Test Link Ads is a great service and one that I wholeheartedly recommend, not just for selling links on your blog and making money, but also for buying links on other blogs. If you pick the right blog then you can push considerable traffic to your site and also get a quick boost from high-ranking blogs linking to you.

If you have a certain page or post that you want to promote (an affiliate landing page, for example) then this is a great way to go about doing it. The problem with Text Link Ads is that the process of choosing which blogs to advertise on is laborious and downright annoying.

For bloggers

The first problem is that the stats are next-to-useless without actually seeing the blog. What I want to know about a blog before I advertise on it is if it has a large number of comments on each post and how many RSS subscribers it has. These stats are not provided by Text Link ads, so I think mentioning them in a description is important.

What I also don’t like is that you aren’t given the url of a blog until after you have placed an order. When I was looking at blogs to advertise on, I would only go ahead and place an order if I could figure out what the url of the site was so that I could take a look. With many blogs, it was just a case of a quick Google search, but with others, I wasn’t able to find them and passed their offers over. I’d say that you should include the url of your blog in your description.

Placement is key with Text Link Ads. Some people links solely for Page Rank, but there are real opportunities to get traffic and use this to make money with your own blog. This is why it should be made clear on a blog exactly where the text links will be. This can be noted in the description and highlighted on the blog itself. Some blogs offer really sucky placement of their text links, and these were always blogs I avoided.

When advertising your blog on Text Link Ads, make it clear:

• What your blog is about
• What the url of your blog is
• Where the text links will appear
• What your Page Rank is
• How many RSS subscribers you have

For advertisers

The pricing system in Text Link Ads is all over the place. You can pick up some real bargains and get highly-ranked links in decent positions. There are some real bargains to be had. It’s easy to feel intimidated about taking the plunge and advertising your blog for the first time, but it’s an avenue worth exploring by everybody, and Text Links Ads is the easiest place to start your experimenting. The real steal is that if you sign up for an advertiser account now, you will get $100 in free links.

There is no reason why you shouldn’t sign up as an advertiser today and start buying links. As well as text links, you can also pick up cheap, high-ranked links in individual posts on blogs. You have so many options open to you.

So what’s the catch with the free $100? Well, you have to pay for $25 of links yourself. So you get a total of $125 for $25. You can pay by credit card or Paypal, and for such a small sum, you get a whole lot of exposure. You pick your links, view your cart, and then simply enter the coupon code “starter kit” when you go to checkout. Piece of cake. I’ve taken the plunge and I recommend you to do the same.

A word of advice though: check out the blogs you are advertising on to make sure that you don’t use the same anchor text as another advertiser.

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