Monetize Your Website Program Reviews 28: Text Link Ads

[Clinton]

This Text Link Ads Review page covers the details of the program and its pros and cons.

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TEXT LINK ADS REVIEW & FEEDBACK

Quick Facts:

1. Program name: Text Link Ads
2. URL: http://www.text-link-ads.com/
3. Country: US
4. Ad types: in-text ads, text link ads (obviously!)
5. Ad formats/sizes: Various IAB-compliant ad units available for text link ads
6. Commission types / Payment Model: CPM
7. Rate per click/lead/etc: Based on unspecified pricing algorithms
8. Payment methods: PayPal, Check, Payoneer, TLA voucher
9. Minimum payout: $25
10. Payout percentage share with publishers: 50%
11. Payment frequency: Instant payments on the 1st of each month
12. Auto-accepts ads / option for manual ad approval: Full control on approving/rejecting ads from being published
13. Setup method: Manual code insertion
14. Skills and effort required to setup and manage: Average skills to setup, minimal skills and effort to manage
15. Time until relevant ads appear on website after signup/installation: Once a site is approved, it is added to the marketplace within 48 hours and be available for ad sales
16. Conflict with other programs and/or exclusivity: Text Link Ads require to be the sole provider of static HTML advertisements
17. Requirements / Restrictions: No questionable content of any kind
18. Coverage and Geographic focus: Global coverage
19. Support/troubleshooting: Publisher relationship management responds within 24hr, tech support is easily reachable
20. Contact info: Contact info, maps and online contact form can be found here

Text Link Ads, also known as TLA, is a large text link ad marketplace that, as their name implies, specializes in text link ad units as well as in-text ads. Full Review of Text Link Ads.

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[Clinton]

On TLA we also have these threads:
Long standing problems with support at TLA
How to sell TLA and not get penalized by Google
Is text link ads still a good idea?
Link Selling with TLA - how to do it properly

[Clinton]

This lot are feeling the pressure from Google's punishing sites for their backlink profile. TLA have modified their system now to require webmasters to delete links on advertisers' demands. Don't delete the link and they will ban your complete site from their network!

Deleting links on demand has suddenly become a huge issue. This is pure backlash from the Google emails warning webmasters about unnatural linking!

[DaveMurphy]

And I wonder how much longer TLA will last now, I've just lost the last of the links I'd sold through them. Does anyone still use TLA and do you still have active links?

[grynge]

And I wonder how much longer TLA will last now, I've just lost the last of the links I'd sold through them. Does anyone still use TLA and do you still have active links?

I only have one site with text-links kind of as a test and it still has 4 out of 4 spots sold.

[Kay]

This is a really interesting discussion. I think we'd all agree that G has been against TLA for a long time. In the past they penalised sites for running TLA ads. Now it seems to have gone a step further in these post-Penguin times.

Will TLA survive? It's possible, but anyone who relies on G is most likely not to bite the hand that feeds them and therefore dump TLA (as I did several years ago). If you don't rely on G for traffic and/or income, then why not use TLA? Whether TLA can survive or not depends on how many webmasters can afford to thumb their nose at G. And there's still a lot of people who chase free traffic from G so my guess is that, given the ultimatum of choosing one or the other, most people would still choose G. It doesn't bode well for TLA.

[Clinton]

I don't know if it's a straight case of a Google vs TLA choice. If you aren't ranking in Google or Google traffic isn't converting for you, are you going to miss out on real $$ every month on the off chance that your ranking is going to improve? I doubt it.

Most TLA links buyers are buying links usually for SEO purposes, but I do see that in the longer term sheer idiotic mass Google worship (and Google FUD) will destroy the sensible business of buying and selling of links for traffic. That is annoying.

But I'm going off-topic here so I'll stop.