Do you have a blog? Have you thought about paid blogging?

In this article, I'll review 5 paid blogging opportunities, where you create a post and are paid for your efforts.

1) PayPerPost

With PayPerPost your blog has to meet certain requirements to make the grade and you have to install some PPP tools on your blog before approval but once you are up and running. Opportunities range from the  lower end, around $1.00 to much higher: $25.00, $100.00 or more.

At PPP, you browse through the blogging offers and choose which ones are suited to your blog.

• PPP blogging payment amounts seem to have dropped. As well, blogs with PPP tools installed on them may have noticed a drop in PR. In light of these recent developments, PayPerPost may not be the blogging opp. it once was.
  

What I Like: Convenient colors allow you to see at a glance which opportunties your blog qualfies for. For example, white and green denote that you can post on those opportunities, gray means that all posts are reserved, pink means that your blog doesn't yet qualify.

What I don't Like: The drop in rates and the PR demotion.

2) Blogvertise

Generally speaking, it seems to be easy to gain blog approval. You can also set your minimum pay-out per blog and ad type. Blovertise allows blog video ad entries which tend to pay more.

What I Like: One feature that I like about Blogvertise is that they e-mail you with offers, which you can accept or decline. I find this convenient over having to log-in to the site to see if any tasks are waiting.

What I Don't Like: The number of paid posts offered.

3) Today.com

Today.com is offering an newer blogging opportunity. You set up one blog and are paid $1.00 per daily post + a percentage of ad revenue the first month out of the starting gate.

Everything is free: Today.com takes care of hosting and software you need to blog. You choose from a selection of blog templates. After the first month, pay rates increase or go down, depending on your blog's popularity.

What I like: is that if you are already used to blogging, creating short posts and actually getting paid to do so makes sense. In essence, you are paid for something you do already. Plus you have the chance for increased earnings down the road.

You can create a second blog and earn from it, as well.

Some of the top bloggers are making up to $700.00 per month.

What I don't Like: How long it takes for your earnings to be credited and show up in your account.

4) Sponsored Reviews

Sponsored reviews is somewhat different. You log-in and peruse the different blogging opportunities and then set a price on whatever opp. you want to blog about. What I don't care for is that this is time-consuming. I don't have time in a working day to do this with any regularity.

What I Like: At times, you receive an offer from an advertiser. This can be quite lucrative.

5) Smorty

Smorty also allows you to earn a little from blogging. While blogging opps. appear to be infrequent, this may depend on your blog's PR or other factors. Smorty is a little blogging sideline.

What I like: I heard about a lucrative writing job through Smorty and obtained high-paying review work.

What I Don't Like: Infrequency of paid offers.

Certainly, from the foregoing, it can be seen that paid blogging does just that. Pays you for creating blog posts.

Paid blogging is another good way to earn money from your blog.If you have a blog with a high PR, your payment amounts can become quite lucrative for paid blogging.

• You can create a page like this and earn ongoing royalties.