Affiliate Network Review: Logical Media
It’s always a good thing to explore other affiliate networks, even if you are happy with several you’ve already joined. This will only open up different possible revenue streams to you. That’s what I just did with Logical Media. I had really never heard of it before, I just saw another website using them (copied their tracking code). This has allowed me to reach over $100 in earnings already.
Logical Media
Most affiliate networks are similar, but little things set them apart. With Logical Media, their offers seem to set them apart.
Logical Media has interesting offers that I haven’t seen on other networks. Most of them are freebies and free samples, which always seem to convert well for me on It’s All Free Online.
What is good for me is that they have special offers almost daily. These offers run so well on the network that the budget of the campaign often runs out in a day or two.
$25 Sign Up Bonus
It’s always a plus to have incentive with affiliate networks. Not only does it make them competitive, it usually means more benefits and money for us, the members.
With Logical Media they are currently offering a $25 bonus when you sign-up and get approved. The approval process only took about a day or two. It did not require a phone call (those can be annoying).
The downside though, is that the minimum payout is $100. I always like getting paid really as I earn, like with some affiliate networks that pay bi weekly, with low minimums.
However the $25 bonus will definitely help you reach that $100 goal.
Referral Program
Logical Media offers 5% of all the commissions of every approved affiliate that you refer. All Webmasters/Affiliates who sign up through your site/code are tracked in real time through the Logical Media tracking system. If they sign up and are approved, you become a Super Affiliate for their account.
Free Promotional Items at VistaPrint
I’ve used VistaPrint before to get my own promotional items. Customized t-shirts can be expensive, but not that bad if you get them for free. Vista Print offers several items for free, but the catch is you usually have to pay for shipping.
VistaPrint Free Shipping Deal
Now through July 24th, 2008, VistaPrint is offering free shipping for those spending $30 or more.
If you’ve been putting off getting a few t-shirts made, or want to take your offline business campaign to another level with business cards or small giveaways, now is the time.
I could easily spend $30 just on promotional items for this blog! With free shipping you could pick up a few free items as well as save a load with the shipping.
VistaPrint Freebies
Here is a list of free things you can get from VistaPrint:
- 250 Free Business Cards
- 100 Postcards
- 25 Small Magnets
- 1 Small Car Door Magnet
- Free T-Shirt
- 10 Invitations
- 10 Letterheads
Have you used VistaPrint?
WPAds WordPress Plugin
We’ve been letting you know about quite a few plugins lately. We wrote about 5 WordPress Plugins That Will Make Your Blogging Easier. That included WordPress plugins like No Self Pings and others. We didn’t mention however WPAds.
WPAds vs OIOPublisher
OIOPublisher is like a souped up WPAds. However, it does cost money, and some bloggers aren’t willing to pay for it. I only bought it using our Blogging Best Buys coupon code and saved money on the purchase.
If you can’t buy OIOPublisher than WPAds is a great alternative.
WPAds Features
WPAds basically allows you to easily rotate banners, text links or really whatever you want to do. Simply enter in the code of the banner or link that you wish to run. Then give it a zone. If you wish for your ads to rotate, simply put several banners in the same zone.
Then enter the code wherever you want whether it is in a post or in the template itself. It will look something like this:
<‘?php wpads(‘Test Zone’); ?’>
You can also choose to have one banner show more times than the other. This is a plus over OIOPublisher which doesn’t have this feature (as far as I know). This allows me to advertise different things and helps me find out which really work.
WPAds is a great monetization tool for new bloggers not looking to spend the money for OIOPublisher. Even using OIOPublisher, you may still find a need for WPAds.
Free BlockBuster Incentive with Entrecard Credits
I hate writing great posts on the weekend since they seem to get less views etc. So what I did last weekend was offer a little promotion with our $5 link sale. It’s still on by the way, you can get more information on our $5 Links Post.
This weekend I wanted to try something a little different. I saw Affiliate Obsession (and John Chow) try to offer some incentive for bloggers with entrecard credits. I thought we might try the same thing here.
I personally love Blockbuster and have had Blockbuster Total Access for over a year now. I’ve been able to rent over 200 DVDs, the value has been great. I want to pass that on to you, plus give you something extra.
If you sign-up to Blockbuster with my referral link, I will not only pay you cash (well paypal) for your first month, I will also throw in 300 entrecard credits.
If you are interested in the deal, please contact me and I will send you a unique URL to sign-up with. This way I can confirm it’s you signing up and that way I can get the payment for the first month to you as well as the entrecard credits.
Recap
Blockbuster is good. Sign-up and I’ll pay for your first month, including 300 entrecard credits. The first one to sign-up will also get a free text link for a month!
