Text Link Ads unveils Shopping Ads CPC program
I was surprised to see an email from Text Link Ads yesterday singing the praises of their new CPC ad network, Shopping Ads. I was actually a bit excited to see the unveiling of this new product.
Angel, as a current TLA publisher I wanted to send you a private invite to our first ever CPC ad program called ShoppingAds! ShoppingAds is a cost per click ad product powered by the major shopping comparison sites. SA allows you to display relevant merchant offers in the form of an image and a text description to your audience and every time a visitor clicks on the ad, you get paid.
I followed the link and tried to sign up right away. I was, apparently, already a member. As it turns out, this looks to be a joint venture between Auction Ads and Text Link Ads, but the difference between this and Auction Ads is that you are paid per click, an average of $0.20 they say. Also, the ads aren’t going to auctions; they’re pointed at online stores, so you don’t need people to buy anything to make money.
As with Auction Ads, you select an ad block, customize the colors and then choose the keyworks you want to target. I think this service shows great promise because it doesn’t rely on conversion like the ailing Auction Ads. As you can see, the ads look quite swish and I’d except a high click-thru rate with a bit of tweaking.
I’m going to jump right in and replace Adsense with Shopping Ads on one of my blogs because I like the idea of getting paid per click. It will be interesting to see how Shopping Ads does competing head to head with TTZ Media.
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4 Responses to “Text Link Ads unveils Shopping Ads CPC program”
Does this mean that they are bowing out to Google? Shifting their market would be a good withdrawal strategy!
That thought did cross my mind. For Auction Ads, such a move makes sense because AA has gone right downhill since it was sold. Text Link Ads is probably about to be majorly shaken up with the new Page Rank system. We’ll have to wait and see.
I tried it for a few days, but then I got annoyed with how it looked so I removed it. Also, they seemed to return 404 for me a couple of hours yesterday, which made my decision stand. It looks much worse than Widget Bucks for example.
Did you not notice, or just ignore the confidentiality notice in the email, btw?
i have remove all text link ads and related stuff. Don’t really like their works. Anyway angel, you got your PR status too, congrats!