We’ve made an additional update with the password system that will hopefully fix things for the remaining users still experiencing issues (as of 12/28/2007 10 pm Greenwich).

Please, Please ( I do apologize for asking) try to login one more time. 

Let me know if you are still experiencing issues accessing your account.

Hi Everyone,

I have some good news and some news of the other persuasion.  Our site underwent a database upgrade over the holidays.  The result is that our passwords have a higher level of encryption.

The issue is that ALL old passwords are no longer any good and EVERY :(  user must request a new password.  Once you get your new password, please reset your password to a new password right away and you should be in good shape!

We are currently working to repair an issue that is preventing some users from logging into their accounts.  Sometime over the last few days a few users have reported difficulty logging in and an inability to reset their passwords.  We are aware of the issue and working to resolve it rapidly.

For those of you attending BlogWorld in Las Vegas this week, please have fun, be safe, and have fun.

I will be out here from today until Sunday and hope to meet up with many of you.  We are forging many great relationships, which means more work, more very high paying work, and more fun for our bloggers.

It also means that we can deliver even more useful tools and value to our advertisers. 

Plus, our programmers are out here in Vegas so we are doing some meetings and catching up on several of the suggestions and recommendations that all of our stakeholders have recently provided.

A batch of payments were sent out today.  In that batch, 4 payments went to preferred email accounts instead of paypal email accounts.  We had to cancel those 4 payments and reissue them to the correct paypal email accounts.

The corrected payments went out within 10 minutes of the error. 

We sincerely apologize for any confusion or stress this issue may have caused.  Please feel free to contact us, if you have any questions or further difficulties.

PayPal is showing that all of the payments were successfully and correctly received at this time.

We have upgraded the LinkyLoveArmy Referral technology.  Please login to your account to get updated code information to run in your blog articles.

We have 3 more phases of upgrades to implement.

Phase 2 - Referral Reporting Information to show your referral numbers.

Phase 3 - Referral Earnings Report - Available on a Monthly Basis

Phase 4 - Real Time Referral Earnings Reporting

Updated Code Example Correction with LinkyLoveArmy Referral code

WordPress.com blogs No Longer Accepted

The LinkyLoveArmy will no longer accept blogs into our program that are hosted on free domains through WordPress.com.

Ergo  http://freedomain.wordpress.com

The WordPress organization will delete your blog and all of your writing if you utilize their services and couple it with any form of advertising, including ours.  We do not want you to lose your blogs and your writing, so let’s keep things simple and safe and go elsewhere.

Domain Rental Program

In addition to using free domains at places like www.blogger.com we are establishing a hosted domain rental program.  If you can not afford your own domain or host, or do not have the technical skills to set one up (and we do highly encourage it, but its not for everyone), we will rent some bloggers a domain or sub domain on a hosted account.

This rental program will not require any money up front, and bloggers will only be charged if they do not write regularly on the blog they rent. 

We will have more information on this program shortly. 

We will be accepting offers from existing domain owners, looking to rent out sub domains as well as offering bloggers with rental options to start working a real domain name at higher revenue levels.

Several times per week I receive a variation of the question below on the phone or via email:

• Do you charge bloggers for this service?
• Do you charge a subscription fee to bloggers to included in the LinkyLoveArmy?

As I received this question again last night, I realized that I was over due to write on the blog about it, although I think this is buried in the forum somewhere. 

Many people think that since we are promoting bloggers and sending them lots of incoming links, that we might charge bloggers for that service.  Since we launched our referral commission program last month, many people have also asked if we charge something like a subscription fee to join as well.

The answer to both questions is  a loud no! 

We never charge bloggers.  We want to PAY bloggers to blog, not charge bloggers to be in our program or anything like that. 

Cash Rich Industry

This is a cash rich industry, where companies are expected to pay in advance for their advertising and where we strive to pay our bloggers within 7 days of completing missions.  We don’t even want your interest!

Truth be told, we don’t need bloggers money! 

Challenge to Bloggers and to the Blogging Industry

Our biggest challenge is tailoring missions in ways that bloggers will accept them and do a great job writing creatively about them.  Too many bloggers these days are writing articles that are starting to look and read in a spammy fashion. 

Our goal is to change the industry and swing it back to being creative again.  In the spirit of Brewster’s Millions (Richard Pryor movie from the 80’s~He’s from my hometown.)  We very happily and politely want to pay bloggers to blog, but blog well.  That takes practices and it takes effort and that effort in a capitalist economy should be rewarded with money.

So to wrap things up, we do not charge bloggers anything. 

We do not charge a subscription fee of any kind.  (No fees at all)

We do want bloggers to blog better.

Creativity, Creativity, Creativity, Bloggers Have Creativity

We work everyday trying to find ways to make the missions more exciting, but the purpose for this is not to entice bloggers to write spam, but instead to find the creative direction to take an article that will make that article stand out on their blog and be a great article.  If it doesn’t fit, it doesn’t fit, BUT  I’d challenge all bloggers to look at each mission and try and figure out how to get creative with that mission. 