Stumble Friday for July 18th
Usually we do our Comment Friday, but as I was pretty late I figured to do this instead. Feel free to leave your articles to be stumbled all weekend. I’ll do my best to catch them all!
In return, I would appreciate you adding my stumbleupon profile as a friend. This should only increase the power of the stumble and let it reach more stumbleupon users.
That means more traffic for you!
Have a great weekend.
Using Yahoo Answers for More Website Traffic
An important thing in blogging successfully is being an authority in your niche. What better of a way to show that you are by answering questions in that niche? Yahoo answers is perfect for that.
Yahoo Answers for Traffic
Yahoo Answers has a great search ability where you can enter keywords to find questions to answer. You can search between answers that have or haven’t been answered yet.
You can also leave your “source” when answering a question. This is basically asking for a plug of your own website. During football season, I try to take a few minutes every week to go through and answer fantasy football questions and give my “advice”. Then leave the URL as my source.
The questions also pose for great post titles and ideas for posts in your niche.
Yahoo Answers Trial
On my poetry site, Words of a Poet, I put my poems, famous poems, as well as song lyrics (that’s basically poetry too). When Brianna Taylor debuted her song Summertime on Real World, I quickly found the lyrics and post them. The next day tons of people were requesting her lyrics on forums and especially Yahoo Answers.
Looking up all the questions on Yahoo Answers regarding her lyrics, I began to tell them where I “found it” and linked to my own site.
From June 26th to June 29th (yeah 3 days), Yahoo Answers sent nearly 150 visitors. The traffic is obviously very targetted as they are finding the exact answer they are looking for.
Of course I got a little lucky to be one of the first to post the lyrics and I only answered questions for one day, imagine the potential.
Answer questions about breaking news in your niche, link to your site, and watch the traffic roll in.
5 WordPress Plugins To Make Your Blogging Easier
Lately I have been installing WordPress Plugins like crazy. Probably about 10 in the last few days. I wanted to share a few ‘new’ ones that I have found from other bloggers. After reading the 15 Most Under-Utilized Plugins for SEO I installed many of them.
Askimet
This is the #1 WordPress Plugin to make life easier as a blogger. This particular blog gets at least 100 spam comments per day. Not sure why it’s so high, but imagine trying to moderate that yourself everyday. Waste of time!
I recently just upgraded this plugin, which is sporting a new feature. You can now automatically discard spam comments on posts older than a month. Check!
TagMahal – Automatic Tag Suggestion
This plugin will simply find suggested keywords you can tag your post with. I am a bit lazy and would like to see more from this plugin. After generating these suggested keywords, I’d like to then click and add them, instead of copy and pasting them in. Still a time saver.
Technorati Incoming Links
I hated upgrading WordPress after finding out my Technorati links would be replaced with some Google garbage. Well if you miss Technorati you can have it back. Simply install the plugin and you will have your incoming Technorati links back in the dashboard where they belong.
Broken Link Checker
We have posts dated all the way back to Nov 2006. We’ve done a lot of linking to try and share our traffic and really promote other bloggers. As we know, many come and go. This has left us with tons of broken links, way more than I had ever thought.
At the time of this post, the plugin has found 183 broken links. That’s after I’ve already cleaned some! How many broken links do you have?
No Self Pings
I already blogged about No Self Pings Please, but I had to mention this again. Ever since installing I haven’t had to deal with any annoying self pings.
Which WordPress plugins make blogging easier for you?
Free $250 FaceBook Ads Credit
I’m not much of a Facebook user. I am rarely even on Myspace. But I am aware that they all have advertising space, whether it is hosted by themselves, or by Google Adsense (myspace uses adsense).
However, when I saw this awesome offer, I decided to get a little acquainted with Facebook.
Free $250 in Advertising
You can easily get up to $250 in Facebook ads credit in just a few short minutes.
The first thing you need to do is register for Facebook Ads.
You will need to enter in payment information, but you don’t need to actually pay anything.
After that you can enter and redeem coupons.
- Click “Manage Ads”
- Click “Billing”
- Click “Funding Sources”
- Click “Enter Coupon Code”
The three $50 coupon codes are:
- T5V6-1JKV-TNH9-2MRH
- 2JXY-WTFK-72Y0-VJ6Y
- R1X5-0NH7-5FXW-5YEC
The first one expires July 31st, the other two expire October 11th.
The way to get an extra $100 is to install the Visa Business Application on your Facebook account. After you do that you will be emailed an additional $100 coupon to the email you sign-up with. That also expires October 11th.
This is great for any campaign you want to run, whether it be PPC or just to drive traffic to an established domain.
Thanks to Matthew of Internet Business Daily and John of Affiliate Obsession for this great deal.