure to write few times a week, leaving your blog without making any updates will hurt your Search Engine Optimisation.
J
1. The first important thing is to place an unforgettable image to the header of your blog. This will make a lasting impression on first time visitors.
2. Secondly and most importantly, write posts that are orginal. You need to have content that will take people's interest. You must remember not to copy content from other sites or sources while writing your posts related to the topic or category of your blog.
3. You need to have one topic or category selected for your blog. Please try your best to publish your posts related to this one topic/category. Write a lot of posts and explanations regarding this topic. Try to read and reply all comments written for your posts. You can also visit other blogs and write comments for the posts giving the URL of your blog just to bring more readers to your blog on related topics.
4. Adding an image or a visual element to your posts will help you to describe what you are saying in a better way and in a better theme, but don't add to many images since it may ruin your focus on content and load times.
Keeping your blog active is another thing you must keep in mind. Be sure to write few times a week, leaving your blog without making any updates will hurt your Search Engine Optimisation.
J
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Rafa in 5
Hi there,Last weekend there was an historic competition in Australia between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal became the first male Spaniard ever to win Australian Open in a final that lasted 4.23 hours. There was a huge lead up, by thousands of fans, to the final at Melbourne Park between Rafa and Roger Federer since these were two of the greatest tennis champions of all time. Rafa was looking for his 6th Grand Slam victory in 17 appearences and Roger was looking for his 14th title which is the record-equalling one with Pete "Pistol" Sampras. It was amazing to see these two champions giving their best to win the title in a game that lasted 5 sets.
Rafa won this exciting the game 7-5, 3-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-2. Federer was unable to speak, he tried to force back the tears but couldn't manage. Rafa is winning majors at a faster rate than Federer at the same age, faster than anyone except Bjorn Borg. Rafa now has a chance to make a calender Grand Slam, which can be a historical achievement since there are only 2 players who have done this before. (Don Budge 1938 and Rod Laver 1962&1969). In this modern era there is only one player who completed a Career Grand Slam on four different surfaces: Andre Agassi.
This game will be one of the classics but will not beat the final they played at Wimbledon last year which is considered to be the greatest game in history.
J
Friday, January 23, 2009
Disputed Posts
Dear Smortians,
We have been receiving many emails from the advertisers using our service concerning the posts you submit for their campaigns. I need to inform you that most of these emails are complaining about the quality of the posts that are written. Some of the advertisers even try to cancel their campaigns considering the posts "pure spam", asking for refunds. We find it hard to stand up for some of the posts written since most of these advertisers have some right in their claims.
After receiving such emails, I have decided to write a post to remind you to be more careful about your posts. Try to write original things which will not disappoint any advertisers. To avoid any disputes please use correct English grammar and follow the instructions stated in your task.
Till next time,
J
We have been receiving many emails from the advertisers using our service concerning the posts you submit for their campaigns. I need to inform you that most of these emails are complaining about the quality of the posts that are written. Some of the advertisers even try to cancel their campaigns considering the posts "pure spam", asking for refunds. We find it hard to stand up for some of the posts written since most of these advertisers have some right in their claims.
After receiving such emails, I have decided to write a post to remind you to be more careful about your posts. Try to write original things which will not disappoint any advertisers. To avoid any disputes please use correct English grammar and follow the instructions stated in your task.
Till next time,
J
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Inauguration Concert
Hi,
Today, I would like to talk about an event which took place on 18/01/2009 Sunday. The stars were in Washington DC to celebrate Barack Obama's coming inauguration. The Boss, Bono, Garth Brooks, Shakira, Beyonce, Sheryl Crow, Josh Groban, James Taylor and U2 were on the stage to perform. George Lucas, Tiger Woods, Tom Hanks, Samuel L. Jackson and Forrest Whittaker were among half a million people who went to the concert at the Lincoln Memorial. The atmosphere was truely impressive.
The Boss's "The Rising", Sheryl Crow & Herbie Hancock's "One Love" and especially U2's "Pride (In the Name of Love) -the band's dedication to Martin Luther King, were extraordinary. Bono's "This is not just an American dream also an Irish Dream, a European Dream, an African Dream, an Israeli Dream...and also a Palestinian dream..." quote was one of the best parts of the concert. Actually this was the only remarkable political comment of the concert besides the presence of some iconic figures from the world of politics and entertainment
Monday, December 15, 2008
New Campaign Notice
Hi There,
It's been nearly a month since my last post. Emails we have received during this time are mainly about New Campaign Notices that are sent via email. There are a large number of Smortians asking where the task is located on the admin panel for New Campaign Notices. Some bloggers even completed their posts after they recieved the email and sent us post URL's, expecting to be paid for their posts.
