How I Made $7700 Plus and Still Making Selling Text Link Ads on My Blogs
As the title of this post shows, I’m going to share the secrets that helped me make $7700 plus selling only text link ads on my free blogs. I only used Text-Link-Ads.com ad network for earning this money. Through I’m not much active on most of my free blogs, still I used to get some earnings from this network into my Paypal account for links that I had already sold. So if you have a blog and want to make money from your blogs, I would suggest you check my post about making money selling text link ads here.
I was running Google Adsense ads on couple of my blogs with text link ads (TLA). And I was surprised to know I was actually able to make more money thorough TLA network than Google Adsense. On some occasions, my earnings with TLA network were even double when compared with Google Adsense earnings. Here is a screenshot showing how I made $7700 plus dollars selling just text link on my free blogs created on Blogger.com:
Now let me discuss the whole process I followed to get these magical numbers into my Paypal account over the period of time:
Create Blogs
I started 3-4 blogs around the topics of my interest on Blogger.com. I used my seo skills while deciding the name, titles and descriptions for those free blogs. Once all the my blogs are set up, I started adding high quality and unique content on those blogs as per their niches. So I keep on updating all of my blogs with 2-3 posts every week. When writing about a topic, I used to a bit keyword research so that I can make my blog posts more search engine friendly. In today’s scenario, I would recommend creating blogs on your own hosting as I have noticed blogger team deleting lots of blogs from different niches without any prior notice. You will be more comfortable and will have full control over your blogs if you are having self-hosted blogs.
Link Building
Apart from regular blog postings, I started building some links for my blogs. I used all basic seo techniques like general directory submissions, blog directory submissions, article directories, RSS Feed submission websites, blog commenting etc to build backlinks for my website. I spend lots of time in various link-building processes. Apart from this, I used to do social bookmarking for some of my blog posts. So with regular content update and link building, I was able to get a page rank of 3 or even higher for my blogs.
Submission into TLA
Once my blogs get a page rank of 3 or more, I start submitted them into TLA marketplace by creating a publisher account there. All of my blogs were accepted into their marketplace within 24 hours of submission. While submitting blogs, we should make sure we submit our blogs into relevant categories only.
Links Approval and Publishing
Once my blogs get accepted into TLA marketplace, I just need to wait for the new text link ads placement opportunities on my blogs. As you know websites in all niches need high backlinks to perform well on all major search engines, LTA has advertisers in all categories matching your blog. So soon I started getting requests for text links placement on my blogs. I accepted most of link requests as they were related to my blog contents. This way I keep on accepting link requests on my blogs and keeps on earnings from my blogs using TLA marketplace.
I used selling links as one of monetization methods that I used on my blogs. Apart from text links, I used to monetize my blogs using Google Adsense ads, banner ads, affiliate product selling etc. I used to accept my earnings into my Paypal account most of time. I’m hopeful my success story with TLA network will motive many bloggers like mine to try making money through text link ads and similar kinds of network in near future.
About Author
Anil Agarwal blogs about topics related to make money online, blogging tips, search engine optimization techniques, affiliate marketing, web hosting comparisons and social media websites like Facebook and Twitter on his blog BloggersPassion.com.
Does Google ads and TEXT ads can be placed on same site?
Ya we can place text link ads and Google Adsense ads together on a website. Text link ads are nothing much just regular links like we place links in bloroll sections on our blogs
I use on my site. Seems to be a very good system. Thank you maxblogpress.
will this work for gambling related blog? I have a few good blogs with PR2+ but have found it difficult to get adsnse type ads on them as google adsense dont allow gambling related ads.
thanks Caleb, just looked at the hop adbuilder on clickbank and looks pretty easy to implement. Thanks again
Ya, you should be able to sell some text links on your gambling related blogs via TLA.
doesn’t Google ban you from the SERPs if you use text link ads (TLA)?
Nope, you will not see any negative impact in your website rankings. The only thing you should take care is linking out to related websites only to make things look natural to your website readers and search engines
My only qualm with these results is that they were accumulated since 2007…but when compared to just month to month the numbers aremnt too encouraging plus as Allem above alludes to, Google looks down on text link ad selling.
Can you provide more clarification on these issues
TLA is god, but we must high pagerank to participated, i make more much money than TLA from this:
http://tinyurl.com/4hx5wj3
thx
Hi Anil; Your points are well taken. These are the very steps we follow. TLA AND Google Adsense are a nice combination for earning money. It takes building a blog that draws search engines and viewers alike.
TLA qualifications require lots of popularity, traffic, and ranking.
Does TLA accept a blog with PR under 3?
Generally they don’t accept PR 2 blogs. Chances of your blog approval into TLA becomes stronger if you have a blog with high traffic, Alexa rank and RSS Subscribers
Before rushing to TLA to register your blog, I recommend everyone to Google, Google + Ban + TLA.
And you will see why TLA is a NO, NO
I don’t see any problem with any of my blogs due to selling text links via TLA. LTA provides plain HTML code, so no one cannot really predict if they are normal links or paid links.
Cool, will have to try out TLA. Thank you for sharing this.
Making money through text link ads was a great usefull point you made and it works so thanks for that.I would like to expand on this as i use adswaps to build my lists very fast and i find it more effective then text links and gets you JV’s at the same time.Making money then becomes so simple.