Blogging Rules

These rules may be modified at any time by Blog Distributor. To create and maintain a blogger account with Blog Distributor, you agree to abide by these rules.

You

1. You can be located anywhere in the world where English is the primary language.
2. You must be at least 18 years old.
3. To receive writing assignments (called "New Jobs") from Blog Distributor, your blog must first be certified by Blog Distributor.
4. To get your blog certified, you must complete the Blog Distributor Sign Up form and your blog must then be approved by Blog Distributor.
5. You can have an unlimited number of blogs certified with Blog Distributor. Each individual blog must be certified separately.
6. Blog Distributor reserves the right to not accept any posting, and to cancel our certification for any blog, at any time, at our sole discretion.

Your Blog

1. Your blog must be indexed in Google™. If your blog is not indexed in Google™, do not submit it to Blog Distributor; it will be rejected.
1. You can check if your blog is indexed in Google™ by going to Google's home page and typing the following into the Google™ search box site:yourwebsite address. If your blog does not come up, your blog is not indexed in Google™.
2. You can submit your blog to Google™ by completing Google's Add URL Form at www.google.com/addurl.html.
2. There must be at least 15 postings in your blog in the last 90 days.
3. Your blogs must be primarily text-based. Blogs that are primarily audio and/or video-based, will not be accepted.
4. Your blog must be written in English and use proper English grammar.
5. Your blog must look professional.

Your Work for Blog Distributor

1. After reserving a New Job, you have 48 hours to create the posting for it. After that, if you have not finished the blog posting, your reservation for that New Job will be canceled so that other bloggers can work on it.
2. If you frequently reserve New Jobs but do not create postings for them, you may lose your certified status.
3. The content of each blog posting must be original and unique. You cannot use the same content on multiple postings, or on multiple blogs. You cannot copy content from other blogs, web sites or other sources.
4. All postings that you write for Blog Distributor must be written in English and use proper grammar and punctuation.
5. The length of a blog posting is normally approximately 100 words. You can make your posting larger, but it must all be on-topic.
6. You will be told the exact minimum number of words that your blog posting must contain. This number may vary, depending on the New Job. You can always write more words than the minimum for that specific New Job.
7. Your blog posting must be about the subject keyword or phrase. Off-topic postings will not be accepted.
8. Blog postings must be written about the keyword/keyword phrase. It is OK to slant the text of your blog posting towards the subject(s) of your blog. For example, if your blog focuses on cooking and the keyword phrase is "Alabama", you could talk about cooking in Alabama. If you wish, the text of your blog posting can focus on something quite different from the Product/Service Description, as long as it focuses on the keyword/keyword phrase.
9. In some situations, you may receive more than one New Job for the same keyword/keyword phrase and the same client's website. This is ok, as long as the text of your two blog postings are quite different from each other.
10. Do not change the sequence of words in the keyword/keyword phrase. Keep them in the exact sequence as they were originally supplied to you.
11. The exact keyword/keyword phrase must be in both the title of the blog posting and in the text of the blog posting.
12. The link from your blog posting to the client's website must be from the keyword in the text of the blog posting, not from the title of the blog posting.
13. The keyword/keyword phrase must be highlighted in the blog posting so that it is easily noticed (in a different color font or bolded, etc.).
14. The blog posting must not contain misspellings.
15. Your blog posting cannot have:
1. Profanity or marks such as *, #, etc. to denote profanity
2. Hate-oriented language
3. Violent language
4. Adult or pornographic content
5. Promotion of Illegal drug use
6. Racial intolerance
7. Any content that promotes illegal activity
16. The blog posting that you create for a client cannot mention a competitive product or service or website.
17. If you feel that you cannot be honest in your blog posting, you should not reserve the New Job.
18. You don't have to be positive in your blog posting, just say what you think.
19. No ads or links to ads for other products/services or other firms can be immediately above the blog posting title or between the blog posting title and the blog posting text or immediately below the blog posting.
20. The blog posts that we pay you for must remain on your blog permanently, although they do not have to remain on your home page.
21. Postings with "noindex" or "nofollow" tags will not be accepted.
22. We will not accept postings with notes indicating the posting was paid for or is a sponsored posting (or any other language that communicates this point). If a note exists elsewhere on your blog that speaks of paid or sponsored listings, that's ok, it just cannot be on or near the posting done for Blog Distributor. The postings that you create for Blog Distributor cannot be in a "Paid" section of your blog.
23. If you receive an e-mail from us indicating that your blog posting is not acceptable, but can be revised, you have 24 hours after the e-mail has been sent, to re-submit your posting. If you do not re-submit your posting during this period, it will not be accepted later. You can re-submit your blog posting a maximum of two times. After that the job will be automatically given to another blogger. We will track blogs for the number of postings that have to be re-submitted. If a blog has too many of these, it runs the risk of being de-certified. We will tell you what the problem is on your blog posting.
24. If we send you an e-mail that your blog posting is not accepted, and we do not give you the option of re-submitting it, then you cannot re-submit your blog posting because the job will have been given to another blogger. We will still tell you what the problem was, for future reference.
25. Timing of Stages

