The Linky Love Army is a blogger friendly paid to blog army. Forgive me for sounding like I’ve got the rose tinted specs on, but I am impressed with the way they work with bloggers. Ok, they’ve got an improbable name, which is probably why most people call them the LLA, but the name comes out of the wedge blogging concept. The idea is that when bloggers review products and services, they also link to other bloggers who have done the same and those bloggers benefit from more traffic. In the LLA, being at the thin end of the wedge is a good thing, because you’ll get more blogs linking to you.

That aside, it works like many other paid to blog companies. You login to the bloggers’ interface, which is very plain. Click on ‘view missions’ and you will see which blogging jobs are available. Click on ‘view’ next to each mission to see what links you need to include (mostly, there are three different links, one to another blog, and two to a company) and how much you will earn. Write your post at the specified length, submit the URL using the link at the bottom of the mission details and you’re done.

What you earn depends on their assessment of your blog. I have several blogs with them and for my last mission, pay ranged between $5.50 and $10 for posts on the same topic. As with other paid to blog companies, each post must be unique.

What I like about the LLA is:

• they are quick to approve your blogs and they explain the reasons for rejection in a nice way. Adding blogs is very easy and you can input relevant keywords so that you get missions that suit your blog
• they pay fast – I did two missions on Friday and was paid on Saturday
• they respond to emails – I asked about not getting missions, got a nice reply and found four new missions when I logged in
• they have a referral program for blogger signups and posts
• they keep coming up with new ways for bloggers to earn money
• they are blogger friendly – I know I said it before, but it’s worth repeating

The Army speak doesn’t do much for me, but that’s only a personal niggle. Apart from that, I have found the LLA to be a great company to deal with – and they’re not even paying me to say that.