Linkworth has a refit, offers more ways to make money blogging
Linkworth, who I wrote about a couple of weeks back, have recently updated their control center in a bid to make things easier for people to work out what on earth is going on there. This comes as a welcome relief, but the site is still plagued with confusing names that will likely baffle newcomers.
So what’s in it for me?
Once you’ve got your sites in there, you have a number of ways to make money with your blogs.
Linkads
This is like Text Link Ads. You set a price for sitewide links and links on specific pages. Advertisers then contact you. There is also the option of selling rotating links.
Linkpost
As before, this is like Pay Per Post, except you wait for offers to come in. You set the price for each of your blogs and then advertisers find you. I have been offered posts through Linkpost already, but none of them are worth my time to accept because they are way off topic.
Linkintxt
This is still a cool thing. You sell links based on keywords in your blog posts. It’s not exactly revolutionary, but you get to set the price for each keyword.
Linksura
I didn’t notice this one before they remade the site. Linksura offers “single-url rotating ads”. What that means is that you place a single text link ad somewhere on your blog, and the anchor text changes with every page view, thought the url remains the same.
Linkmura
Another new one. Multi-url rotating ads this time. Both the anchor text and urls rotate. Seems like a bit of a gimmick.
LinkBB
This time you’re getting billboard ads.An advertiser writes a page of content with links that you then publish on your website. This is like Linkpost for people who don’t run blog software. For a blogger it’s not that useful.
Linkpack
This is a way to sell links on multiple blog in package deals. It’s not a bad idea in theory, but I’m unsure why you’d sell multiple links to the same person unless your blogs are about identical topics. It would also mean you make less money.
I’m not particularly impressed with the new Linkworth design because there is still no emphasis on making it clear exactly what is being offered by the company. That aside, there are some decent money making opportunities for bloggers hidden away in there. You earn up to 70% of the revenue you generate, which over time could mount up to a considerable sum.
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Hey there…happened across the LinkWorth mention and first want to thank you for the feedback and write up.
First I will agree with you that parts of our control center still need to be better explained. We announced on our blog some time ago that we will have the initial launch, which is live now, then we’ll come back with a final version that should iron out most issues.
“Baffling names” … should we be boring and call them what our competitors call them so new customers can understand? Or should we brand our own names? Did you know what “Twitter” was? Or “Facebook”? Or how about “Intellitxt”? I can continue on with the examples, but you should understand our angle here. All of our products begin with the first part of our company name “Link”, then it’s followed with a short description or acronym of the product. In the age of text messaging, the majority of people would abbreviate a product we call “Multiple URL Rotating Link Ads”. So we called it “LinkMura”. Make sense? (seems like a gimmick?? that was a give up answer…hehe)
I agree there needs to be a level of easiness to what we do and trust me when I say we are constantly working to make things easy. The easy thing to do would be to make each product it’s own site/service, but we prefer the one stop shop and many of our customers that know our system would agree with us 100%.
The biggest thing that helps us are great customers like you that do the work to help us explain our products and give feedback. To that, I send a huge “Thank You!”.
Thanks for the response. Glad to hear it from the horse’s mouth.
“Horse’s Mouth” haaa… I guess I’ve been called a lot worse.
That wasn’t an insult!
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