    Stages	Timing
    Reserve New Job	Within 24 hours after the e-mail is sent to you
    Write Blog Posting	Within 48 hourse after reserving New Job
    1st repair of blog posting (if there is a problem with your blog posting)	Within 24 hours after the e-mail is sent to you
    2nd repair of blog posting (if there is still a problem with your posting)	Within 24 hours after the e-mail is sent to you
    Link your blog posting to the client's website	Within 48 hours after the e-mail is sent to you
    1st repair of a link to the client's website (if there is a problem with your link)	Within 24 hours after the e-mail is sent to you
    2nd repair of a link to the client's website (if there is still a problem with your link)	Within 24 hours after the e-mail is sent to you

    If any of the stages above are not finished within the time frame described in the "Timing" column above, then the job will automatically be turned over to another blogger and you will not be paid for that blog posting. (Sorry to be so blunt.)

Your Relationship with Blog Distributor

1. You are an independent contractor to, and not an employee of, Blog Distributor.
2. You will be paid once a month for approved postings from the previous 30 day period.
3. The monthly payment for your work will be in the form of a check if you are located in the USA or a payment through a PayPal-type firm if you are located outside of the USA. Your payment will be sent out to you within five business days after the anniversary of the day that your original blog was certified by Blog Distributor or as close to that date as possible.
4. There is not a maximum number of jobs per month that you can complete from Blog Distributor. We want to send you as many jobs as possible!
5. If you contact any client or reseller, that you have been introduced to by Blog Distributor, and create any problems with them that result in any problems for Blog Distributor, then you will be held financially liable for any losses that Blog Distributor suffers.
6. Blog Distributor has invested years of time and substantial amounts of money creating their website, which connects individual bloggers with individual clients and resellers, who would not normally find each other otherwise. Therefore, it is not acceptable for a blogger to bypass Blog Distributor and sell his/her services directly to any client or reseller that the blogger has been introduced to by Blog Distributor, including any additional websites that the client or reseller may have.
1. The connection, that has been made by Blog Distributor, is not just between the blogger's blog(s) and the client's/reseller's website(s) but also between the blogger and the client/reseller.
2. Blogger agrees that, if he/she sells directly to the client/reseller, then the blogger will immediately owe Blog Distributor 24 times the amount of money that blogger was being paid per month (the average amount per month over the last three months that his occurred) for that particular client/reseller (in US dollars), including all websites from that client/reseller. If this situation happens with multiple clients/resellers, then the same fee structure is due from that blogger. 24 times the fee, represents the expected minimum of two years that the average client/reseller would have used the services of Blog Distributor.
3. In addition, Blog Distributor will never again provide any New Jobs to that blogger.
4. Blog Distributor has a software tool that continuously monitors the Internet and tells us when this situation happens.
5. If you do not sell blog postings directly to clients or resellers that we have made you aware of, all of these negatives will have absolutely no effect on you.
7. If there are any legal disagreements between you and Blog Distributor, they will be settled by binding arbitration, by an arbitrator that is located in the city where Blog Distributor is located.
8. Due to the costs involved, payments to the individual blogger will be sent out monthly when they are the equivalent of at least $50.00 if the blogger is located in the USA and $100.00 USD if the blogger is located outside of the USA.