I need to inform you that you have to login to your admin panel to accept the task, right after you receive an email about New Campaign Notices. The system sends a notice to each blogger automatically when a new campaign is submitted. This does not mean that the task is given to you. You need to login to accept it before others do. And if there are no tasks available when you login to your admin panel, this indicates that all of the tasks are taken by other Smortians.
Please do not write any posts before accepting a task from the New Tasks section of your admin panel.
Talk to you Soon,
It's been nearly a month since my last post. Emails we have received during this time are mainly about New Campaign Notices that are sent via email. There are a large number of Smortians asking where the task is located on the admin panel for New Campaign Notices. Some bloggers even completed their posts after they recieved the email and sent us post URL's, expecting to be paid for their posts.
I need to inform you that you have to login to your admin panel to accept the task, right after you receive an email about New Campaign Notices. The system sends a notice to each blogger automatically when a new campaign is submitted. This does not mean that the task is given to you. You need to login to accept it before others do. And if there are no tasks available when you login to your admin panel, this indicates that all of the tasks are taken by other Smortians.
Please do not write any posts before accepting a task from the New Tasks section of your admin panel.
Talk to you Soon,
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Dear Smortians,
There are actually two points that I want to bring to your attention today.
The first issue is; we have been receiving news from our advertisers that some of the bloggers are removing the posts they have written from their blogs. We want to remind you that all posts you have written for Smorty are permemant; which means that you can never remove them. We have a software checking the blogs regularly for this kind of behavior; and penalizing the blogger, all payments will be removed from future earnings. I don’t really see the point of making a quick $6 and never posting again. Please read the Smorty rules and FAQ’s before you accept any tasks and avoid removing posts.
The other thing is an update of another spam blog site which is: blogsky.com. They actually are the same people that made blogfa.com. Needless to say, we are banning all the blogs ending with this one also.
Take care and have fun blogging :)
Jen
There are actually two points that I want to bring to your attention today.
The first issue is; we have been receiving news from our advertisers that some of the bloggers are removing the posts they have written from their blogs. We want to remind you that all posts you have written for Smorty are permemant; which means that you can never remove them. We have a software checking the blogs regularly for this kind of behavior; and penalizing the blogger, all payments will be removed from future earnings. I don’t really see the point of making a quick $6 and never posting again. Please read the Smorty rules and FAQ’s before you accept any tasks and avoid removing posts.
The other thing is an update of another spam blog site which is: blogsky.com. They actually are the same people that made blogfa.com. Needless to say, we are banning all the blogs ending with this one also.
Take care and have fun blogging :)
Jen
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
UPDATES AND NEW STUFF
Hi!!!
I know you are not used to getting 2 posts in a row from me, but wanted to suprise you all J
I have an update to give on the topic below.
I have received the information that Turkish authorities have removed the bann on blogspot sites as of yesterday. So all blogger.com blogs can be viewed and updated from Turkey.
And another thing is; I saw some of you guys have complained about our customer service and not being able to receive as many offers as you did in the past. Well, I have informed our customer support about your compaints and they have informed me that they are answering all emails they receive from you guys, unless the answer is not in our rules/FAQ’s sections. As to the offers; we are releasing the campaigns to you as soon as we receive them from the advertisers. Yes, there may be a little decrease of campaigns nowadays; however there still are posts being written, campaigns being published. Please understand as our network grows, the number of campaigns may stay the same, so obviously to you guys it might look like less tasks are available.
Above all, I understand some of you guys have concerns about Smorty’s future. Well, beleive it or not, we were, are and will be always here as long as we have the support of you guys on our back.
See you all soon..
Jen
I know you are not used to getting 2 posts in a row from me, but wanted to suprise you all J
I have an update to give on the topic below.
I have received the information that Turkish authorities have removed the bann on blogspot sites as of yesterday. So all blogger.com blogs can be viewed and updated from Turkey.
And another thing is; I saw some of you guys have complained about our customer service and not being able to receive as many offers as you did in the past. Well, I have informed our customer support about your compaints and they have informed me that they are answering all emails they receive from you guys, unless the answer is not in our rules/FAQ’s sections. As to the offers; we are releasing the campaigns to you as soon as we receive them from the advertisers. Yes, there may be a little decrease of campaigns nowadays; however there still are posts being written, campaigns being published. Please understand as our network grows, the number of campaigns may stay the same, so obviously to you guys it might look like less tasks are available.
Above all, I understand some of you guys have concerns about Smorty’s future. Well, beleive it or not, we were, are and will be always here as long as we have the support of you guys on our back.
See you all soon..
