It’s been another busy month here at WordLinx with lots of new features introduced, like our instant payments and new download store pricing structure. Many are still in development, like our automated banner system and new junction site.
Amount Of Adverts. Many of you will have noticed that our advert numbers have been steadily decreasing since the start of the world financial crisis. WordLinx relies on real advertisers only, which is how we’ve managed to stay online for such a long time. Only paying out when real money comes in. However, if people have less money to spend, this means less advertisers and less paid adverts.
We are working very hard to address this issue. We will soon spend thousands of dollars building and promoting a new junction site, which will be created specifically to attract new advertisers to the network. This will boost paid advert numbers to record levels and members will be able to earn more than ever before! Work has already started, with major coding planned for the beginning of next month.
Download Store 1.1. As well as a few minor changes to the backend, we’ve radically changed our download store pricing structure. Prices are now much closer to other stores like iTunes, with all products available for less than 200 credits! ($2). We’ve also added many new products. Login and visit http://wordlinx.com/store
New Banner System. Our banners have been manually maintained since the site began. This takes up a great deal of time, which could be better spent doing other things (processing Manual Payments, etc). In the next few months, we will implement a new way of creating and showing banners that will speed up the whole process.
Banner display time will be available for purchase in days. 100 credits a day for Basic, Verified and Premier members, and 50 credits a day for Pro members. This works out at roughly the same prices as before, but with the ability to show your banner for a much shorter amount of time. You’ll be able to login and view your banner adverts just like your text adverts, then allocate time instead of visitors.
Twitter. We announced last month that WordLinx now has its own Twitter page. We now have over 400 followers (!) and more join us every day. Twitter helps us to keep our members up to date on new features and other news snippets that are too brief to add to our blog.
If you haven’t heard of Twitter, or don’t understand how it works, we recommend you watch this video. You can see our Twitter timeline here http://twitter.com/wordlinx
Instant Payments. These are now up and running, and the system has been used by many members already. A recent study showed that Automatic Payments (paid instantly) may actually cost you less in fees than our Manual Payments (paid within 30 days). Please read point 6 of our General FAQs for more information.
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