We will be rolling out a mission this week focussed on a birth control patch.  Later this week or early next week we will be launching 2 campaigns.

The first will be related to Real Estate and Mortgages.

The second will be related to photography and photo contests.

Please stop by the forum and leave a message if you have a blog that might provide a good setting for the wedge position for either of these missions.  If you have a blog that would be great for this mission, but its not yet registered with the LLA, stop by the forum and also register your blog today!

To be featured in the wedge position, we will be looking for well written articles primed for SEO purposes.  They will need to be keyword heavy and at least 400-600 words, no more than 1500.

If you would be interested in establishing this type of flagship article on your site with the support of our army of bloggers so that we can all earn money on this campaign together, you are in the right place!

One of our earliest trials with our Wedge blogging concept (this was pre-linkylovearmy), put a great article out in front to promote a software product.

The original article was close to 800 words, very strong in keywords, and contained 4 tutorial/demo videos.

We pointed just over a dozen sites to that article and it has a PageRank of 4 today.  That’s PR4 on the Permalink URL!

What Does this Mean?

The Wedge Blogging Concept works!  In fact it works so well, that we are going to start offering missions where bloggers are paid upon completing a write up for their articles that point to other publications.  We will promote great articles for paying publishers, and help them build up their Permalink PR, traffic and social bookmarking hits.

How does this impact our other Campaigns?

The lessons learned from that campaign plus the lessons learned from our very early betas under the LinkyLoveArmy have taught us several valuable lessons.

1. The article in the Wedge Position has to Rock.  It needs to be a minimum of 200 words, 400 would be considered good, 600 great, 800 prepare to make lots of money!
2. The wedge article has to be powerfully packed with 5-7% keywords on the topic at hand.  If the article is about Home Depot Gardening Newsletter, then those keywords should be in the article 5-7 times for every 100 words in the article.  If the article has 400 words, then those keywords need to be mentioned 20-28 times total.
3. The article needs to be bookmarked like crazy by all the linkyLoveArmy soldiers pointing to the wedge position blog.
4. PageRank doesn’t happen over night.  It takes a while for an article to get picked up and move up in the rankings.  For campaigns like this, we have to think a little more long term.  The article needs to pick up links a few at a time for several days to a couple weeks after its initially written (not 100 within 3 hours of completion - Search Engines will discount the links in bulk)

What’s Next?

We are going to be doing several new things with the linkylovearmy as I mentioned we will be promoting published articles for publishers, even other bloggers  We will continue to do our promotion campaigns as well, but we will look at 2 primary targets:

1. Targets that do not need linkylove boost, just need an army of bloggers to hit it
2. Targets that are going to be running for several weeks, possibly months where we can benefit from the linkylove boost on the permalink

Do you have Flagship Content on your blog? Is your Blog ‘known’ for something?When visitors aren’t randomly surfing, what do they typically look for on your website?

I would like to discuss and possibly introduce you to the concept of Flagship Content. As far as I know this is not a new concept but the buzz words might be attributable to Chris Garrett, the writer of a free ebook titled Killer Flagship Content. If you aspire to be a successful blogger, I highly encourage you to read it.

Role of Flagship Content in the LinkyLoveArmy

Flagship Content plays a pivotal role in the strategy of the LinkyLoveArmy. Our goal is to create flagship content and promote that same flagship content through our army. I have previously described the concept of WedgeBlogging and provided a number of other additional article covering it more fully.

What is the relationship of Flagship Content to WedgeBlogging?

Flagship Content and Wedge blogging have a direct relationship! You can not successfully perform a wedge blogging strategy without utilizing the principles described in Chris Garrett’s ebook. The blog articles that are the focal point of our wedge formation should be structured and written as flagship content. These articles need to be comprehensive and in some regards exceptional. At times we will cover products but in the future we will also cover a great deal of content. (more on this new development to come!) The articles need to provide something unique and important to your readers and provide a reason for the entire internet to come to your site and read that article.

Your article will be so good that our entire army of bloggers might point to your flagship content!

Two Simple Principles to Building up Deeplink PageRank

In general building up pagerank on articles or ‘deep links’ on a website, anything not the home page for the most part, is very simple. You need to primary components:

1. Flagship Content
2. Votes/Links from websites around the internet

How does the LinkyLoveArmy help Bloggers Achieve this goal?

1. We help suggest topics for you to cover as Flagship Content.
2. Bloggers write up that content and when its done well, the content will be compelling and unique and a force to be reckoned with!
3. We then introduce your article to our army of bloggers that also covers the topical content and links to your content as the Flagship Content in the Wedge Position.
4. This provides many links to your Flagship content from other articles on the same topic lending greater weight to your article.
5. Our formation of articles and bloggers creates an upwards funnel that also pushes readers to the source, your Flagship Content!
6. Plus, as time and indexing go by, your great and attractive content rich in keywords and many other items combined with the links from the blogger army and attracted by the blogger army(other blogs outside LLA that find you through our combined efforts) will drive your pagerank up on that individual article.

