Text Link Ads (TLA) Network

1. Boost link popularity - this will help the advertiser to rank higher in search engine result in certain keywords

2. Gain traffic directly from your blog - Most blog readers can;t distinguish between a paid link and a natural link and will see it as a recommendation

1. You register a publisher account with Text Link Ads
2. Insert TLA ad code on your blog
3. TLA will list your site in its marketplace and notify you once advertiser purchases a link on your blog
4. You can choose to approve or deny any TLA sold prior to the links being published.
5. Payment will be made to you via Paypal at the end of the month

You receive 50% of the sale price for each text link ad sold off your website through their system. You can incorporate TLA on the same page with any other contextual ad such as AdSense.

Beside selling text link, you can also make money via
1. Affiliate program by referring more publisher or advertiser to sign up with TLA - $25 will be paid for successful referal.
2. RSS advertising - use Feedvertising to expand your income by displaying ad in your feed
3. Post-level links - you can sell separate links on every single post of your blog

1. Unlike other Ads, text links ad appear as a normal text link that links out to advertiser. It won't annoy your readers
2. TLA has a huge marketplace. It already has a great amount of advertisers and publishers.
3. Once a link is sold, it is normally renewed automatically by advertisers. It is almost a perpetual income to the bloggers.

1. When your site isn't big enough, it is hard to even get approval into their publishers network.
2. Even if you merely get in, there are so many publisher to choose from. If you niche is a everybody's niche (such as Make Money Online), it is even harder for your blog to get noticed by advertisers.
3. Google penalized bloggers who sell links in October 2007 with the anti sell links act. For the full story, you can take a look at the report by Andy Beard.

4. Sometimes the advertisers who buy links seem to be a little off topic to what the bloggers write about.
5. 50% commission cut is quite high from many bloggers' opinion.

1. Use the Text Link Ads calculator to see how much a link is worth on your site
2. Link is more expensive on the left
3. Link worth are calculated by Google Pagerank and Alexa ranking. Increase your PageRank and Alexa score will give you more income from TLA.
4. Be careful when you are deciding on the number of text link to be sold. Selling more links means the link will be cheaper, but the potential income is higher if you can sell all of the links.
5. It is better to initially choose to sell only a few links. Because once the advertiser had locked in the low link price, they can renew it with the same price. After some times building your blog, it might grow with higher PageRank and better Alexa ranking. Your link worth will appreciate as well. Only include more links when there are no links available anymore.