Jen
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
NEW THINGS TO BE SHARED
Hey you all!!!
It’s been ages since my last post. I have got some news for you which I think is important..
The most important news that I have is about blogs with blogfa.com extensions. We are not acceptings blogs with this extension any longer because it is plainly spam software. We are banning the ones that have applied and were previously approved. So, my advice is, don’t use blogfa.com blogs and apply to Smorty. Your blog will eventually be banned.
The second news I have is, even though it won’t make a big difference for most of you, blogspot.com extension is now banned within Turkey. So any viewers/authors from Turkey cannot view the blogspot.com sites.
Jen
It’s been ages since my last post. I have got some news for you which I think is important..
The most important news that I have is about blogs with blogfa.com extensions. We are not acceptings blogs with this extension any longer because it is plainly spam software. We are banning the ones that have applied and were previously approved. So, my advice is, don’t use blogfa.com blogs and apply to Smorty. Your blog will eventually be banned.
The second news I have is, even though it won’t make a big difference for most of you, blogspot.com extension is now banned within Turkey. So any viewers/authors from Turkey cannot view the blogspot.com sites.
Jen
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
WARNING!!!
We have been informed that, a message is being sent to some of our bloggers (by email or to their blogs) asking for paid reviews of a website, the offending site is addressed as
We, as the Smorty Team, would like to inform all our bloggers that, neither the message nor the website belong to us.
Please help us keep free from scams!
Jen.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
GOOGLE LAUNCHED CHROME!!
Hey guys!!! It has been quite a long time since my last post.. How are you all doing? Are you all finished with preparations for the new school year? Of course I am talking about the ones that have kids going to school, or ones that are students... Well, I wish you all the best in this new schooling year...
In today’s post, I’d like to talk about a new release from Google. Some of you might have information on it, but it is called Google Chrome and it is their new browser. Those of you who are bored of explorer or firefox; Google Chrome is the new open source browser. I have downloaded it, and started to use it. I can say that it is a lot faster than explorer. Google is saying that they have relased the beta for windows and are working on versions for Mac and Linux.
If you are interested in getting further information, you can login to Google’s Blog which is:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html
They even have a comic link available in the blog which explains the making of Chrome.
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html
I am using this browser at the moment. And I have to say it is very useful, handy and most importantly FAST!!! Maybe you’d want to give it a try??
Jen
Monday, August 25, 2008
Image link codes
Hi there, I've noticed there have been some difficulties with adding images with links and alt text to the advertisers. Here's a quick sample of a complete image link code which may help some of you when all you get is a broken image.
Sometimes blog softwares can be difficult to get right with these, so if you just enter this code with the correct bits filled in to your blog HTML then it should display fine.
Sometimes blog softwares can be difficult to get right with these, so if you just enter this code with the correct bits filled in to your blog HTML then it should display fine.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
SECOND GATHERING
It had been only a few weeks since our last gathering but, when you have that much fun, trust me you want to do it again. So, we agreed to have dinner at a very nice restaurant with the whole team. This time, attending meant quite a lot with another manager’s presence in town. Actually there was nothing so different than our last meeting. We had wonderful food, drinks and again, talked nothing about the work which makes this type of gatherings so great!! For the ones that were missing, we took pictures of some delicious food we ate too :) Just to make them jealous and make sure that they will be there with us next time.. Did you manage to get together at all yet? Let me know.. See you all later... Jen
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
DIGXA PAYMENTS
Hi Everyone!!
In today’s post, I want to clarify a point about Digxa Payments as I have been informed by the support team that there are a lot of emails about this.
When you have the Digxa widget in your blog, you know that you get commission for the click through based on your keywords (if the Javascript found any keywords in your blog)
Payments for this “pay-per-click” system is again done through paypal, but is done when you write a post. So, if you don’t take any assignments and don’t write any posts, you also will not be paid for the Digxa clicks. As you know, all this is done by masspay system. So we are not able to send Digxa payments seperately. Mass pay charges a min fee for every payment to bloggers and unless you make a post then the fees are often higher than your commissions so we had to do it.
Thank you all very much for your understanding and support.
Jen
In today’s post, I want to clarify a point about Digxa Payments as I have been informed by the support team that there are a lot of emails about this.
When you have the Digxa widget in your blog, you know that you get commission for the click through based on your keywords (if the Javascript found any keywords in your blog)
Payments for this “pay-per-click” system is again done through paypal, but is done when you write a post. So, if you don’t take any assignments and don’t write any posts, you also will not be paid for the Digxa clicks. As you know, all this is done by masspay system. So we are not able to send Digxa payments seperately. Mass pay charges a min fee for every payment to bloggers and unless you make a post then the fees are often higher than your commissions so we had to do it.