No Gaming Going on Here

The LinkyLoveArmy is not attempting to game the search engines at all. This is not a link game. We are helping bloggers find content, cover that content effectively and promote their message to rise above the static on the internet.

Our bloggers as we look at this in our second week are still new to the concept and developing their talents and skills in this area. The beta tests for the formations have gone very well. We have a long way to go and we have some exciting new features, products, and opportunities for bloggers that will be coming out very soon as well. In the meantime, I’d like our bloggers to read Chris Garrett’s ebook and consider how to best employ the practical advice and strategies that he describes. His techniques can definitely help people improve their blogging effectiveness, plus if you write about his ebook and link to his site, he will feature your blog in one of his own articles in the old fashioned linky love tradition!

Disclaimer. We do respect Chris Garrett and his opinions and writing, but he has no affiliation with the LinkyLoveArmy.

We are in the early stages of our first campaigns. We have not even mobilized the entire army yet on these campaigns as we await each of our blogger troop formations to run through the zones.

Things seem to be moving along pretty well. This week is going a little slow as we are all doing things that are brand new in some ways. Please keep all the questions coming, I am doing my best to get copies of each of the questions you ask in email, published in the forum. I’d like to ask that if you have questions please do not hesitate to keep sending or replying to emails. However, if you have a spare minute or two it would help the cause significantly if you ask the questions in the forum.

I will be working hard to keep the forums on track for the LinkyLoveArmy and very focused. I’d encourage you to venture over to GeekySpeaky’s forum or to Performancing’s forum if you want to talk shop about items unrelated to the LinkyLoveArmy. They both have excellent resources and a great group of bloggers. There is a great deal of good information as well at the forum at PayPerPost. I did not setup the LLA forum to compete with any of the other great forums, but I did set it up specifically for us to capture useful information so that we can work better together as a team. So if you are in doubt, feel free to post it here!

Follow on Waves Link to those that led the Charge

Over the last 24 hours we have seen several bloggers kick off the second wave of one of our campaigns. A few bloggers have linked to the LinkyLoveArmy in their campaign posts. This is not necessary and not required by the live missions. You are free to link to us if you like, but its not necessary.

That said, we do want you to point to the troops that led the charge ahead of you. Think of it like this.

Prepare yourself for bad analogy!

We are storming a castle. The first bloggers run to the castle wall with the ladders, set them against the wall and run to the top of the ladder. But with a blog they can only get halfway up the wall. The next group of bloggers come along and collectively lift up the ladder over their heads. Then the next wave repeats this and the wave after that and so on until the front bloggers get to the top. They get over the wall and run to open the gates for all of us.

So in that analogy it doesn’t help to point back to headquarters (LinkyLoveArmy), but it does help to lift up the troops above you and help them get over the wall.

More Bigger Buttons

We have increased the size of the buttons in the menu above to make it easier to find the registration options. The ‘Register’ button is for general registration and for entering your first and any additional blog url.

The B2C Register button is for registering for the consumer campaigns. You will receive missions for consumer campaigns but will not be able to get all the details you need to participate until you register in this additional system.

Working on Requests

We hope to get an alternate Email field set up shortly for new recruits and for existing (some battle hardened) soldiers. I’ll keep you posted on this and let you know how to add the alternate when its ready.

Regards,

Colonel Love

Our first live campaigns are kicking off today!  We have sent out our first mission to bloggers that volunteered for the wedge position last week.

They are writing their point articles and as we receive the permalinks back in we will get the next round off and running as well.  This will work as a bit of an iterative cycle as we go through our ‘battle formation.’

Keep your eyes on your email for your mission and make sure you have your email set to receive from the LinkyLoveArmy!

PS  We are looking for one more volunteer for the wedge position for an article on Intuit’s QuickBase online database tool, project management tool, and CRM systems.  This is for a free 30 day trial to QuickBase and will do very good.  Send an email to Colonel Love if you are interested and sign up today if you haven’t already.

We’ll probably do several missions this week to break the ice and then next week, we’ll go as fast as you want to go.

 This Army of Bloggers is Mobilizing!

We will be sending some of our first missions out to our new members very soon.  If you registered with an email service such as yahoo, aim, hotmail, gmail etc. please add Colonel.love at linkylovearmy dot com to your contacts so that you can receive our missions without the mission going into your spam/junk/bulk email folders by default.

Everyone that has registered so far should have received a welcome email from the same address.  If you did not, please check your folders and make sure you add us to your contacts soon so that you will not miss the initial missions.

