Two of our friends Andrew Ian Dodge of DodgeBlogium and Andrew Bennett of TheBenSpark have both made it to the final 10 of the FuelMyBlog challenge to send a blogger to the Superbowl and feature them in a SuperBowl ad.

Please consider dropping by to sign up and vote at

http://www.fuelmyblog.com/index.jsp?t=mybowlad

You can vote once per day for any or all of the blogs.  We would highly encourage you to support Andrew and Andrew!

Our direct pay missions are paid according to a simple payment scale that is based on the page rank of your blog. 

We pay as follows (updated 10/4):

We sometimes receive urls submitted for our program that claim a Pagerank that is higher than the pagerank they actually have.  We will only make payments on missions based upon the pagerank of the blog at the time the review on the permalink is conducted, which is typically within 7 days of submitting the permalink as we make payments within 7 days.

Changes in Pagerank

If your blog’s pagerank increases in between the time that you submit a permalink and our review, we will pay you based on the higher rate.

If your blog’s pagerank decreases in between the time that you submit a permalink and our review, we will pay you based on the lower rate.

We will consider mitigating circumstances and will work with bloggers in all situations, however please understand that our advertisers are paying for honesty and accuracy.  We do accept many different levels of blogs and many different experience levels of bloggers.

Several of the direct pay missions assigned on Friday have been extended an extra 1 - 2 days.  Some of the missions were loaded just before the expiration.

We initially expected the missions to go out 2 days earlier and the dates were not updated to reflect the time frame.  For those of you that requested an extension, we have given 2 days and for everyone else we have given 1 day. 

We didn’t want to hold the missions in the que if you were not interested in the missions.  If you need 2 days, please send us an email and an extension will be granted, otherwise we will reassign the mission and funds to another blogger. 

Happy Blogging!

We have kicked off our first hybrid missions!   (We have also kicked off several batches of Direct Pay Promotional Missions - so check your account)

To be more precise, we’ve kicked off our first 100 hybrid missions.  In the past we have offered B2C missions.  Bloggers could log in to the B2C section grab the tracking code or banners with tracking code, publish the article and earn a commission for each reader that signed up or followed through on the particular item that was being advertised.

Those missions also had a group earning rate.  For each conversion by any blogger an identified amount would be contributed to a pool for a later split amongst all blogger participants.

We have had some success with these missions especially with the Pictures.com and Transformers missions.  The Pictures.com missions paid bloggers every time a reader signed up for a free photo contest by submitting a picture via upload.

The Hybrid Alternative

With the hybrid missions we are removing the group payment rate on the back end and replacing it with a direct payment to bloggers up front within seven days of completing their article.

The direct up front payment rate will vary from one mission to the next and will typically be proportionate to a multiple of the group earnings rate.

LinkyLove Mixed In

With the hybrid model we are also going to include a linkylove component.  Many bloggers have told us over the last few months that the linkylove aspect of the LinkyLoveArmy is the most important factor.  We’ve received many requests to boost the LinkyLove factor in our missions.  As we kick off the hybrid model, we are working with a new campaign covering Inbox Dollars(Offer ID 787 in B2C section), a site that pays people to read emails, surveys and play games. 

The LinkyLoveArmy is paying bloggers to right a short short article about Inbox Dollars and include the tracking link or banners (with the tracking link for the campaign) and also link to any additional articles identified.

We will take the articles submitted by LLA members and utilize those as targeted links in the next round of this campaign so get your entry in early to start earning links!

Payment on the Inbox Dollars Campaign

The Inbox Dollars missions will pay $2 up front (this is a very short article) and $1 in commissions for every person that signs up under your individual banners with tracking links from the B2C section.

Complete Your Article and Get Paid

All you have to do is log in to our new bloggers section, and follow the view mission details instruction for your InBox Dollars mission.  Once you submit your permalink and it is verified, we will pay you $2 within 7 days.  The commissions will be paid separately once your account reaches a $50 minimum for all missions(we’re working to lower that minimum).

This is just the first mission of this type.  We will have many more and the payment rates will sometimes be more, much more and will sometimes be less depending on the nature of the product or service.

Correction

We have separately rolled out the next round of the Zwinky campaign.  This is a normal B2C missions, but the early additional permalinks provided over the next 7-10 days will be targeted in the next round of linkylove.

Rules

Just a reminder.  No one should sign up for any B2C services using their own affiliate tracking link.  Your commissions could be voided if you sign up under your own tracking link provided after you login.

Also, many B2C missions will not display the same page to bloggers whose IP addresses are located in countries outside of the advertisers requirements.  You can still participate in the mission, and attempt to attract your readers to the offers where those readers do reside within the targeted areas.

We are launching the first few sections of our new Bloggers Section.

This is our first beta on our new system.  Existing LinkyLoveArmy bloggers will receive new login details via email today.

Initial Beta Functionality

This is not the full system yet, but does provide the following types of functionality:

• Registration within the LLA domain
• View all Missions from one location
• No More Mission assignments by email!
• Submit Permalinks within system
• Correct permalinks after submission if necessary

Future additional modules

• On the fly Mission acceptance
• Payment History and Totals
• Future Payment Reports
• LinkyLove Ratings (How much love can you expect in links for each mission)
• LinkyLove History (Identifies the Number of links earned with the LLA)

New Types of Missions

We are adding several new types of products for our advertisers and we are going to offer our bloggers many more ways to earn money as well!  We will be loading new missions throughout the day today.

Note, the new system does not have the full history of activity loaded in from the former system.  Past mission detail will be added soon.

Just a few more Coke Zero’s and we’ll have it!