Text-Link-Ads are your best friend.
Written on August 14th 2007
Text-Link-Ads (TLA) are a great money making tool everybody should have on their website. It's very enticing to users on your site because the ads are very un-intrusive and usually blend well with the rest of your website. More and more websites and blogs are using Text-Link-Ads because they're realizing it works. Unlike Google AdSense and they're many "competitors", Text-Link-Ads hit the marked with the one thing the other services didn't offer, and it's paying off big time for them. Now lets make it pay off for you.
Regular Text Ads
The most common revenue source for people at Text-Link-Ads are the regular link ads. You can choose how many you want to display on your website, and where. You also have total control over approval and denial of all ads in your ad-spots. Your website must be approved before you can begin selling ads in those ad-spots, but most sites are approved in a decent amount of time.
RSS Text Ads
The second option you have is to advertise in your RSS feed. A lot like FeedBurner's advertising system, Text-Link-Ads will place ads at the bottom of your RSS feed and you will earn money for every click. This is a great incentive to advertise your RSS feed and get more readers, as well as earn some money from the people who just read your site through RSS.
Referral Program
The last option Text Link Ads provides for you is a referral program. Of course companies are always looking to broaden their user-base, so of course they're (usually) willing to pay you to help them do that. How much will Text-Link-Ads pay you? $25.00 for every referred publisher, and for every referral that results in a sale. Huge potential. They offer a variety of referral banners, as well as a good ol' text links, so there's no excuse not to have a Text-Link-Ad somewhere on your website!
The Bottom Line
The minimum payout for affiliates and publishers is $25.00 USD. You can receive monthly payment via Check or PayPal. Even though it may take a couple weeks for your website to get accepted into the publishers program, you can earn money in the mean time through the referral program. After just one successful conversion you will have reached your monthly minimum, and you can go buy a few beers.
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