Thank you all very much for your understanding and support.
Jen
Friday, August 1, 2008
FORFEIT BUTTON
Hi Everyone!!
We have got news for you! As you know, when you write a post on behalf of Smorty, you have to keep the post up in your blog permantently and as you know, we do have a software that is checking the posts regurlarly.
Some of you see a warning on your admin panel about missing posts from time to time. There may be numerous reasons for missing posts such as: your blog may have been deleted by the provider, your post may be deleted, the anchor link could be curropted etc. You will be asked to resubmit the posts, and if in any case you cannot re-submit the posts, you now have the option to just press this “forfeit button" and delete the missing posts from Smorty’s database. This will remove the value of these posts from your future payments. You can then continue posting without this interruption.
See you all next week!!
Jen
We have got news for you! As you know, when you write a post on behalf of Smorty, you have to keep the post up in your blog permantently and as you know, we do have a software that is checking the posts regurlarly.
Some of you see a warning on your admin panel about missing posts from time to time. There may be numerous reasons for missing posts such as: your blog may have been deleted by the provider, your post may be deleted, the anchor link could be curropted etc. You will be asked to resubmit the posts, and if in any case you cannot re-submit the posts, you now have the option to just press this “forfeit button" and delete the missing posts from Smorty’s database. This will remove the value of these posts from your future payments. You can then continue posting without this interruption.
See you all next week!!
Jen
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
GOOGLE PR UPDATES
Google has once again updated the Page Rank structure today. So some of you may see your PR went down, and some of you saw it went up. In today’s post, I want to point out the facts that can affect your PR.
As there are numerous topics in the forum about this, I would like to bring some points to your attention just one more time:
* DO NOT buy PR ranked domain names. Google figures out real quick that this is fake. This will only end up wasting your money and time.
* Submit your blog to relevant directories that make one way links
* Update your blog regularly with unique content
* Trade links with other relevant bloggers
* Make blog visits and leave comments that are worth reading and that would bring the reader back to your blog
* Submit your blog to free search engines.
These are some of the ideas that I can give for now. Be an honest blogger, write honestly and don’t fall for “if you pay us this amount, we will make your PR higher” type of fraudilent activities. Be honest and have fun!!
Jen
Friday, July 25, 2008
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL TOURING AUSTRALIA
Hi Everyone,
In today’s post, I want to give those of you in AU or will be in November, 2008 an information about an event that will be held in Brisbane.
It is “Cirque Du Soleil”, as for me it is the most amazing and enchanting stage art show I have ever seen. I never had the chance to see it live, however, a friend of mine visited the Amsterdam show called “Varekai” in February and told me that it was wonderful and anyone who has a chance should definetly see it. It is a lifetime experience. A “must do” thing definetely!
They started their tour in AU and are at the moment in Sydney with their show called “Dralion” which is also one of my favorites. (But I also adore; Alegria, Varekai, Quidam and La Nouba) They will be in Canbera in October 2008 and will be in Brisbane in November with the same show.
So if you are in one of these cities in the AU, please do make time for yourself and your loved ones, and visit the show. I am very sure that you will love it and become addicted to it as I am at the moment. I would like to thank my brother who introduced me to this beautiful act couple of years ago. Beautiful music, wonderful colours, perfect performance... Everything is great. Take my word!!
For more information on tour programs, shows and tickets; you may visit www.cirquedusoleil.com
Please do share your thoughts with me after the show.
See ya!
Jen
In today’s post, I want to give those of you in AU or will be in November, 2008 an information about an event that will be held in Brisbane.
It is “Cirque Du Soleil”, as for me it is the most amazing and enchanting stage art show I have ever seen. I never had the chance to see it live, however, a friend of mine visited the Amsterdam show called “Varekai” in February and told me that it was wonderful and anyone who has a chance should definetly see it. It is a lifetime experience. A “must do” thing definetely!
They started their tour in AU and are at the moment in Sydney with their show called “Dralion” which is also one of my favorites. (But I also adore; Alegria, Varekai, Quidam and La Nouba) They will be in Canbera in October 2008 and will be in Brisbane in November with the same show.
So if you are in one of these cities in the AU, please do make time for yourself and your loved ones, and visit the show. I am very sure that you will love it and become addicted to it as I am at the moment. I would like to thank my brother who introduced me to this beautiful act couple of years ago. Beautiful music, wonderful colours, perfect performance... Everything is great. Take my word!!
For more information on tour programs, shows and tickets; you may visit www.cirquedusoleil.com
Please do share your thoughts with me after the show.
See ya!
Jen
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