# spinkx-content-marketing
=== Spinkx Content Marketing ===
Contributors: spinkx
Donate link: www.spinkx.com
Tags: content marketing, advertising, native advertising, revenue, monetisation, traffic, SEO, content distribution, sidebar, trending stories, ctr, cpm, pinterest style, analytics, tracking, masonry, user engagement, widgets, sidebar widget, infinity sidebar, headlines, A:B testing, video, video marketing, share, comment, like, campaigns, create advertisement, deep content analytics, engaging content, multisite
Requires at least: 4.0
Tested up to: 4.6.1
Stable tag: 4.6.1
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Distribute your content to get more traffic to your website, accumulate points & monetise your blog. Native ads.

== Description ==

Spinkx has been designed by a team of content marketing experts with an intention to Support & Empower the Wordpress Blogger Community around the World. Content creators can now build a career in the industry and monetise their sites exclusively over the WordPress Platform. We have simplified earning money for your blog, and by boosting your content at your discretion, to get more users to your Website. Our world class tools and strategy is increasing free traffic every minute, resulting into visibility of your content around the world.

Spinkx is a Free Plugin & also has a few paid Features.


Features:

= 1. Increase User Engagement =
On WordPress sites, the most interactive element is the sidebar. It gives audience a quick look into other exciting articles that they will be interested in reading. This engages your audience, enticing them to stay on your site longer. User Engagement is vital, and our plug-in allows you to display stories on your side bar that your audience may want to read.

= 2. Grow Your Audience =
With Spinkx, your content, can now reach out to newer readers on another bloggers sidebar, who uses Spinkx plugin as well. This helps in more visibility opportunities of your stories & increased visitors to your site. You accumulate points when you allow displaying other users content in your sidebar widget & then use those points to boost your own pots as per your category targeting. Envision, a visitor on other blog site who sees your article featuring on the blog’s side bar and clicks on it. Congratulations, you just got yourself a new visitor. This Feature is meant to be entirely FREE, therefore it is not meant for advertising purpose, but only to grow your audience.

= 3. Monetise & Run your own Targeted Advertising Campaigns =
When you have enough visitors you can leverage on running ads and earn revenue. The number of visitors on your site is directly proportional to revenue earned.
Any user of this plugin can run a campaign for themselves or for their CLIENTS. Despite the number of users you may have on your site, the entire network of Spinkx, contributes to fulfilling the need of the clients demand for Visibility or Clicks. In doing so - the Click or the Impression given by other Spinkx users Site for displaying campaign, earns the money. Similarly when you allow to show ad campaigns, you earn money as well. Please note that this is a community driven activity, we only defines rules & standards as it should be. All money for running campaign must be deposited into your own Spinkx Wallet.

= 4. Content - Variation Headlines =
It is noticed by as experienced content creators & market analysts that a content can be have multiple Headlines, Image & Description, however there was no way to do so… When you use Spinkx - you can  go to Content Playlist > Click on Variation Headlines & give your post a NEW Headline, IMAGE & Description. NB your post must have more images to show up and add to Variation Headlines. These then show up on your own websites Sidebar & if Boosted it shows on other Websites Sidebar also. The INTELLIGENCE lies that the plugin is design to get you more clicks & users to your website, so it Automatically promotes Stories & Variation Headlines with high CTR or Engagement Rate and slows down the non performing ones in the global Boosted Space.

= 5. Upcoming Features =
Video Promotion, Social Share, Front End Analytics


A few notes about the sections above:

**NB- Spinkx Plugin is designed to track any BOT activity, Fake Clicks & Impression to advertisements or boosted posts. We ONLY track real users & thus the accuracy & performance of your Posts & advertising in our network. We Reserve the right to BAN any such BOT based activity or any provocative & obscene content from our network. You may do what ever you may like with what ever content in your own sites sidebar - no restriction or ban on them. And FREE to use for life. We do not deactivate this features if you don’t buy or pay for the plugin. However the expenses of running content analytics for your site still costs us money to run on our servers.**

*   The Spinkx Sidebars is completely customisable as per your choice, in terms of design & categories of content allowed.
*   It is at your discretion & allowance completely to show a fellow bloggers post on your sidebar or switch off the feature entirely.
*   Similarly the feature to show native advertisements on your side bar can be off or on as per your choice
*   You can even block, specific URL’s, Words or Categories to display on your sidebar.
*   All ad campaigns are manually verified by our TEAM before they go live.
*   Each Spinkx Registered Website, is targeted with Country of Origin, Language, Gender, and age restricted content.

We provide FREE TRAINING to all who want to use this plugin for Professional Use. Kindly get in touch with us through our Facebook Page or Website - www.spinkx.com

Detailed usage of the plugin, training & Videos are available on your website.

== Installation ==

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

1. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/spinkx-client-wp` directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress
3. Register your Site on “My Site” & fill in accurately your website category, geography, age limit of content & language of your site.
4. Go to Widget Design & Copy the Short code - which should look like this - [ spinkx id=”xx” ]
5. Go to ‘Appearances > Widgets’ of your WordPress Sidebar and scroll to the bottom add “TEXT” to your Main Sidebar.
6. Give this a Heading like “Trending Stories” (or any of your choice) and paste the shorcode below the title space.
7. You widget should now be live on your sidebar
8. Go to “Content Playlist” and you will see all your stories already fetched in for you. PLEASE NOTE - Your post MUST have “Featured Image” & must not be more than 6 months old. Incase your posts are more than 6 months old, you can re-publish them on a current date to show up in the Content playlist tab.
9. The DEMO widget is full feature active, if you want to edit content setting or design you can click on “Widget Design” & go to settings for any changes you may want.
10. Your Dashboard on Spinkx Shows you analytics.
11. If your Website has earned money or wants to run campaign, we must verify manually the authenticity of the Individual, Bank Accounts or Business, so you may need to email us a few documents for verification etc.


== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= What happens after 30 days of FREE trial of all Features? =

None of the features are blocked after the Trial, except for being able to BOOST your own posts or Transferring revenue earned to your bank account. You can continue to accumulate points & revenue. But you will be able to use those features after a purchase.

= Can i use this plugin only to for my Sidebar widget & Not boost posts & earn revenue. =

YES! it free for life

= Are all external posts or ads targeted & relevant? =

YES ! all external posts are targeted as per the category you have chosen for your site. However further refinement of external content being displayed can be managed from “Widget Design” Section.


= Can i get a personalised Training on how to use this plugin and make it a success advertising Business? =

YES ! We support you in all your Endeavours with respect to this plugin or Wordpress. We do a free trouble shooting with respect to installation for you.

== Screenshots ==

1. Front-end Display of the Widget
2. Content Playlist, Boost Post & Variation Headlines
3. Dashboard & Analytics for your Posts
4. Widget Advanced Settings for Content Display
5. Widget Design & Display Settings

== Changelog ==
= 1.1.0 =

* Release date: November 24, 2016

Initial release