The homepage for Linkworth.com has hardly any useful info above the fold, but when you scroll down there are sections for publishers that say, “Sell ads and monetize your site with relatively little maintenance” and “Get paid to blog and write reviews for products & services.” Sounds like a useful service for bloggers to make money with.

I signed up for Linkworth and was immediately confused by the interface. At first I couldn’t even decipher what it was I had signed up for. Linkworth is like a number of the top money-making services rolled into one. The confusing interface will likely be enough to put some people off, but if you keep digging you can find some useful tools.

Once you’ve signed up and been taken to the main control panel, you’ll probably be scratching your head at what all the terms mean. Every time I clicked on something it didn’t take me to where I thought it would. Eventually I clicked on “Products” and found the two services that money-making bloggers will be interested in: Linkintxt and Linkpost.

Linkintxt is a way for bloggers to sell keywords and phrases in their existing content as links. Linkworth crawls your pages, finds keywords, and then you set a monthly price for those words. You add each of your blogs individually and the keywords Linkworth suggests are those that advertisers are currently purchasing in the market.

Once a keyword is sold you are given a piece of html code to add into your content. It sounds a bit fiddly, but if Linkworth can sell your keywords then it would be worth doing. The problem comes with being unsure how to price your keywords. I have mine priced around $5 and will wait to see if anybody picks them up.

Linkpost is like Pay Per Post. Once again you have to set the price per post, and then you must wait for advertisers to make you offers. It’s difficult to judge how big Linkworth is and therefore how quickly you will be offered paid posts, but if you are signed up and have your blogs submitted for Linkpost and Linkintxt then money could start to come your way. Better to have your options open than not, right? WorldofAngel was submitted and accepted within one hour.

I’ve used my affiliate link in this post. For each affiliate you sign up you receive $10 plus $5 of the affiliate’s revenue for as long as they use the service. Payments can be collected by check, wire, direct deposit or Paypal, with a minimum payout of $25.

Linkworth is not a big-money spinner but it’s an easy way to sell text links within your existing content in a way that won’t disrupt your readers. I’ll report back on the paid postings as and when they are offered.

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