Text Link Ad Broker Reviews
Bloggers are finding that selling text link ads on their website, is usually much more profitable than Adsense. Another benefit is they don’t clutter up a website and can be a way to sneak in additional income, without sacrificing the look of your site for further profit. There are a few text link ad broker services, but only 3 right now seem to be worth joining. In order to use these sites, a piece of code or plugin must be installed for tracking purposes.
Text-Link-Ads.com - They will manually review your site and based on your alexa, pagerank, and other factors, they will assign a price per link. You will be paid 50% of this(TLA gets 50% cut) per sitewide (or front page only) link sold per month. You can choose how many links you want to display per ad block(up to 10) and whether you want to pre-approve or have automatic approval of ads. Payments are done by Paypal.
Signup for Text-Link-Ads.com
LinkWorth - I haven’t received any text link opportunities from them yet as they are fairly small network right now. They have many other earning opportunities including sponsored posts for bloggers, so that’s why I recommend signing up for them.
Signup for Linkworth
TNX - With TNX you are saling a link per individual page (up to 4 links allowed per ad block). You earn based on the pagerank of each individual page a link is sold on. Unlike Text-Link-Ads.com, which just shows anchor text, TNX also includes a short text description along with it. This makes the links a little messier looking with TNX. You can choose to remove ads you don’t want before they go live, but it can be difficult and time consuming as there is many different ones on each page.
If you have a pagerank 0 site, you’ll probably make more with Text-Link-ads.com because they price it on more than pagerank. If your site has thousands of pages to make up for the low pay on PR 0 pages, then you might actually make more with TNX despite a zero PR.. Based on my experience, for the average site with a PR 2 or PR 3 site with 1 or 2 hundred pages, TNX will make you more than text-link-ads.com. Payments are done by Paypal or Moneybookers.
March 17th, 2008
I didn’t even know about text link ad brokers. Thanks for the info! Can you get ads relevant to your site, for example if you have a bodybuilding forum can you have it so it only shows bodybuilding related links on the pages?
May 21st, 2008
How long do the links stay on your site? Also, don’t forget webmaster forums for selling your text links.
May 21st, 2008
They charge by the week or month for as long as the advertiser is willing to pay for the link.
July 22nd, 2008
I have been using TNX for about 4 months on one of my projects and so far it has worked brilliant. 90% of my inventory was sold through them within the first week and the remaining 10% fluctuates because they are low PR pages which tend not to sell for long periods. I would rate these as better than TLA.
Another one you might want to consider is LinkXL.com especially for blogs.
July 22nd, 2008
I have never heard of LinkXL.com. Thanks for the heads up, Ill check it out.
August 5th, 2008
TLA is the best place to sell links, i have 4 of my sites there, monthly income 190$ not bad at all :))))
December 14th, 2008
wow, $190 a month ? That’s pretty decent. I am getting around $80-$100 on Adsense, but I might give the Text Link Ad Brokers a try. Thanks for the info. Have added your feed to my reader.
Cheers
Thomas