I have a blog directory with a pr5 (homepage) and 10 available spots on my homepage for text links. I signed up with textlinkbrokers.com and they offered $21 a link per month for my homepage. They also offered $25 Per HSM Page (pre-sell page) that I host on my site. The Washington Post did a write up on them, so I figure they must be reputable. I was wondering if anyone had ever used these guys? If so, how long did it take for them to fill your ad space?
Let me get this straight. They will pay you $21 a link per month to have their ads on your site? Hmmm. For a PR5 page maybe adsense is better in comparison, depending if you have enough traffic. I use this TextlinkBrokers in a different way. They pay me $5 per link they want me to place in my links directory. So far I have made about $750.00. Links were coming thick and fast at the beginning, but now not so many. Time to compare your offer with Adsense. Have you got Adsense running yet?
I get approx 1500 unique visitors daily. I tried Adsense, but because it is a blog directory my keyword density is being effected by all of the blog related keywords and those keywords pull cheezy ads that nobody clicks on. I actually responded to another post about textlinkbrokers and textlinkads yesterday. This morning another forum member said he does not see much from either of them. I suppose I will just wait and see what happens, I can't do anything else.
If you focus your blog a little better then you will see an improvement in the AS ads. I found a trick a while back that really helped the relevancy of my ads and increased the CTR. Make sure your keywords are in your title and also add a copyright message to the bottom of the post with your targeted keywords listed in the copyright, such as copyright 2006 -- Your Keywords here. Then if you start posting series of articles on similar subjects, then the ads should start to pay off for you. Of course these is assuming you do have a theme for your blog, if you don't then you need to have theme before any of this will work. hth Bruce
Thanks for the input Bruce. I actually put my keyword in the copyright data in the footer of all my websites, and it does work well. But my site is not a blog, it is a Blog Directory. My primary keyword is "Blog Search", so my homepage is optimized for that keyword. That keyword in itself pulls cheezy ads nobody clicks on (can't change my keyword though, because I rank very well for it). As far as all of my other pages, people who submit their blogs to my directory use a lot of blog related terms in their descriptions, so again, keyword density is creating a problem getting good ads on my pages. This is why I am looking for other avenues to monitize the site.