Comments on: Text-Link-Ads Network: An Advertising Program For Complete Fools?

By: Joe Cole

Joe Cole — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:04:56 +0000

@Zac Davis
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By: Mary_Freebies

Mary_Freebies — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:08:01 +0000

Not very kind of you to call those people who made you a few dollars richer, fools.

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By: Puneet

Puneet — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:05:35 +0000

good post … i will also try out TLA and lets c how much it can get cash with some big budget fools out there … lol

good suggestion to MMO .. keep us updating with such real tips to MMO frd

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By: Critical Illness Specialist

Critical Illness Specialist — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:26:32 +0000

TLA is not bad though wat you said in the post makes complete sense!!!

By: Double Your Money Within A Month | The University Kid

Double Your Money Within A Month | The University Kid — Sun, 18 May 2008 14:56:51 +0000

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By: Zac Davis

Zac Davis — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:54:18 +0000

I think they are suckers, though, considering they aren’t even looking at the site they are trying to buy links from. Also, what plugin are you using to allow the purchase of links and such like that? I want to implement it into my blog. I also just bought a text link from you

By: Steve McGrath

Steve McGrath — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:05:34 +0000

Having bough advertising from TLA last year for one of my site, I can say that advertisers are not fools. I don’t do that anymore. Here are a few points:

- TLA don’t show first the site to advertisers anymore. So, they only know about the cheaper price after the fact and IF they visit your blog.
- It’s convenient for an advertiser and save them time. Imagine if they would have to deal with 100s of sites directly. Where would be the saving for them?
- They are buying anchor text links and PR juice not traffic
- Your new PR4 may turn in a PR0 because you are selling links and Google don’t like that. Remember late last year when people got slapped for paid post, selling text dofollow links? Cross your fingers they don’t see that.

About the marketplace:
I’m building a blog directory(free/paid)/marketplace because I see the need for that like you mentioned above. I’m a blogger too and want advertisers to find my fellow bloggers and offer them direct advertisement or paid review deals. More profit for the blogger.

Now, the problem is that bloggers need to register(free) but most don’t. I know submitting is not perfect(working on that). I still want real blogs. I even refunded a guy because he added splogs instead of real blogs. My point is that to have a real marketplace for bloggers, I need real blogs and they most register so that they can modify their blog info later on.

Note: I’m sponsoring one of the current contest prize.
Good luck on that to participants

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By: Jacqueline

Jacqueline — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:37:21 +0000

Great post. They may have big budgets, but I don’t. You are offering an unbeatable value to advertise a text link on your site (at least at the current time). Well, I was happy with the 125×125 spot. The reporting was great – I knew exactly how much interest (and clicks) my ad got. I’ll be in touch about a link

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