After the whole phenomenon with customer support over at Text Link Ads this week, Text Link Ads affiliate program is still alive. Blog About Your Blog broke the news that Text Link Ads was discontinuing their affiliate program until January earlier this week. However, Patrick Gavin, owner of TLA replied and said that the program IS STILL ACTIVE. Gavin continued by saying the program will be receiving a major overhaul in January.
I wouldn’t use Text Link Ads!
First, Text Link Ads users have had their Page Rank lowered. I cannot risk losing my Page Rank on this blog as it is crucial to our advertising appeal. Second, while Text Link Ads has a great refferal program for bloggers, it has been used time over time and there is too small of a market percentage to grab. John Cow has talked about his lack of success with the Text Link Ads refferal program. John Cow is also one of the larger bloggers using that program, if he cannot do well, how can the rest of bloggers expect better results?
Final Thoughts: Don’t be part of the group. Think outside of the box and your affiliate sales as well as your blogs will become much better!
The affiliate marketing is a kind of marketing where the marketing investor has to have business interaction via World Wide Web and the affiliates are too awarded on every pay per click ad. The affiliate program provides an opportunity to have business share, on commission basis.
December 16th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
I lost my PR3, it’s zeroed now, and it was by reason of paid reviews (probably due to PayPerPost)
I read topic about how to loose page rank with using paid reviews on Garry Conn’s blog and gosh - I must say that I feel soooo bad now! Probably, I will close with those paid reviews sites soon and clean up my blog. The feeling when you go from PR 3 to 0 is just so awful 
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December 16th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Inga, Google is being a bitch right now. Don’t stop doing paid reviews, don’t give into Google’s pressure!
December 16th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
I might have to consider not using them anymore.
December 16th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Thought you said you quit Jorge?
December 16th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
that comment was before I quit.
I finally quit.
December 16th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
don’t quit on pay-per-post kind of program~
i rather give up on google~
December 16th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Awesome job.
December 17th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Yeah, the sad thing is that right now I anyway ct stop do paid reviews as that money is only income from my blogs to pay all hosting fees… I am not so good with affiliate programs yet, still lots to learn.
December 17th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
I joined TLA just before my rank was dropped. I haven’t had any ads run yet and its been well over a month. May drop them on my blog and put them on a non-blog site with advertising.
By the way, You’ve been tagged!!
December 17th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Inga, you’ve seen how I’ve turned around this domain I bought with you. Try some of those programs.
Mcangeli, TLA is really hard inventory to sell for a lot of people. I’d be interested to see how they do on a non-blog site. I think it would depend on the niche of the site.
and thanks for the tag.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:54 am
TLA does in fact lower PR. Why? Uh, lets think. Google runs PR, google = adsense, TLA is the bad bad bad compeitor costing google money… hrm….
I hate to say it, but its pretty clear now - TLA and IntelliTxt lower your PR.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
It’s sad….and a shame. However, AdSense isn’ doing half bad.