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.

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!

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.

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.

I wanted to thank everyone that is rapidly turning around some of our new reviews and inline keyword ad missions.  We are working to turn around payments back to you as fast as we can. 

We promise payment on these types of missions within 7 days of your submission of the permalink, but we have been coming in much much faster.  Sometimes making payments within minutes of a mission permalink submission.

We are not looking to sit on your money and tally up beans.  We will continue to turn around your payments as quickly as processing allows!