Does Text Link Ads Make You Any Money As A Blogger?

By Jim Kukral • July 25, 2007 • Blog Advertising, Blogging, Making Money Online • 6086 Comments2007-07-26+02%3A44%3A21Jim+Kukral

No offense to my friends at TLA, but I’m wondering, do any “real” low-traffic bloggers make any money using their system? When I say “real” bloggers, I mean 99% of 60-70 million bloggers who get about 100 page views or less a week, or day even.

Again, I’m not trying to bait anyone or say that TLA is a bad solution. I’m simply trying to find out if it works for the majority of bloggers.

In my experience, it doesn’t, sorry. Plus I really worry about the whole follow thing. I don’t want Google thinking I’m selling page rank. Does that bother you?

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Palm Coast→
July 25, 2007 at 9:26 pm #

I’ve tried it out, and found that it’s just not worth it putting TLA on smaller sites. There will always be those people that have sites with authority and high pagerank, and that’s why I think TLA is a lot better to for an advertiser to build backlinks.
Steven Hodson→
July 25, 2007 at 9:39 pm #

I haven’t made one cent with them. I have tried on more than one occasion but I have never even had any ads displayed.
Alex Choo→
July 27, 2007 at 3:42 am #

There’s value in selling text links. But make sure you use the nofollow attribute.

Without nofollow, Google sees it as an attempt to buy to boost PR, and they dislike it.

http://www.wptextads.com/blog/2007/05/17/does-google-hate-paid-links-not-really-says-matt-cutts/

http://www.wptextads.com/blog/2007/05/24/we-dont-hate-paid-links-says-googles-seo-strategist/

The 2 posts above summarize Google’s point of view.
Yehuda Berlinger→
August 1, 2007 at 2:14 am #

Until this week, TLA was my primary earner, now up to $100 a month. I just got a banner ad deal for $150 a month. No complaints about TLA.

Of course, once a TLA is sold, the price doesn’t increase. So I need to find a way to ramp up to more money with limited ad space.

Yehuda
Stentorized→
August 14, 2007 at 7:45 am #

TLA does not work to lesser
traffic Blogs I have TLA
since last year but I do not earned
a single dime at all.
of all affiliates that I entered
This is the only affiliate that it
did not gave any earnings.
Clarks→
August 21, 2007 at 6:34 am #

I had a small blog, and Text link ads didn’t work on it. You need lots of traffic to work it out.