http://www.text-link-ads.com

can you have their ads on your site with adsense?

I think you can, as they don't serve contextual ads.

Has anyone here tried to use them?

Not me :)

so you're not using it still? if you do already, are they better earners compared to adsense in terms of monthly revenue?

I haven't used them, but as far as I know there is no better CPC program than adsense ;)

actually it is not CPC. its like selling text links from your site.

You are right. What I mean is that adsense is better in most cases.

Programs like tla or cpm programs are better for high traffic web sites.

i wonder if olaf is doing better with TLA compared to adsense.

me, they priced the text links from my philippine beach blog at $25/month for each link (8 links total). if they can sell the 8 links, thats $200/month. then we'll split it 50/50 so thats $100/month for me. i saw the other sites with a high Alexa rating selling links for $250/month.

but then it also depends on whether an advertiser will pick your site to place their links on.

It depends on the type of website, I sold never a link on finalwebsites but a few on all4yourWebsite.com

i see. so which earns better for all4yourWebsite.com on a monthly basis? TLA or Adsense?

TLA

how about you tim? whts your say on TLA?

I haven't used TLA so couldn't say other that the concept is a clever one, and I intend to use it in the future on one of my personal sites so watch this space

thank you Nik, Olaf and Tim for your replies.

I use TLA and sometimes people by an ad on my site and sometimes they don't.
I get paid anywhere from $20 to $25 a link.. I've been paid twice in the past 4 months.
So in 4 months I've gotten $45 from TLA and on Yahoo Adsense W/e.. I've gotten $106 for 4 months.

Hi,

20 or 25 dollar is very much, (because you get only 50% from what the advertiser has to pay)

you must have website / blog with a good traffic / pagerank...

Yeah my main website gets in excess of 2,500+ unique visitors on average in a day, with a Page Rank of 5

Was PR6 in the past but had some issues with a host and had alot of downtime, changed hosts and whatnot and hopefully we will get that PR6 back!

cool! I have some sold sitewide ads on a PR5 site with let traffic and het only $15 each link :(

I think it's also related to subject from a website

PR is not so important with them. After all the ads are displayed through javascript. Right?

They use an .xml file to send the urls to your site.. then a php script that calls the urls from the .xml

Oh I see. Probably I remembered this for another company (adbrite)

you're a little wrong my friend :D

TLA accepts only website with a PR because the links are real! :)

Yeah I just realized that ;)

i removed tla from a site of mine. i dont get it how they pay you. first i sold three, and they said my links are worth $15 each (8 for sale). but the three links they sold is only worth $12 each. so my stats say my earnings is $36. when i looked again it only reflects $2 because the links just lasted only a few days but when i looked at my site, the three links are still there on my site for free! so there, i removed it.

Vince, it was better to send a mail to support, Patrick is very helpfull to publisher and advertisers, but maybe now it's to late ;)

maybe i will check their feed in a few days...

Nikolas if you are referring to TLA, I am pretty sure they are displayed as hard links.

I have been accepted to TLA ($25 per link) but their directory of advertisers is very big and small publishers get lost in there; of course the big advertisers that have money to spend don't want to go with small blogs like mine either;  so I decided to take the code off and I have actually managed to sell a couple of links myself ;)

About a month ago TLA announced privatelly a new program which I think advertisers get to pick words as hard links to their sites and publishers actually get to accept them or not (I am part of it but have not seen anything yet).

Another info some people might not know is that TLA are the same company with auctionads.com and reviewme.com (just for you info) 

what is that program?

In general I don't think it is too hard to sell links by yourself, right?

I have used services to sell links in my sites in the past, but nothing helped like a few posts in webmaster forums :)

yes right, I guess you have more sales that way but TLA & co. is less work ;)

youre right. i think if ever i would sell links again, id do it on my own like what Nik does.

Olaf, the program is called inlinks but its not advertised anywhere, but if you are a member they send you the email to download the code for it. (don't know what the deal is and they are being so secretive)

Selling links on your own I think its so much better and it costs less to your client (can actually go so much lower then the TLA program gives you and still get more then they would give you).  I realized setting up a paypal subscription takes away the burden of having to remember when is the next payment due and actually collect it.  So now I am hassle free ....

Still there is an advantage having being accepted in such programs TLA, buy-selltextlinks.com/, reviewme.com etc you have a link pointing to your domain ;)

I guess you mean the new blog post links, they are much cheaper than regular links. These are very new and they didn't have the same functionality than regular links.

But you're right the first site is very hard to get approved.

I must say they are much better than for example Adbrite (not only because these are direct links). I use TLA also as advertiser and must say if you have a good placement you have also a good source and a direct PR4 or higher link from a related site. They are also very straight in refunds if some publisher has removed the link or the whole website :)

while the company is very big you can contact (if needed) Patrick Gavin directly and he is very helpful. Maybe the need to stop sending the welcome letter by ord. mail after every order...lol

There referral programme is quite useful, I've made several hundred dollars so far.

The 50% commission they take keeps me away I will never use them, that's highway robbery if you ask me!

Does google penalize you for selling links on your site?

yes, there is also a special form on the G webmaster site to trport people buying/selling links (selling pagerank)

So what is the best way to sell links? Also, does it hurt your page ranking if you do?

sell ads using JS code ;)

So if my number one goal is quality traffic that wants to read my blog content, what would be the best tool? TLA, something else?

Please remove, my browser hiccuped and I posted a dupe

sell traffic/links via forums, all these programs doesn't work (in my opinion)