If you’re looking for an effective solution to help get your blog noticed then the Contextual Partnership Plugin for WordPress bloggers could be well worth consideration. Perhaps the most attractive aspect is that there is no cost involved.

According to the developers the plugin is designed to;

Drive more targeted visitors to your blog (or blogs) by strategically linking your blog to and from other bloggers participating in the network. The exact method used to achieve this remains confidential but apparently it’s not a basic reciprocal link exchange – nor the more common 3 way linking arrangement often seen between bloggers.

Enhance the user experience for your blog visitors by providing them with links to other high quality blogs for further information on subjects of interest (and it can do this without you actually loosing the visitor which is a great feature).

Indirectly increase your search engine rankings by building highly relevant incoming links to your blog for keyword terms you define, related to your own niche market.

Not a bad indirect benefit at all.

To better understand how the network works, first you need to know what a “contextual link” actually is. A contextual link is simply a link “within content” of a blog post and “within context” of specific keyword terms in that post. For example the term “dog training” found within a blog post becomes a link out to another blog (related to “dog training”) within the network. Contextual Links are found all over the internet – bloggers interlink their own pages contextually, there are paid advertising programs that allow you to place contextual advertising links and earn per click, and bloggers naturally link out to other websites they find useful “contextually” as well.

This is the key to the “Contextual Partnership”. When you install and setup the WordPress Plugin, you’re asked to provide the URL’s you wish to advertise on other partners blogs, and the keyword terms you want those blogs to use to link back to your own. When a match is found within the network for the keyword terms you provide (and assuming it meets with the Contextual Partnership’s strategic linking methodology), a link back to your blog is assigned, and your account has a credit removed.
The amount of credits your account holds appears to be directly related to the number of links you’re providing to other partners in the network for the keyword terms they themselves are looking to use to advertise. Apparently for every link you provide for another partner, you earn 1 credit. That 1 credit is then “cashed in” to assign a link back to your own blog from other partners whenever a match is found for your own keyword terms. So if you already have 100 posts in your blog, and each of those pages finds a match to provide a link to another partner, then technically you could receive 100 incoming links to your blog as soon as you’ve been approved to participate in the partnership. You also continually earn more points and incoming links as you continue to blog and add more posts just like you usually do.

That’s the basic overview and you’ll find more specific information on the plugin website including details of many features not mentioned here (like the ability to select specifically which blog posts you want to include – or nor include in the network)…

http://www.contextualpartnership.com

Uptake by the blogger community seems to have been extremely good and this new service looks to become very popular. In the first two weeks of launch the partnership already had over 54,000 individual places to place links throughout the network, and within the first 4 weeks over 10,000 advertising links had been allocated between network partners. This is most likely a result to how easy it is to actually setup the plugin and participate – it literally takes 5 minutes to install and setup – although approval can take anywhere from 24-72 hours depending on the moderation queue as only high quality blogs are accepted to participate to keep out the splogs and spammers.
This seems to be one of those services worth giving a shot for a few months, and by the looks of things the developers have some exciting new features in the pipeline to make things even more effective for partners in the future.

You can find out full details and download the plugin below…

http://www.contextualpartnership.com

Or alternatively you can download the plugin directly from WordPress…

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contextual-partnership-link-exchange-plugin/

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As one of the top fifty affiliate networks in Website Magazine, Logical Media has reached a standard of customer service that many affiliate sites are simply unable to attain. Through the use of excellent placed ads, customer service and daily updates throughout the ads which are placed on the website, there are many reasons that you should consider Logical Media for marketing that can begin to earn you money from the moment you begin using the program.

With the added incentive that bloggers are equipped with, to earn twenty five dollars for signing up for the service, the blogger can begin to make money right away. With many other services, it seems that you are waiting weeks and even months for money to accrue within the account. However, with the instant twenty five dollars, just for signing up – you can begin to see an immediate profit!

With an easy to set-up and user-friendly interface, you can be up and running within a matter of minutes. Through the information which is provided and targeted keywords, ads will be developed that will be suited to your blog, your readers and your genre.

There are many other services which are offered to bloggers, in addition to the paid ad placement that can be taken advantage of throughout the blog. Through the use of valuable referral programs, in which the referrer can earn up to five percent through each referral and the real-time reports which the blogger will have access to, there are many ways that the blogger can learn to better the site – All while getting paid!

There are very few other paid ad placement companies that offer a high sign-up bonus. With the twenty five dollars that is offered to new customers you can begin to see your account move upward, through each click which is made on the ads placed within the blog. Are you seeking a program that enables you to track these movements in real time, while making real money? If this is the kind of program that you think would work for you, consider Logical Media, as the services offered are one of the many reasons more bloggers are choosing the company.

When it is time to get paid, bloggers always get paid on time, and the right amount. Through the use of intricate bookkeeping, bloggers are kept happy with accurate payments, regular payments and a variety of methods which are used to complete payments to bloggers that have signed up for the program. A reliable way to monetize your blog, more and more bloggers are choosing Logical Media.

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The Joker is letting me take this one…

When we first bought and started posting on JOAB back at the beginning of August, earlier this year, a lot of people (including some of the “experts”) predicted our early demise.

So, while shamelessly blowing our own trumpet, but at the same time not saying that we have done anything particularly right or wrong, we make you, our readers, a Top 20 Jack.

And we bring you the facts.

In August, there were 3,571 unique visitors to JOAB.
In September, 3670.

In October, 4774.

In November, 5040

The total no. of visitors in August was 14,434, while in November – 17,141 (with a daily average of: 571.37) & the hits last August totaled 99,348 as opposed to November’s 118,961.

In conclusion (these figures from the cpanel’s awstats) traffic is up over 40% since we took over in terms of the most important stat: unique visitors.
The Google PageRank is the same- PR6.

The Alexa Ranking was 128,875 when we took over. Today, it is: 92,035 – an increase in traffic ranking of over 28%. And Alexa has pageviews up over the last 3 months 86%, while reach per million users, up 9%.
Revenue-: upon purchase: $380 per quarter from Revenews/Shopzilla. Same now. Adsense- beginning to do better using adsense beautifier- average $1 per day, from less than 50 cents per day. TLA- there were 4 out of 8 links sold. now 7 out of 10.

So from a total revenue of approx. $220 in August, we’re now at about $330- an increase of approx. 50%.
Who said we don’t care about the stats or revenue?!

Here’s to you, JOAB readers.

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You’d think that Mr Bloggy would show some unbiased commentary, no? Nothing like sucking up to oneself. Well…there you go. All that time I was think Mr Bloggy was fair-minded and neutral, when in fact he’s been pushing his own petty, selfish little agenda. Damned snake! We don’t buy it for a minute here at JOAB. Insider trading, backslapping corruption at its blogobubble worst. Here’s a little taste of the greasy, slurping twaddle-:

If you know the history of Jack Of All Blogs, you would be aware of the controversies it had been involved in the past. The opinions posted are quite strong, and it’s either you’re for “JOAB” (as Jack Of All Blogs is fondly called) or against it.

Go back to your doghouse Bloggy!![tags]bloggy,bloggy award,joab,bloggy winner,corrupt,insider trading[/tags]

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Askimet is not doing its job. Filtering the bloody spam takes too much time and life is just too short. So we’re shutting down the comments on JOAB for now while we put in some genius plugin that can somehow tell the wood from the trees.

Hopefully, this is a very temporary step. If you have anything desperate that you need to say – please email us here. And if it’s mindblowingly useful and we can’t resist it, we promise to publish it. Of course, you’ll need to be terribly nice and you can expect heavy censorship.

So watch this space…!!

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