Time to try the new advertising scheme
Ivan | Mon, 2006-06-12 06:02
Text Link Ads is a fairly new system which is similar to Google Adsense's Link Unit ads.
While on Google each link unit displays a list of topics that are relevant to your page and when users click a topic, they're brought to a page of related ads, on Text Link Ads you're selling your ad space and you are payed by space rather than by number of clicks.
While it may seem that this system is a bit dated compared to the automated relevant links Google Adsense generates, I think there is a potentially huge market for Text Link Ads, especially for relatively low traffic blogs that won't make much money with Google Adsense link units. You get payed something between 100-400USD/month depending on the popularity of your site for one link unit. But, because I just signed up for it, I can't confirm weather it works as advertised. Will report about how well it works in a month time.
There is one thing I certainly like about the Text Link Ads site, it just looks sexy and Web 2.0. Much nicer and relatively easier to use than Google Adsense.
I have a few reservations though. One thing is that the way the Text Link Ads system is set-up the displayed links tax your server CPU by reading a local XML file. Google Adsense in this sense is superior, because it doesn't put any burden on your server, however most people experience a slight delay in displaying them.
The other questionable issue is whether this system will artificially inflate the advertisers search engine ranking. It would not be fair to be able to buy yourself links that artificially make your site more relevant to certain search queries. I'm not sure how is this handled with Text Link Ads, but I know that Google Link Units do not contribute to search engine ranking. Perhaps a rel="nofollow" attribute would solve the problem?
If you're interested and have a website, I would be grateful if you click the referral ad above to sign-up as a publisher (Make money), because I'm supposed to be payed a referral fee of 25USD. Again, will see how well this one works.
I'm hoping that this system will bring some cash in for you and of course I would appreciate you comments about your experiences.
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Ugh,,,, those new systems SUCK.... when I think there is a link bam.. i'm off to some crappy sales page..
Not to mention they look ugly wince there are so many on a page that make it look like a box of text littered with action links in blue... Well from what sites i have seen thus far..
Please make creative bits front page have a little more to read before you use those
workys --->> http://filmsandwich.com/
They're actually less intrusive than Google ads, and you can select any color for them.
i can't get text link ads to work on my website...
the xml feed is empty...
Patrick Yan
patrickyan.net
You need to be patient. It takes days or even weeks till the first one appears. Just leave the code there and one day you will receive an email. I had the same issue and a few days ago I got a link...
Hey, I think text-link-ads is doing something very similar to this text link selling/purchasing site. Text-Links.ca
Not sure what differences there would be except that they're different companies. Text-Links.ca looks like it's quite new. I've been trying them on my own site. Pretty easy to get set up and installed.