I've just discovered a service called Text Link Ads which is great for 2 reasons.
The first is that it can help build traffic and increase your Google PR/backlinks for any of your websites. When you sign up and log into Text Link Ads you get a welcome screen whereby you can search by category for websites to buy textlinks from. Or you can view the "Top 25 Text Link Ads" or even search for a keyword relevant to your site.
Real life example: I've just bought the domain Spyware.org.uk and need to get some traffic to it and build some incoming links. So I log into Text Link Ads and search for the term "Spyware". Immediately I am provided with a list of around 50 sites that are relevant to my keyword. Great! You can then view the Alexa Rank, Link Popularity and price per month of the sites you want to feature on. It's really simple, it took me around 5 minutes from opening an account to choosing 4 websites to run my campaign on. Prices range from $US10 a month to $US300 a month and there are lots of choices.
The second way you can earn money is by signing up as a publisher. Again this takes minutes and you can submit the URL of your site that you want to offer text links for sale on and you are away. Again the whole process is really, really simple.
What's more if you Sign Up today and enter the promotion code "new client" at the checkout you get a $100 credit.
Please let me know if anyone signs up to this service, I'm interested in your feedback.
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Affiliate Marketing - Text Links
Welcome to my blog. My name is Kieron Donoghue and I am the founder of ShareMyPlaylists.com.
I signed up for the same service about a week ago. I haven’t bought any links myself but it will be interesting to see how things work out considering my site is only a couple of months old. Quick note on the $100 ‘new client’ credit and that is I found that you had to also spend a certain amount before you could cash the credit. Don’t take my word for that though, I might of just been doing something wrong!
The only restriction is that you must buy at least $100 worth of links – which makes sense. I bought £125 worth and only paid for $25 due to the credit.
hi kieron, hope you dont mind me commenting. one of my colleagues has used these in the past (a publisher). publishers have to be careful about how many links they have on a page e.g. 1/2 links on homepage is very good, 3+ links on every page appears to affect your google rankings significantly. hence as an advertiser be aware that the traffic on the site you are paying for might suffer in the future meaning you might be paying over the odds in following months. overall – by all accounts if you are selective it is a good service
Hi, Signed up this morning after reading your blog.
Paid $25 dollars for $125 dollars of links using the ‘new client’ credit.
Will let you know how it goes
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For SEO purposes webmasters often buy links for their sites. As links from higher PR pages are believed to be more valuable they tend to be more expensive. It can be an effective and viable marketing strategy to buy link advertisements on content pages of quality & relevant sites to drive traffic & increase a webmasters link popularity. However, Google has publicly warned Webmasters that if they discovered to be selling links for the purpose of conferring PageRank and Reputation, their links will be devalued (ignored in the calculation of other page’s PageRank). The practice of buying and selling links is intensely debated across the Webmastering community.
I agree what perrymsb said that you should be very aware of buying links. Earning them for great content is the way it should be done.
I’ve used text-link-ads in the past. I’ve always found them extremely helpful and they are one of the most respected companies for buying links in the industry.
As mentioned though – do be careful, make sure that you only buy them in small blocks as if google catches you it won’t like it – text-link-ads should be able to help you there though.