Many bloggers are not the best journalists.  That is a compliment in many ways as journalism these days is spammier than most of the worst blogs on the internet.  IMHO bloggers provide the most benefit when they are being creative.  I do believe that 2 brains are better than 1, that 5 perspectives are better than 2, and that an army of bloggers can move continents.

Bloggers have the potential to contextualize information, feelings, events, perceptions, issues, reality, and much more.  Putting information through a creative subjective filter is the value that bloggers add to the internet.  We do not have to try and emulate journalists and report “What” but we can deep dive all day long into the “Why” the “How” The “What happened when I tried it” and more.

We can speak to everyday people, because we are everyday people.  We are close to the action, and we have thousands of examples to talk about, situations to explore, what ifs to write about and more.

If you Have a Perspective on Something, Write on it

So if you have a Perspective on Something, write on it.  Find a creative outlet for your perspective.  Use that outlet to develop your writing skills, to develop your creative spirit, and while you are at it, We’ll happily pay you and help you move your online blogging business into the black!

For two years now, I have been attending the EcomXpo Virtual Trade Show for ecommerce, emarketing, and much more.  This year they are adding a job fair component to the show.  If you are a blogger, ghost writer or an internet marketer, I highly recommend this event, especially if it is your first time going.

It is free to attend the show, and there is a great deal of information to gather that can help you be more successful with your blog and websites.

There are also a number of very valuable keynote speeches through the EcomXpo University.  I definitely recommend attending these as well as you can learn a great deal from some of the leaders in the industry.

Plus, if you are looking for some interesting and useful topics for blog writing purposes, you are sure to find some here!

Note. last spring I won a trip to Florida and the year before that I won a $200 gift certificate at a spa.  I donated both to charity, but if you win, feel free to keep your prizes!

We hadn’t seen too many splogs register here in a couple months until last week.  I just wanted to take a moment to let everyone know that splogs are not welcome here.

1. If you have a splog, do not expect any work.
2. If your pagerank is fake, do not expect any work.
3. If your fluency is poor, keep practicing your writing and when it is fluent, you can expect work, but don’t turn your site into a splog while you are learning.

Where the Work is Going

1. If you write well, you can expect work.
2. If your pagerank is not fake, you can expect work.
3. If your blog is not a splog, you can expect work.

If you want help making your blog better, and improving your writing skills, we’ll do everything we can to point you in the right direction.

Login at http://bloggers.linkylovearmy.com

If you have forgotten your password, use the forgotten password functionality to reset the password.  Then update it to your new password.

Once logged in again, click on the referral link and you will be provided with a tracking referral link url.

Provide that link to your friends, and other great bloggers.  Post it on your blog if you like, however, we would prefer that you do not run it in your sidebar.

Repeat the post in an article if you like, but our advertisers prefer not to see our own advertising on your blog in the sidebar.

Here’s the big announcement!  We are kicking off the richest referral program across the blogosphere for Pro Bloggers, Profitable Bloggers, even Amateur bloggers that like to make a little extra money from their blog.

In our industry, most companies that pay bloggers to blog or sponsor bloggers to blog, pay nothing for referrals.  A big $Zer0 Dollars!

A few might offer you a few bucks if you refer a new blogger into their system.

What good does it do a blogger to refer another blogger into these Systems???

In other systems, this just means more competition for the blogger that referred someone.  That means less work, less money!

Now, I like many of you have happily referred lots of bloggers to these systems.  I’m not that greedy that I wouldn’t share, but the truth is, it hurts me, it hurts all of us when we do this.  It hurts us right in the PayPal Card!

A Solution to Help Bloggers Truly Profit from their Referrals

Many of us have been talking about this problem for close to 2 years now.  Well, the LinkyLoveArmy has a solution to this problem and its big!

Other Systems

Lets say one of those other sites offers you $10, if you refer someone.  The new bloggers signs up, they start writing articles and taking jobs and they make $200 the first month.  They get better and they speed up and they make $2000 in the next 5 months.  By the end of the year, they make a total of $6,000.  You got $10, they got $6000 for your referral and the company got a commission of 35-100%.

That doesn’t seem very fair!

Our System in Action (Simple Version)

We will pay you a commission based on how much that person earns when they blog with us.  We are taking 20% of our topline commission margin and giving it back to our bloggers! 

Here’s how the model above would work for you:

Now, I double majored in Accounting and Finance and picked up my Master’s focusing on International Finance.  But it doesn’t take any finance education to understand that $81 is better than $10!

Let’s assume that the $6,000 was earned from writing 600 articles at an average of $10 each.

Our System Cruising at 30 Miles an Hour

But that’s just 3 people! 

That assumes that you have only referred 1 person directly yourself and that person only referred 1 person and that person only referred one person!

We Pro Bloggers can do better than that ~ We’ve got a Blogosphere to conquer Here!

Our System Cruising at 55 Miles Per Hour

Let’s work with the law of 5’s just to take a look at this more closely.  Let’s assume that you refer 5 people, and each of those people on average refers 5 people into our system(5×5 = 25).  Those 25 each refer 5 more (5 x 25 = 125).  Total 5 + 25 +125 = 155 

Let’s consider that you are such a good blogger that you show your direct referrals how to blog better and more effectively and that they earn $5,000 each the first year.  Let’s also assume that they pass on some of that knowledge to their referrals, who earn $4,000 the first year.  The last group is just getting into the swing of things and earns $2,500.

