Hello, I was just accepted into Text Link Ads as a publisher, although nobody has 'bought' any ad spots yet :\? Anyone used it before? How long did it take to get ads showing? Thanks,
Really, are you sure? I know Google banned them a long time ago, but I thought that the business was still going strong and they had work arounds that Google was not detecting.
Ya they are banned, but I'm not so sure about Google penalizing sites with there script. It hasn't happened to me yet.
I don't mind sharing. I have a PR3 health blog with roughly 250 pages indexed in Google. This gets me a payment of about $5.00 a month with an assortment of links that they place on my site automatically (only like 3 or 4 I think). Payment is made automatically via paypal every month. Honestly I set it up a while ago, and I've just been too lazy to take it down. You make a lot more money selling links here on DP.
An year before i used to get ad spots sold by them. But these days nothing .... and no replies to the email sent too.... So beware..
What do you mean by google banned them !! i can still see the site present at google http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:Text-Link-Ads.com , and about google shutting down sites with their script i dont think so because it is impossible for google to detect the script it's a plugin works on php side server not a html code ! .
i dont see the site in the organic results maybe google penalized them but its not the case for sponsored results try : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Text+Link+Ads+com&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
Yeah, I think Google removed them from the index a while back, but apparently put them back in. I think that was enough to cool off most enthusiasm for Text Link's product. I'm kind of assuming that Google also developed a way to find and ignore most paid links, because I don't hear much about it. I used Text Link's product before the mess with Google and actually made over a grand on my tiny blog in a year. It was nice money and was much larger than my AdSense returns. That said, factors such as your Page Rank and your sites niche will influence how much anyone pays for links, no matter what the method is to buy those links. If you've got a low ranked site on kittens you won't make as much as a high ranked site about investing.