Despite recent PR attacks on bloggers who get paid to blog, many advertisers are still taking advantage of blog advertising as a way to increase their revenues. And paid blogging companies like Smorty are still doing their best benefit both advertisers and bloggers through their system. Smorty works by connecting advertisers who are looking to increase their traffic and rankings with quality bloggers. The bloggers are asked to write unique articles about the advertiser’s services / offerings and create a link back to the advertiser’s website using specific keywords. The advertiser, depending on the number of campaigns he specified can have thousands of articles written about them including high quality inbound links. The rates per article can go from $6 up to $60. Every account has a smart score system based on the following factors – google PR, Alexa ranking, return rate of given tasks, approval/decline ratio, number of completed tasks. The higher the score, the more campaigns a blogger will receive. Aside from the factors mentioned above, there’s one thing that you shouldn’t forget and that is quality content. Content is still king no matter how high your pagerank or traffic is. A quality article, paid or not, should be on top of every blogger’s goal.