The Social Spark plot thickens as I finally received the following message though not a response to my support ticket.

Thank you for your blog submission!

Unfortunately, as per our terms of service, blog postings for remuneration through our service should only be made on blogs, and not Websites, message boards, online magazines, social network sites or other services established solely for promotion or commercial profit.  An example of a blog can be found here: http://blog.izea.com/

Thank you!
John C @ SS

OK and here is what has me confused as I go through blog after approved blog and find nearly every blog has paid advertising placements, we don't. Nearly every blog has paid text links in addition to popup ads on many. We don't and most have Google ads which yes we do have them.

Now we do have a handful of banners on our right sidebar that are websites we own with most of those seervices offered free of charge just as blog hosting here is also free of charge for our readers. Heck we don't even put ads on your free weblogs, we have a simple footer link to our blog and you are free to monetize your blogs as you see fit.

Izea, what gives? Why can Networked Blogs, Bloggers Choice which is yours by the way, and others linked to the left sidebar see that this is in fact a blog and not the party handling our review? The message points to your blog as an example which has every post related to Izea services and how best to maximize the earnings made with IZEA and Social Spark. Read our pages and like you we write industry related articles and press release announcements for our programs.

Like you we are a legal business with full license that pays taxes, but unlike your blog we also provide training that can be used even if you do not use our services as well as articles on news and politics, post on thoughts of the day, and website development and promotion. We monetized our blog, isn't that what your program is? A way to monetize blogs? Are you saying that I can only use you to monetize this blog?

Still waiting on a defined answer added my phone number to the support ticket so you can call and I can talk to a live person.

Andy Zeus Anderson

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