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Double earnings per referral!

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Have you just missed out on some easy cash? Login to http://wordlinx.com and click My Account, then click Update Profile / Change Settings and check the ‘Receive email’ box and you’ll get paid to read updates like this one! Earn up to $0.05 for every paid email.

A few months ago, on our 6th birthday, we announced a list of changes to WordLinx that would improve things for both members and advertisers. Over the last few weeks we have implemented these changes one by one (see below). However, this week, we are putting something major in place that will affect thousands of members – 10% per referral click and 10% per referral credit purchase for Verified members! This includes Verified Plus members!

Verified/VP members currently get paid 5% per referral, however to increase the amount of new members and advertisers we will now set this to DOUBLE the amount! That’s right! If you have a Verified/VP account, your earnings from referrals will be twice as much from this Friday!

Best of all, Verified membership is still only $10 per year, or $59 for a lifetime upgrade (Verified Plus). This offers incredible value, as many of our competitors charge up to $99 for just one year! WordLinx gives you much more for your money too, as all upgrade levels come with enhanced targeting, added features and credits that can be spent on advertising, or on products from our download store.

Here’s what we have completed so far…

  • More paid adverts for all members! Available!
  • Basic members will earn 5% per referral click only. Scrapped! Basic members will still earn 5% per referral click AND 5% per referral purchase!
  • Verified and Verified Plus members will earn 10% per referral sale (up to $50 per purchase!) and 10% per referral click. This week!
  • Premier membership will be removed. Done!
  • Pro members will earn 20% per referral sale (up to $100 per purchase!) and 20% per referral click. Coming soon!
  • Advertisers will no longer have to subscribe to target verified buyers and members by age, gender or location. Done!
  • Targeting features will be available to all advertisers who will pay a new flat fee of 10% plus $4.99 USD (still very cheap!) Done!
  • Pro members will pay just $0.01 USD per visitor (no fees!) Done!
  • 500 visitors package will be removed and a new 2000 visitors package will be introduced. Done!

And introducing, for upgraded members only, Tier 2 and Tier 3 stats! As all members can earn from referral upgrades on 3 levels ($0.50 per referral upgrade or $1.00 per upgrade for Pro members) we thought it only fair to reward our Verified, Verified Plus and Pro members with stats to show their full downline. We hope to have this up and running very soon.

In other news, we have adjusted our criteria for selling referrals, so there are now enough available to sell regularly, instead of just once a month. A limited amount of referrals are put on sale at a different time every few days. The exact time is posted on our Twitter feed, to give all members a fair chance of buying.

As usual, a huge thank you to all our members, advertisers and Twitter followers for making WordLinx such a success. Over 6 years online, when most ‘bux’ sites don’t make it past 6 months. This is an incredible achievement, and doubly so in such harsh financial circumstances.

If you no longer wish to receive updates in your email like this one, login to http://wordlinx.com and click My Account, then click Update Profile / Change Settings and uncheck the ‘Receive email’ box.

WordPress.com (update)

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

It’s been about a week since our blog was removed from WordPress.com and we still haven’t had a reply to our messages. We’re very disappointed with what we thought was a professional service and urge anyone considering using their site to think twice.

We have read through their ‘Terms of Service’ several times and can not see how we could have violated them in any way. If you don’t take our word for it, you can see cached versions of our pages thanks to Google. Just go to Google and type in ’site: wordlinx.wordpress.com’ then click the ‘Cached’ links in the results to take a look for yourselves. Apart from the new features we have added here, and our users’ comments (which were sadly lost when we moved) our old blog is virtually identical to this one.

What to do if this happens to you. Firstly, don’t worry about your content. It will be safely stored in Google’s cache for a couple of weeks. So if you’re unable to login to WordPress.com, you can still access all your content by searching Google for ’site: ***.wordpress.com’ where *** is the name of your blog. If you are still able to login to WordPress.com you may be able to use their Export feature to rescue your content. However, we found this page that suggests otherwise.

We’re sad to have to post a message like this, but glad if it serves as a warning to others. When your content is on a site that you don’t own, it is at the mercy of its administrators and can be removed at any time.

As you can see, luckily we managed to rescue most of our content and use the WordPress interface from WordPress.org here. Unfortunately not everyone can host their own blog like us. We seriously recommend browsing the web for similar services before signing up to WordPress.com, otherwise you may suffer the same fate. Use at your own risk.

WordPress.com

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Many users will know our blog used to be hosted on WordPress.com. For some reason they have taken our blog offline. We have contacted them to find out why. In the meantime (and from now on) our blog will be here at wordlinx.com/blog instead of wordlinx.wordpress.com

WordLinx teams up with WorldWinner!

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

WordLinx has now teamed up with WorldWinner.com to give members a brand new way to generate money! Simply login and click the new ‘Win Cash!’ link in our member area (or the top banner on our Browse Ads page) and you will be taken to WorldWinner.com where you can play games for free!

Once you’ve registered, you can choose from dozens of popular free games. Then, when you’ve built your skills, you can upgrade your membership to play for big cash prizes! Upgraded players also earn Rewards Points, redeemable for gift cards, cash, or game credits to play even more of your favourite games online!

With over 30 million players and the web’s most popular online games, it’s no wonder WorldWinner.com is the premier destination for free online games. So get ready to play hard, because the road to victory is always paved with FUN at WorldWinner.com!

WordLinx now owned by registered company

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Rogue, the company that owns WordLinx is now a limited liability company, registered in England and Wales as Rogue Media Ltd.

The new name comes with a new status that gives Rogue protection, rights and benefits. These include the option to sell shares in the future. As a registered company it will be easier to raise money for investment (when required) and customers can be more confident they are dealing with a real world business.

Our PayPal name has been updated, so any future payments that go through our system will be under the name Rogue Media Ltd. This will not affect anything other than the name on your PayPal receipts. There is no change to WordLinx, how the system works, or how payments are processed.

We’re still finalising a lot of the paperwork, but this is a very exciting time for both Rogue and WordLinx, as it opens many doors to new possibilities. If you have any questions about the new company status just leave a comment below, reply to any tweet on our Twitter feed, or contact Support.

Wednesday Winners Competition

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

We currently run a competition on Twitter called the Wednesday Winner. However, we have decided to select more than one person a week to give our followers more chance of winning. Now three people who have recently RTed (retweeted) any of our messages will be randomly selected to win $5.00 USD! The cash will then be added to their WordLinx accounts.

So, how do you retweet one of our messages?

1. Sign-up to Twitter (if you have an account, skip to 2). Visit http://twitter.com and get a free account.

2. Go to http://twitter.com/wordlinx and click ‘Follow’ (if you’re already following us, skip to 3).

3. Select any message from http://twitter.com/wordlinx and click ‘Retweet’ in the right hand corner, and follow the prompts.

Congratulations! You’ve just retweeted one of our messages! You have now been entered to win $5.00 USD. Three new winners will be announced every Wednesday on our Twitter feed with the tag #wednesdaywinners. Retweet at least one of our messages every week to enter. It only takes a few seconds! Winners should contact us via Support, or send a Direct Message on Twitter to claim their prize.

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