Thoughts/comments/stories/competitors of Text-Link-Ads?

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I put a link on one of my sites from text-link-ads and forgot about it...then I kept getting rather nice PayPal payments for the little work and management. Since then, I just increased my linkage and already sold more links.

What's your experience with text-link-ads?

What are their quality competitors?

Any advise or tips?
 


I have had little success with tla, and all the links I sold were rather cheap ones. They are a good set-it-and-forget-it technique. The links that actually sell are the ones in competitive markets, poker, forex etc.

An alternative is tnx.net, I recently joined them. Their links are way cheaper, but they are less picky with page quality, more focused on quantity. They claim that their code leaves no footprints for google to penalize. They have no autoapprove, which is bothersome.

I suggest that you put up tla for high PR quality pages, and tnx for the crappy, "wholesale" pages.

A hint is to put 3-4 links for tla, no more.
 
Before I was doing well with PPC on affiliate offers, I made a whole bunch of niche sites with affiliate offers and built up a few decent backlinks for each. Now, a little more than two years later, I've stopped updating most of them. A lot of the affiliate links are probably invalid by now (I should really hire someone on Elance to get rid of those pages and make a few more to replace them).

The traffic they get is pretty high quality, as all the sites are very specific and have some kind of retail/shopping focus. All of these sites are running TLA.

With an average PR of 3, the sites are bringing in an average income of $30-50/month each with 6 slots open on most of them. It's not exactly making me rich, but between the TLA and the affiliate income that still comes in on them, it's more than a lot of "professional" people earn at full-time jobs.

So yeah, I like TLA. Making money for little more than remembering to pay your hosting bill is always nice. I definitely agree with glowleaf, though. If I did a larger number of lower quality sites, I would probably look into TNX. They seemed a little too sketchy to use in conjunction with quality pages - but that's just the impression I got when I looked into them a while back.
 
I've been using TLA for about 2 years now but I don't sell links through them anymore. However I still have about 15 active links on my old sites. They are the reason why some of my websites dopped from PR6 to PR3 (first to PR4 then to PR3). I think Google can detect links from TLA pretty easily. A few months ago TLA did some changes to protect their customers but I don't think it helped. G slapped my sites with lower PR anyway. Therefore I don't use TLA on any new sites anymore. The old links still keep bringing cash though.

I use one other service for selling links - textlinkbrokers.com. Their system is a little bit ancient compared to TLA but on the other hand their links are less likely to be detected as paid links by G. I get also slightly higher payout with TLB. It takes more time to maintain links sold through TLB because the whole process is manual (they send you email to place a link, you agree, place a link, log into the system, confirm link, they approve it etc.).

That being said I wouldn't use TLA on any serious website.
 
i've had decent results with buying links using TNX...never tried TLA but heard google was detecting all of their shit
 
glowleaf said:
I have had little success with tla, and all the links I sold were rather cheap ones. They are a good set-it-and-forget-it technique. The links that actually sell are the ones in competitive markets, poker, forex etc.

An alternative is tnx.net, I recently joined them. Their links are way cheaper, but they are less picky with page quality, more focused on quantity. They claim that their code leaves no footprints for google to penalize. They have no autoapprove, which is bothersome.

I suggest that you put up tla for high PR quality pages, and tnx for the crappy, "wholesale" pages.

A hint is to put 3-4 links for tla, no more.
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Thanks! Signed up under your broker code and posted on a small directory to get a taste for this service. We'll see how it goes.
 
stroz said:
i've had decent results with buying links using TNX...never tried TLA but heard google was detecting all of their shit
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I have no doubt that the sites I use TLA on could have higher Pagerank, but since all I use PR for is to sell links, I don't really see that it matters as long as the traffic continues to come in. I haven't seen any of my sites zeroed out for it, though, so maybe they don't hate it as much as PayPerPost? Maybe because the content itself isn't compromised...?
 
Put up 5 links on text-link-ads and my traffic has dropped about 15% in the past week. Not sure if it's related.

Tried out TNX and their links didn't seem to have anything to do with my website content. Also, didn't like the point system.

Signed up for textlinkbrokers.com; however waiting to see how my traffic stats improve since the TLA changes.
 
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