If you accept paid blog advertising there’s a new option for you to consider, and unlike some of the other services that I’ve mentioned recently, this one is live, accepting sign ups and making payments. Snapbomb has been up and running for a while, but it has done so with little fanfare.  By the time I signed up for the service, they were already running a slew of campaigns from brand-name advertisers and now they are ready to get more bloggers into the mix to even things out.

Why would a business of this type start out without a huge amount of fanfare?  The reasons are simple.  While other companies have been shouting to the four winds that they would be open for business on a certain date, then falling into the mists of vaporware when they could not keep their commitment, snapbomb has been slowly and steadily building their business, getting advertisers, attracting a dedicated core of bloggers and moving forward.  This is good business.

Any company that follows sound business practices should be applauded, but snapbomb takes their commitment to succeeding a step farther than most other blog marketing  services in several other areas.  The blogger interface is a prme example of this. Campaigns are broken down into easily readable and digestible entries based on each blog that you have in their network.  No more searching for an opportunity only to find that you aren’t eligible on the blog you need to post on.

They also provide page view stats at-a-glance, so there’s no question how well your blog has been performing traffic-wise.  While part of the bog valuation process is based on PR and traffic, the number of good reviews you receive has a serious impact on your overall payout numbers as well. In essence, snapbomb pays bloggers who write relevant, high quality posts more than those who simply spew out a post with just enough meat to cover the requirements given in the opportunity.  In my opinion this is good for bloggers, advertisers and the bloggosphere as a whole.

The sign up process is what you would expect.  Just go to snapbomb’s blogger page, sign up, get your blogs entered and verified, then start making money by writing reviews and creating a buzz for the advertiser.  All earnings are reported by blog, which is a feature that I personally find extremely valuable.  Payments are made on the 5th of each month, meaning that your lump payments will be larger, and that’s never a bad thing either.

Of all the different services I work with, snapbomb is one that I see moving into the future.  They’ve got a good start and with any luck they’ll be poised to take on the behemoths in the blog marketing industry within a few years.  Competition is good, it makes all of us that accept this type of work more money in the end, because the companies that pay the most on a consistant basis will be the ones that survive, not those that fall to the temptation of bells and whistles.

Check them out for yourself.

Well folks, it looks like there is yet another new contender in the blog marketing arena.  It’s not news that paid advertising and review services have been popping up all over the place.  most of them won’t be around for long.  The difference with this one is that of all the blog advertising services out there, this one actually lets you know where you stand.  That little distinction might just make Snapbomb one of the services you need to be watching in the future.

For advertisers wanting to get a little buzz going on about their product, site or service, Snapbomb works in the same manner that all of these types of services do.  You pay for a post, bloggers take it and refer visitors to your site.  Simple and effective, especially if you’ve got good writers on your side.

The difference in the snapbomb service is from the blogger’s standpoint. Not only does the blogger’s dashboard show your current blog status, but also monitors the number of page views and the minimum and maximum estimated value per post for that blog.  And unlike other services, it tracks these numbers for each and every blog you have!

It’s also simple to find opportunities for paid reviews with snapbomb, because all opportunities that you are qualified for show up at the top of the list, rather than being scattered among a slew of other opportunity listings. Top that off with a list of what you’ll be paid for all the blogs that you have in their system and that means you’re never left guessing if you are eligible to take an opportunity, or what you’ll be paid for that opportunity on each blog that you run.  Believe me when I say I consider that to be a massive plus!

The only downside that I see is that because of the way snapbomb rates blogs, it may take a while before you’re to the point where you’re making a significant amount per post.  Your earnings potential at snapbomb is not calculated just by PageRank (or other proprietary rating system) or pageviews.  Snapbomb values high quality posts and blogs must be rated to earn more per post.  Of course, when you start, you won’t have a rating, so payouts will be at the botom end of the scale.

The simple answer to that of course, is to post a few reviews, do a very good job and get a great rating.  How much that stands to earn you is something that I can’t tell you at this point, having just investigated the service.

In the end, I’ll stand on record saying that this looks like a pretty good system to be involved with at this point.  I’ll get back later with more opinions, but for now, I’m pretty happy with what I see.  Whether you like it or not is a determination for you to make, so go over to snapbomb and sign up!