I’ve been trying to get my head around TNX tonight. I’ve been signed up for a while and have been attempting to figure the whole setup out, but without much time to actually sit down and learn the ins and out of the service, I’m left feeling a little confused. You could put it down to laziness, but when it comes to products like this, I have little patience for gaining an in-depth understanding of them.

The service basically offers a way to buy links for both money and points, as well as selling them on your blog. I added my blog to TNX in the hope of getting some free links. I got 2,000 free points by signing up and leaving my details on the Digital Point forums. I started a campaign with TNX but wasn’t really sure what I was doing when I set it up.

I wanted to get as many links as possible without having to pay any money, so I targeted PR0 and PR1 sites. The price of a link ranges from $0.06 or 50 points for a PR1 link to $6 or 5,000 points for a PR7 link. I don’t know who in their right mind would be selling PR7 links for $6.

When you create your campaign and target websites, you choose the PR of your links, the number of Yahoo backlinks of the website, the site category and the language of the site. It’s a simple enough concept. You then upload your adverts leading to different pages of your website. I found this process time consuming so gave up after making about eight creatives. It’s difficult to understand exactly what is needed when making a creative unless you see what an ad looks like.

I ordered 140 links with my 2,000 points, but so far only 14 of those have become active. I put the required code on my blog and you can see it in action at the bottom of the page. I’m a bit confused what I actually get out of having links on my blog, because from looking in my TNX account, I’m only earning nine points a month for each of those links. Given that I could sell 1,000 points for $0.64, I’m unlikely to make any money soon.

I have less than 500 points left from my original 2,000 and I have no idea what will happen when they run out. I also don’t understand why a PR0 link I’ve bought costs 300 points, but my PR0 link is worth only nine points. What am I missing here?

I think TNX could be a great service for building up free links, but I just can’t figure out how to effectively utilize it short of spending money on buying links, which I don’t want to do right now with a service I don’t fully understand. It is a fairly new service, however, and I think that if you have the time to sit down and work out what you can do with it, it could prove valuable.

The whole points thing is confusing though. I think they should ditch that and just have everything sold in hard currency. I haven’t read about anyone who has actually made any money from TNX yet.

Although I’m yet to take the plunge, you can buy points for between $0.63 and $1.26 per thousand points. You can get lots of points for relatively little money. Makes my 2,000 points look a little sad.

TNX also offers an affiliate program that pays 13.3% of all affiliate’s points earned and 5% of income. I’m yet to start promoting the affiliate program.

I’d say try TNX, but don’t expect to make any money. If you want to get free links like I did, head over to Digital Point.

Tags: Reviews by Angel
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This week, I decided to take a step back from blogging like a maniac and get my priorities straight. I was trying to blog on eight blogs at the same time. Obviously this was never going to work. So I’m selling the blogs that I started and have no time to keep updating.

I’m already starting to see some profit because there is clearly a market for setting up start-up blogs. People are often too lazy to start their own blogs. Even for low-traffic, low-income blogs, you can still make a profit.

I decided to concentrate all of my efforts on two or three blogs because by wasting my time on other blogs, I was taking time away from writing for guaranteed payments. I was in the ridiculous position of writing content for myself for nothing and putting off writing content for other people for money.

As of this week, I’m not going to waste my time starting multiple blogs. I was fooling myself into believing that the more blogs I started, the more money I was going to make. It doesn’t work like that unless you can 100% commit to blogging, which I can’t.

The lessons here are obvious: don’t take on more than you can handle and get your priorities in order or you will actually lose money.

Tags: Internet income by Angel
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I was curious to see much people were offering for content-writing jobs, so I left some forum posts around the Internet offering my writing services and waited for a response from people. I got a LOT of messages, which proves straight up that there is demand for content writers.

The problem, however, is that people expect so much for so little. Compare the job of a writer with that of a designer. There is a guy on Digital Point who makes web 2.0 logos. He made my logo and a dozens of others around the web that you will have seen.

This guy charges $10 for these logos. He does a great job and he can turn one around in less than the time it would take for me to write 300 words of content. It’s no effort on his part, but his time is valued more than that of a decent writer.

I had offers of $70 for 100 posts and $3 for a 500-word article. As well as offers like this, you have people making posts questioning why the Internet content writers they employ suck. Here’s why: people are offering peanuts.

I would not write an article (about 300 words) for anything less than $10. When you look at magazine works that pays at least three times more in Thailand and even more in other countries, you have to put it in perspective.

If you are going to go down the content-writing route, don’t sell yourself short with dud offers. Compare to a ppc program that pays $0.01 per click. Sure, you could make money online, but it’s not going to happen any time soon.

Tags: Around the web by Angel
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