This guest post was submitted by Debra Dragon. Debra is a professional freelance writer who blogs at debradragon.com.

Have you heard of Snapbomb or PayPerPost yet? If you are a blogger and would like to earn some additional revenue from your blogging efforts, you may find both of these sites to be valuable- although I think SnapBomb offers a better opportunity in general.

If you own a blog, you can register it with SnapBomb and/or PayPerPost. Once approved, you can select topics from the available opportunities and write articles or information about those topics on your blog. You want to select topics that are related to the information you’re already providing on your blog, otherwise your plan to make more money can backfire as you’ll lose readers if you start making your blog a series of advertisements!

On both SnapBomb and PayPerPost, bloggers earn money from writing on their selected topics. Sponsors will pay the bloggers to help generate buzz on their products or services; or to otherwise include them in the blog’s content.

Advertisers are realizing the value of being mentioned on blogs – and are happy to allocate some of their advertising dollars to this form of marketing. The more people who write about their company, the more incoming links their website receives and the more attention they’ll attract from potential customers. It’s no-brainer, really!

With both of these blog marketing websites, the amount of money a blogger can earn will depend on several variables. The traffic a blog receives plays a large role in the amount of money offered to write about specific topics through SnapBomb; as well as how closely matched your blog’s content is to the product or service you plan to write about. On PayPerPost, bloggers can browse through various opportunities and pick the ones they’d like to write about based on the payment offered and whether or not their website qualifies based on the sites traffic and content.

There are mixed opinions of this type of blogging for money. Some people think it’s dishonest to be writing posts on your blog in exchange for payment; and that the opinions of the writers are obviously biased because they’re being paid to write about the company or product. When done correctly, however, I think it just provides another opportunity for bloggers to make some money doing what they love to do- write. When AdSense and other types of blog revenue aren’t earning enough to keep you going; there are other opportunities available to you- including SnapBomb and PayPerPost which might help you make additional money with your writing.