Sell Your Own Text Links & Reviews With OIOpublisher

It’s no secret that two of the biggest ways to make money online are selling text links (Text Link Ads) and paid reviews (ReviewMe). It’s also no secret that these services take a hefty chuck in the form of a commission for facilitating the sale.

In an effort to cut out the middle man, and keep all of the money, a few brave individuals have went the route of selling links and reviews themselves. If you have a big enough audience, you likely won’t have any problems finding advertisers to purchase them. And several plugins have even been developed to help you manage the process including Wordpress BankRoll and WP Text Ads. However, if your one of the majority of websites and blogs out there, you will likely need the marketplace these bigger, commission based, services offer to help you find advertisers.

Another problem with aforementioned plugins is that mainly only cover one aspect, links or reviews. And in the case of WP Text Ads it will cost you $127 for the plugin. A price some may have a difficult time recouping quickly.

Get the Best of Both Worlds

OIOpublisher is a total advertising system aimed at blog owners and webmasters that allows you to sell paid reviews and text links directly from your own site. Meaning that there are no middle man commissions, you get to control what and how you sell, and you keep 100% of your earnings.

To help advertisers and publishers find each other, OIOpublisher has launched their own marketplace. Currently the OIOpublisher Marketplace is a bit sparse (72 publishers at the time of writing this), however, it is still new and I would expect it to start filling up quickly.

As I said before, OIOpublisher doesn’t take a commision, and this includes sales facilitated by the marketplace. When an advertiser buys from the marketplace, they are actually making a purchase direct from the publisher via the Wordpress plugin. Currently, OIOpublisher is only charging for featured listings in their marketplace. Featured listings are $19.95/mo. and will get your listing above all the regular folk on any relevant searches, as well as your selected category. See how “The Chow” is listed above little old me in the screenshot above?

As a special promotion, OIOpublisher will give free life-time regular listings to anyone who submits a listing within the promotional period. After that time, a nominal fee of $10 per 6 months listing will be charged per submission.

How Do I Get This On My Blog

OIOpublisher currently offers two solutions, a WordPress plugin and a fully hosted version for those who aren’t using WordPress.

WordPress Plugin
Installation of the plugin pretty straightforward. Just download, unzip, upload to your plugins directory and activate. After activation you will now see a “Business” tab in your WordPress admin. This is where you will configure your settings, enter pricing information, and manage/approve links and reviews. One of the nice things about this plugin is it has a “test mode” that will allow you to buy links without actually buying links. Great for testing placement and overall functionality.

Fully Hosted Version
The hosted version of OIOPublish is very similar to the Wordpress Plug-in. Only instead of managing through your WordPress admin, you will be managing through the OIOPublisher website and have a URL to link to from your blog.

OIOpublisher Affiliate Program

OIOpublisher also has an affiliate program that will pay you 20% of any marketplace listing purchased by someone you refer. This is a reoccurring commission so every time one of your referrals makes a purchase or renews a purchase, you receive 20%. A potentially nice passive income.

Participation in the affiliate program is included when you sign up for a free OIOpublisher account.