Someone told me about Snapbomb and their blog marketing opportunities back in June, so I decided to join and check it out. Joining consists of creating an account, filling out your profile and adding blogs that you would like to write Snapbomb opportunities on. Once your blog has been approved, you can view available opportunities for it (and any other blogs you might have).

Opportunities are listed in two categories: available (qualified) and non-matched (unqualified). Available opportunities will pay you for a written post; non-matched posts are available for you to take, but only for brownie points/potential advertiser ratings, and not for money.

Opportunity payouts are based on the value of your blog. Your blog’s value is determined by several things, including Google PR, Alexa ranking and traffic.

Each opportunity listing gives a brief description of what the opportunity is about (what you should write about), the page you need to link to, and how much you’ll be paid for it Again, opportunity payouts are based on the value of your blog, so if you have multiple blogs in the system, you may see differing payout amounts for each blog.
Upon clicking the link to view the opportunity’s individual page and how to accept it, you’ll see a full description, keyword suggestions, and what link and anchor text to use. You’ll also see the minimum words required (typically 150).

Best of all, Snapbomb strongly encourages full disclosure. Straight from their bloggers FAQ:

We recommend that all bloggers clearly disclose that they are writing a sponsored post.

Payment is done sixty days after an opportunity is submitted and approved. Yes, this is a long time, but it’s nice to build up a balance simply by doing a sponsored opportunity here and there.

And yes, Snapbomb does pay!