Text Link Ads - Don't Bother

A little over a week ago I posted about text link ads. I want to fully revise my opinion on them so I'm writing a new post. For the record I cancelled my account with them, and the only really good thing I have to say is that they did cancel my account when asked in a timely manner. The service seems like a reasonable one, but has several major shortcomings. First of all its impossibly to become an advertiser unless your either in or close to the top 100,000 on alexa, and have a good link popularity. This means it is really only effective for the websites that get good traffic, it is NOT good for those of us who are just starting out. Secondly advertisers can always renew at the same rate if they want to stay on your site. So even if new advertisers have to come in at a higher rate those who stick around could still be paying the same low rate they started at, even if your traffic triples. I think the service is good if you have a big site, but I think the rest of us really need to be informed, don't even bother signing up unless you have the rankings needed. That being said, google adsense works for anyone, it might be slow but at least you earn. Theres a link on the sidebar. :)

-Toraux

Tags: Advertising, Monetize, Text Link Ads, Making Money, Google Adsense, Game, Games, MUDS, Multi User Dungeon, Online Games, Game Design, Programming

Text Link Ads

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As I mentioned last night, I found out about another way of earning money advertising on your website. Text Link Ads works by placing a set of sponsered links on your website, and they pay you per 30 day rotation of each link. You could get $5 for every link on your site per month, regardless of clicks. This has an advantage over google where your earnings rely entirely on the quality and relevance of the ads that they place on your site. There is a disadvantage to this method of advertising, however, when I signed up for the service I was told my traffic does not meet their minimum traffic requirements. Apparently an average of 5 hits a day isn't enough for them ;). The site did offer to periodically check my traffic and email me when I do meet the requirements, so hopefully before too long I will be raking in some extra cash from Text Link Ads. So in conclusion, if you have more web traffic then me you should give this a try and make some extra cash. I hope this helps someone get closer to their dream of not needing to work anymore. Text Link Ads

-Toraux

Tags: Advertising, Monetize, Text Link Ads, Making Money, Game, Games, MUDS, Multi User Dungeon, Online Games, Game Design, Programming