How to make money with Text Link Ads

Text Link Ads (TLA), is an advertising model, where advertisers are provided with an opportunity to buy one way text link ads directly on publisher’s website for fixed monthly fee instead of offering contextual links. TLA serves as text ad brokers that sell text advertisements on your site on your behalf. In turn, they take 50% of the publishers earnings. To say the truth it’s really a big percentage, but on other hand you would not get your 50% without their large ad buying market including some of the big internet ad buyers.

Text Link Ads is not like many of the other advertising opportunities. Its unique structure makes it an excellent compliment to other advertising methods already in place on your website. Selling text links ads and banner ads are the biggest money makers that one can find on their blog. For those who have yet to make any money from your blog by selling these ad spots, here are some tips that I would like to share with you to increase your sales opportunity. More detailed information about text link ads you can find on www text link ads com

As a publisher:
1. define your preferred number of links to be sold
2. define the place where on the page the links will be displayed
3. specify whether links being sold will be displayed site-wide or only on the homepage.
Depending on the configuration of each of these settings in concordance with your website’s Alexa rank, Google PageRank your price per link will vary. In order to determine what this value will be, TLA offers a very handy Link Calculator tool.

For the set up your web host needs to be able to process PHP or one of the other server side languages. If you use WordPress then set up is much simpler. You just install the text link ads code It is basically a case of installing some code on your site in the location you want the ads to appear.
The other difficult bit is being able to change file permissions for a file they will tell you to create on your web hosting account, this is where they store the ads for your site. After it is all set up you will not see anything until they start to sell ads on your site so don't be concerned.
It seems to take time for advertisers to find your sites listed in their database so it is worth sticking with them for at least 3 months before giving up.

1. Place your textlinkads on your website the way your visitors will see them. The more visitors will click content link ads, the more attractive your website will be for advertisers. Advertisers may monitor the number of clicks they get from your pages. By improving the positioning of your text link add on your web site you will sell more ads and will get a higher rate of renewal. When a visitor would like to advertise on your site, he will see where his links are placed in. If he likes the position he will go advertising with you, otherwise – sorry, you loose the customer. If you are placing the ad script on your sidebar, place them at the top where your visitors will see it. Of course you are free to choose the positioning of the text links adds, but remember that certain places can get you more money. You can use Text Link Ads calculator to see the cost of the link on your website depending on where you put it and whether you choose to offer a single page or a site wide link. The left side of your page can earn you the most and the link worth decreases as you move to the right side.

2. Place a text ad on your blog after each posts or articles which is a good way to call to action.

3. You may use pay per click programs like Google Adwords, Yahoo! Search Marketing to drive traffic to your web pages so that visitors click on one of the text link ads affiliate to go to advertisers website and if it converts you will be paid.

4. Increase your Google Page Rank and Alexa ranking by optimizing the keywords and Link Building strategies. A higher page rank will definitely increase the cost of the link on your pages and the overall income.

5. Create multiple websites. This strategy can earn you extra income or even double your income from Text Link Ads, but you must be cautious since it takes time to develop and build a content website, a minimum of 6 months is what it takes to develop good traffic site.

6. Increase the number of pages on your blog or website so that the advertisers text link ads will appear in all pages this will attract more advertisers

7. Make the text link ads integrated with your category section. Experience shows that text links ads integrated in ton of navigation items get higher click through rates.

8. Use text link ads affiliate program. Text Link Ads affiliate program is good enough. You can promote the TLA on your website or blog and make money from each registered publisher or advertiser. Ask your friends and acquaintance to signup with TLA through your affiliate link. Tell your friends about the opportunity the internet offers to make money online. It will bring you extra income for affiliate program.

9. Update your category listing: you can now update the category listing in the text link ads marketplace anytime by logging into the “Edit Your Listings” page. Then click on “edit site details” and you will find the category selections in step two of the wizard. You can designate two unique areas where your site will be listed. Choose two categories that describes your website topic the best. This will help you get more targeted advertisers.

10. Place your own links if you have no sales initially. This is one method that many bloggers are using. Some call it cheating, some call it seeding. Whatever it is called, it helps you get some sales. Advertisers are just average human beings like you and me and most likely they do not want to be the first to advertise on your website. They would probably look for blogs or websites that people have placed ads on and they would follow them. Their mindset would be that if someone has placed ads on this website, this website is probably a good place to advertiseon.

11. Give this section any title but sponsored links. If do not want to declare a war to Google, you should not call these text link ads sponsored links. Why? Google detects web owners or bloggers who pay for link in return for seo benefits or traffic. Google believes that web owners build links in a traditional way. How will Google know which website has a sponsored links section in it? Very simple, just do a search and pick out those which has a label called sponsored links! By giving your text link ads section a different name would definitely get you more sale and advertisers who are more 'Google conscious' will feel more secured to place their ads on your blog. You are free to choose whatever title something like: Featured Websites, Favorite Websites, Do not Miss These Websites, I Recommend, etc.. Use your imagination, but do not go with the templates like sponsored links

The primary drawback of using TLA is that you’re losing out on 50% of what advertisers pay for a link, as it instantly goes to the service never to be seen by the publisher. While this is a significant loss of potential earnings, many users consider it worthwhile, as without TLA they wouldn’t have that source of revenue in the first place.
The Search Engines do not like the website who trade links. So be very careful, do not overdo. Be moderate in placing text paid links.