IZEA Answers SocialSpark Direct Publishing Questions

13 July, 2010 - 01:40 PM - 16 Comments

Ted Murphy the CEO of IZEA creator of SocialSpark, PayPerPost, WeRewards, InPostLinks, Sponzai and SponsoredTweets among other programs very quickly released an update on IZEA’s website to address the Direct Publishing questions people had about the new SocialSpark 2.0.

The primary question was security concerns over allowing SocialSpark to have ATOM RPC ability to publish posts directly onto your blog (or in the case of blogger authorizing SocialSpark via OATH to publish directly to your blogger blog).

Ted also goes on to explain the transparency to FTC and the ability to ensure that Advertisers cannot “reject” opps after they have already been published, since they must approve the opportunity before it goes live is a very important factor in SocialSpark needing to validate, approve the opp before it publishes.

The fact that you can create a separate wordpress account and then use a plugin to restrict the account to just a contributor account, should alleviate fears that SocialSpark can cause any sort of administrative damage to your blogs. Because you can disable, delete or revoke the account from being to publish to your blog at any time, it is highly unlikely IZEA will do anything uncalled for.

But this makes me wonder about another potential service that IZEA can offer, maybe the ability to pay a per month or per post basis just to publish “Guest posts” on behalf of Advertisers based on a category or topic you predefine. Imagine the simplicity if Sponzai where to use this feature where you have to pretty much manually cut/paste the exact post already, you could just approve with 1 click and the post is published and you get paid. There are advantages to this Direct Publishing method and the ability to have advertisers write posts and you get paid just for letting them be published is something that saves bloggers time and earns them some money.

I see additional features and product offerings that can come as a result of the Direct Publishing and am looking forward to seeing how it will be implemented and used.

-Dragon Blogger

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TheFlyOnTheWall

Ah you answered me perfect. Thank you so much! I have created an Author account and I am good to go. I like you think it will be just fine and we will not really have any problems :)

Thanks again, love your blog.

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Alison Moore Smith@Easy Blog Setup

Good info, dragon. I haven't taken the time to look into the changes, but I've used SocialSpark and other paying services quite a bit.

IMO, they should post that no back-to-back rule more prominently. When I first started I had a number of posts rejected because I didn't see that.

BTW, that first comment is a spam comment. :)

dragonblogger

Yeah, I remember finding out the hard way as well. They should keep that more prominent. Thanks about the comment spam, I found your comment in my Akismet bucket for some reason.

Ok so what is the difference between a Contributor and an Author account?

I want to make sure I set up the correct one :)
Tam

Contributor can create/edit posts but not publish or delete them, Authors can created/edit/delete and publish their posts immediately without requiring review and approval.

So that being said I think it has to be an Author account, can't be contributor for SocialSpark Direct Publishing because it needs to direct publish.

Alex@SQL Training

Do you use SocialSpark? Do you get offers out there. I hardly get any from out there and if I do too I get offers which are totally un related to my niche

Klaus @ TechPatio

This might be a semi-offtopic question, but does IZEA still demand that you have some kind of code listed at your site, for them to track views etc? And are you still not allowed to use other services for paid posts?

The New SocialSpark integrates with Google Analytics so you don't need the ITK Toolkit script anymore, in fact you don't need that ITK Script for PayPerPost, Sponzai, or anything except SocialSpark and InPostLinks.

But what about their rules, are you allowed to use other "paid post"-providers now? I think there was a time they didn't allow you to use that - or at least another specific competitor.

IZEA has always stated you can't have 2 paid posts back to back, must have at least 1 non-sponsored content before and after each sponsored content. But they always allowed you to use other paid programs. I used BlogsVertise, ReviewMe, SponsoredReviews on the same SocialSpark and PayPerPost blogs for 2 years without issues. Just don't have too much paid content, I like to keep the ratio 25% or less sponsored content.