{"id":40,"date":"2007-07-21T03:25:13","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T07:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/webdesign\/2007\/07\/21\/make-money-using-text-link-ads\/"},"modified":"2011-07-07T23:30:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T03:30:19","slug":"make-money-using-text-link-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/webdesign\/2007\/07\/21\/make-money-using-text-link-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Make money using Text Link Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>Every once in a while I plan to talk about services or affiliate related companies that I use to monetize this site or my other websites and blogs.  One of the companies that I&#8217;ve been working with for at least the last 8 months is Text Link Ads.<\/p>\n<div class=\"6bc5ccbe3d2ff567e8bb701db5576878\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* webstyle_inpost_300x250 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4670586556\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Text Link Ads is a service that helps you monetize your site by helping you get advertisers to purchase link space &#8211; usually in your sites sidebar &#8211; for a week or a month at a time.<\/p>\n<p>I know they base which sites are accepted by a mix of stats which include page rank, Alexa rank and I believe how many RSS subscribers the site has at the time of submission.<\/p>\n<p>I went to test my theory. I&#8217;ve got two sites that haven&#8217;t been accepted yet so I resubmitted them and got the same results &#8211; well let you know when your site is accepted.  Then I decided to try adding my husbands site <a href=\"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\">Guitar Licks<\/a> and it was accepted right away.<\/p>\n<p>The only major difference between my husbands site that was accepted and the two of mine that are still waiting is that his has 8 more RSS subscribers &#8230; yet it&#8217;s a PR 3 and the site of mine that&#8217;s been waiting the longest (6 months) is a PR 4.  I wrote to them to ask them to re-evaluate the two sites that I&#8217;ve had waiting for months manual.  Hopefully they will do that for me because frankly I don&#8217;t see much difference in the stats of the site that was just accepted and the two that are waiting.<\/p>\n<p>My advice is to not try to add a site until it&#8217;s at least a PR3, had a decent ALexa rank and hopefully at least 40 to 50 RSS subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>BTW if anyone wants to subscribe to this sites RSS feed I&#8217;ll be happy to take a look at your site and return the favor.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve added your site and it&#8217;s been accepted you must add a blank xml file to the root of that site. This is where any text ad info will be placed when Text Link Ads sells some links for your site.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>Then you&#8217;ll be asked to set up how you&#8217;d like the links to appear once you have some. You can decide how many link spaces to sell. I think generally starting at 6 or 8 is good. You can also decide if you&#8217;d like the text links to be outlined in a box, if there should be a background color behind the text links and what the link color should be.  I generally only use the text link color.<\/p>\n<p>Oh there is a wordpress plugin that you can download and use on your site if you have a wordpress blog.  I have a few blogs on the same domain. The plugin can only be activated for one site per domain.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve set everything up properly and added the code that&#8217;s been created for your site to your sidebar you&#8217;ll see the words &#8220;Text Link Ad&#8221; in that space for approximately 6 hours. This will tell you that you did everything correctly.<\/p>\n<p>After that there&#8217;s nothing else to do but sit back and wait for an advertiser to purchase a link on your site.<\/p>\n<p>Some people have success almost right away, while others wait months before getting their first text link ad.  Just keep working on your site, maintaining it&#8217;s current quality or improving it and I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll eventually get some links.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisers might also be interested in purchasing Post links. These links are placed underneath a post.  You can only use this feature with the wordpress plugin.  I use the plugin on my main blog Tricia&#8217;s Musings and I&#8217;ve sold a number of post links.<\/p>\n<p>You can approve or deny any text link or post link offers that are made. I believe you have three days to accept.  If you don&#8217;t come to the TLA site and mark the offers as approved or denied I believe the links are automatically added.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never had a link offer that I&#8217;ve denied. They&#8217;ve all fit with the sites that they have been requested on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done well with Text Link Ads.  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