Monetize with Text Link Ads

Monetize with Ads Networks

Why get involved in heavy search engine optimization when you can get the same results with text link advertising? Many website owners face this conundrum right now. The truth is that if you do both, your site may be unbeatable. Or, you may enjoy no benefit whatsoever, as the search engines strive to avoid counting paid text links in ranking any given website. Text link ads are, therefore, a very hot topic.

Text links are links purchased on a website in order to improve the search engine ranking for a specific set of keywords.  Most webmasters also use this technique to increase their Page Rank (PR), although this is frowned upon by Google.

After Google declared that sites selling text links without the nofollow tag would be penalized, this monetization method became less popular.

Many website owners are still using text links to monetize their sites, though, some using the nofollow tag and some not.

The advantage of this method is that it is not intrusive. One can sell text links directly through his website or use specialized networks like Text-Link-Ads and Text-Link-Brokers to automate the process.

Even though Google does not like link buying and selling for the purpose of manipulating its search results, it has no problem selling Adwords on keyword searches relating to link buying and selling.

In fact, Text Link Ads is usually in the top sponsored spot for most searches related to link buying and selling.

The most popular Text link marketplaces and networks are:

DigitalPoint Link Sales Forum
Ad Revenue is shared with the users of this forum. Find more info about it.
What Digital Point has done is setup a system so the ad revenue can be shared between all active members of this forum.

Text-Link-Ads
Text Link Ads (TLA) are the text links that you can find on my sidebar under Sponsored Links, that link to the Advertiser site. Advertisers will find Text Link Ads useful as these are static links without a nofollow and will therefore help them improve their search engine rankings and get them some traffic. Make more money by selling text based ads. Join over 20,000+ publishers monetizing their sites.

Text-Link-Brokers
Textlinkbrokers is a global company servicing the needs of professional SEM agencies and individuals looking for high qualiy link development.

TNX
TNX.net is a fairly new text link marketplace for publishers and advertisers. TNX takes a very different approach than other text link sellers in that they offer a point system as payment instead of a straight cash transactions.

LinkWorth
LinkWorth is one of the web's largest and most innovative marketing portals that caters to both Advertisers and Partners.

ContextWeb
Advertising network launched in 2000. Contextweb recently launched ContextAd, which it bills as "the most comprehensive contextually based online advertising solution on the market today"