For you Big Thinkers Out There . . .

How many bloggers do you think are out there on the internet?

How many do you know?

Is it in your best interest to recruit people with us at the LLA?

Is it in your best interest to help those people you recruit?

Will you stop at $244 or $5,950 or will you shoot for $100,000?  (That’s about 2650 bloggers total with the assumptions above!)

We hope that as you ask yourself those questions, you see some benefit and incentive to work with us.  We are making you our partners.  We are the LinkyLoveArmy and this is how we show you the Love!  With a portion of our profits, we are in this together.  Our success at the LLA is tied to your success as bloggers.  We are striving to make a better blogosphere in many many areas.  With that said, here are some of our rules:

1. Referral commissions will be paid every 30 days, net 30 after the close of the month in which they were earned.
2. To be eligible to receive referral fees, you must be an active blogger in our network yourself.  You can’t refer a bunch of people and do nothing!
3. An active blogger in our network will be defined as a blogger that completes 5 assignments per month or 1 assignment per blog whichever number is more.
4. If in a future month after a blogger has been active for at least 6 months straight, a blogger becomes inactive and doesn’t meet number 3, their referral earnings will decrease for that month by 50%.
5. If in the next month the blogger is inactive again, their earnings will decrease to $0.
6. Bloggers can become active again, by meeting the requirements for number 3.
1. The first month of activity after being inactive, will set their referral earnings rate at 50%.
2. The second month of activity after being inactive, will set their referral earnings rate at 75%.
3. The third month of activity after being inactive, will set their referral earnings back to 100%.
4. If they become inactive again within 3 months, their earnings will drop to $0 in the first month of inactivity and they will start the process over again.
7. You will not earn referral commissions off of your referrals referral commissions.  Commissions are only paid from the top line commissions the LLA earns from the work performed by bloggers.
8. This referral program will run for one year and may renew at the discretion of the LinkyLoveArmy.
9. We reserve the right to change the terms of this program at any time.
10. Anyone found to be cheating this program, our violating other LinkyLoveArmy terms of service and policies, may be removed from the LinkyLoveArmy, have their earnings voided, have their referral commissions voided and/or have their LinkyLove links turned into nofollow links.
1. Cheating can include but may not be limited to
1. writing articles in less than fluid English
2. writing articles with programs or software that generate gibberish or generate articles at all
3. submitting articles that are duplicate content
4. submitting articles and deleting them after submission
5. staring cross eyed at one legged dogs
6. inciting religious wars or wars of any kind
7. backdating articles after the month ends to meet the minimum requirements
11. If you earn more than $100,000 in commissions through the LinkyLoveArmy, you may be called upon to perform interviews with the Press.  We will compensate you for your travel expenses if travel is required.
12. If you earn more than $500,000 in commissions through the LinkyLoveArmy, you may be called upon to endorse the LinkyLoveArmy in a Super Bowl advertisement on television.
13. If you earn more than $1,000,000 in commission through the LinkyLoveArmy, you may be called upon to perform interviews with the Press, endorse the LinkyLoveArmy in a Superbowl advertisement on television and send the founder of the LinkyLoveArmy 1lb of bear claws from River Street Sweets in Savannah, Ga every year for 5 years on December 1.
14. All LinkyLoveArmy members that earn money through the referral program will agree to allow the LinkyLoveArmy to promote the program and our company with examples of your earnings and success publicly in any forum or medium we choose. 

* I do not know any company that actually pays this much.  I was just trying to be nice to the other companies.  I like them a lot. 

**Bloggers referred directly by you!

***Referred by bloggers that you directly referred ~ Tier 1

We are rebooting the LinkyLoveArmy in October.  All summer we have been finding, testing, and building a strong network of bloggers.  We’ve tried a number of new products to help bloggers make money, while providing better solutions to advertisers.

We are kicking off some brand new products, fresh out of beta in October.  I want to thank everyone that helped us test these, and especially those of you that helped test the products that didn’t make it out of beta!

We have an even more important announcement coming soon as well. 

1. This is the start. 
2. This will make you money. 

3. Our next announcement might make you wealthy!

Here is a break down of the new products and the new ways you will be able to make money through the LinkyLoveArmy.

Blog Marketing Category

Pro Blogger Offers

Hybrid Affiliate Offers

Affiliate Offers (Old LLA B2C offers)

*Sponsored Article payment rates will depend on PageRank at time of review of article.

**One text link is for advertiser, and one text link is for previous bloggers article

***Blogger chooses topic with text links.  This means that the blog article does not have to be about the linked website, but the link should not be randomly thrown in without making logical sense in the article.

We’ve got some big announcements coming next week, so do please stay posted.

Today, I wanted to mention a couple house keeping items.  They are small but important.

1. We have turned on forgotten password functionality in the Bloggers section. 
2. Plus, we’ve added a change password option once you are logged into the Bloggers section.

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.