Initial missions will go out staggered over a several day period.  The bloggers that will comprise the point of the wedge formation will receive their missions first.  They will have 24 hours to complete their mission and submit their permalink to the  LLA Headquarters (more info on this to follow!).

LLA Headquarters will take those permalinks and the campaign url target and create missions for the scouts, who will have 24 hours, then the marines who will have 24 hours, and so on all the way down through the wedge until the entire army is deployed.

I’d like to share with you a portion of our battle plan.

This video covers most of the information below. I’d encourage you to watch the 3-4 minute video and then possibly look below for additional details or clarifications. If you have any questions, you can always stop by our new forums!

The blogging world today is earning a large amount of money from sites that pay bloggers to write sponsored articles. I do it myself and enjoy it.

An advertiser might include a retailer on the web, or an affiliate advertiser promoting something for a retailer or just a site in general working to build PageRank. In the latter case nothing is being sold, just simple web site development.

In the former cases, something is being sold, a product, a service possibly even a lead for a product or service. The advertisers pay bloggers a nominal fee and receive a large benefit in PageRank that can last months or years.

The bloggers receive no additional compensation. Once the PageRank is developed the advertiser may not need to come back to work on it again ever or possibly at least many months. This means that the bloggers service is a one time event and the demand for their services can decrease over time. There will be competitors of the advertiser that will attempt to take away PR as well.

Plus, the sites that promote this service also take a commission (I’m referring to the sites that pay you for sponsored articles ). Some pocket just an industry standard of 35% approximately, but others can and do take upwards of 200% over what the bloggers receive.

Bloggers can take control of a portion of this industry directly. We can work together utilizing our collective power to drive even more effective results through these advertising campaigns and in doing so we bloggers can receive the long lasting PageRank benefit from our efforts.

The LinkyLoveArmy is working with several advertiser groups to bring these opportunities directly to our blogger army. We can reap the financial rewards of directly converting readers into leads when some of our readers sign up for a free download, an ebook and we can benefit when they sign up for a service offering or buy a product.

Typically, an individual blogger does not have the pagerank nor traffic nor clout to benefit from affiliate programs. However, we are going to harness the power of thousands of bloggers to utilize our collective clout in a way that the internet has not yet seen! Plus, recognizing that this is a group effort a portion of the spoils will be split amongst the entire group. If you ran an affiliate program by yourself, you would be likely to receive nothing for your effort.

With the LinkyLoveArmy we will help you build significant PageRank just like our advertisers buy and we will increase your odds of earning good money, from the conversions as opposed to nothing if you went it alone. Plus, sites that directly convert a reader will receive a direct share of the sale.

1. PageRank Increases working with the LinkyLoveArmy
2. More Likely to convert sales as you have the power of the LLA behind your site
3. Share in the proceeds to hedge your bets in the pool of blogs
4. Rewarded for your individual effectiveness and creativity. The better you write the more likely you will succeed!

Here is Our LinkyLoveArmy Battle Plan!

Together we can take back both commissions and boost our own PageRank together!

This will help you earn more money for your efforts.

It will encourage bloggers to write better quality blog articles.

It will increase the value of your blog via pagerank that will make you eligible for higher paying sponsored articles, more traffic and higher paying text link ads.

It will also increase the demand for blogger sponsored article services as the Affiliate advertisers will need to raise their game as we raise the PageRank bar.

We have a natural advantage in our mass ability to generate contextual content that can push people to a conversion more effectively.

Here is a glimpse at how we will apply our strategy.

We will create a wedge rotating our bloggers through the wedge positions in a way that focuses all the blogs of the army on these wedge blogs in turn. This will increase the page rank of the deep links we point to enabling us to gather more traffic on specific keywords that will convert. It will also raise the PR of the primary domain for the blog, which will help all other campaigns in the future in the LinkyLoveArmy and in any other venture you use your blog within!

We will choose the blogs for the wedge blogger positions based on two criteria.

1. We will choose half of these positions based on the blogs likelihood to convert traffic for that campaign. The better we choose the more we all will earn.
2. We will choose the other half based on general fairness. We will rotate blogs through the position to build up each of the blogs in our Linky Love Army.

We will have multiple layers of support focusing the strength of our linky love army into the Wedge Blog. We will utilize a Battalion of Marine Bloggers (the next best fit and the next blogs to have a turn in this second tier position).

All levels will then be supported by multiple divisions of blogs of all stripes and colors. The masses will point to strong blogs and the strong blogs and the masses will point to the Rambo like blogs in the wedge position.

Then on the next go around, we will switch up and rotate a new group through the positions and we will all get stronger and more effective on each and every iteration of our advertising campaigns!

Check back soon and we will provide more information on our revenue plan and soon we will be going live so sign up today to secure a good position in the opening salvos of our campaigns!

The more blogs the better in the Linky Love Army!