Text Link Ads

If you have a website on which you run Google ads, I would recommend taking a look at Text Link Ads as an alternative or a complimentary service.

Text Link Ads is essentially a text link broker. They connect high quality websites with folks who want to buy text links. The main criteria for being accepted by Text Link Ads as a publisher seems to be your page's Google PageRank. PageRank is one of the methods Google uses to determine a page's relevance or importance. If you don't know your Google PageRank, check it here. PageRank is listed from 0-10 with 10 being the highest. I'm not sure what your PageRank needs to be in order to be accepted by Text Link Ads, but the higher it is, the more likely they will accept your site.

After your site gets accepted, you will install a small bit of code into your website which will server up the ads. Next, Text Link Ads will begin selling the links on a monthly basis. You can choose to approve or deny any Text Link Ads sold prior to the links being published on your website. You receive 50% of the sale price for each text link ad sold off your website. Pretty easy.

Text Link Ads looks at a number of factors when determining the sale price for the text links on your site. A summary of these criteria is listed below:

Traffic of your website - the lower the Alexa ranking, the higher the price.

Link popularity of your website â€“ the more links (and more quality links), the higher the price.

Theme of your website - there is more demand for some themes than others.

Number of links to be sold â€“ the fewer the number of links on a page, the higher the price.

Sitewide or single page placement â€“ â€œsitewideâ€ vs. on a single page of your website (slightly more value given to links that appear sitewide).

Location on the page - more value when the links are placed in an area where they have the best chance of being clicked.

Here is a general idea of what the ads look like implemented into a website.

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