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Oct 20

TLA vs TNX, Round 2: Fight!

Fire and Forget, Inorganic agriculture, Internet Marketing 2 Comments »

This an addon post to my previous TLA vs TNX preview. Since people liked it so much, I thought I would give some more information on the matter.

Two things have changed since the time of the first review’s writing:

  • TLA has opened their previously “secret” inlinks marketplace to the public.

This move has significantly increased their marketplace, and also decreased the average link price. Buyers can now find the anchor text they want, on old, linked, PR posts, and pay a logical price like 7-9$, rather than the ridiculous 300$ older links.

For my sites, the old inlinks had not wielded a single sale, whereas now, they are selling like hotcakes. I have an average of 1 inlinks sale per week, and those are cumulative, meaning that I expect to reach 100$ passive income in 3 months from the inlinks alone. Not bad, for doing absolutely nothing.

  • TNX has perfomed beyond expectations, selling links steadily. Also, they increased their buyout price.

They have been selling links all this time, without falter, filling up close to 85% of my inventory. Also, they increased their point buyout price by 0.03$, to 0.93$ per 1000 points. It may not seem much, but it adds up. 

Honestly, when I read that they would increase their point buyout price over time, I thought they were lying. Guess I was wrong.

You can also sell points to other users, by checking the first option in “Sell tnx points” page. But I fail to see the use in that. If I wanted to barter all day for selling points, I would sell the links on digitalpoint in the first place. 

Also, a thing I did not mention in the last post, is that the TNX forum has plenty of information about tech issues in various CMSes etc. Personally I had no use for any of that, but it’s there, and it deserves to be noted.

Something that I am writing with caution, is that I am fairly certain TNX has sold 5 links on some of my pages. Their system claims the max is 4. Either this is true, or the code is messing up with my caching plugin. EDIT: I am an idiot. Ignore this.

A little hint if you are buying TNX links, is to ignore their advice to put text around your link. I have seen the high PR buyers put only 1-2 words, just the anchor text, so that may be a nudge in the right direction. Plus the text thingie really screws up the formatting, making it impossible for a publisher to make them look good. They should at least make it standardized, like an xml feed.

All the other points remain the same, TLA is still a pain in the ass to register all your sites, and their other links are still too expensive to ever actually sell. But their inlinks move has changed the scene, because it shows actual constant link sales. The move really put them back on the market.

So, now its a close match. Which one is better, remains to be seen in Round 3. I suggest that you use them both though, they are slightly different in the application.

And somebody tell that idiot who owns tnx.com that he could earn thousands by putting up a single referral link. The waste just tears my heart in two.

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Sep 14

TLA vs TNX

Fire and Forget, Inorganic agriculture, Internet Marketing 12 Comments »

Here is a practical post for a change, I am going to review the link selling and buying service, TNX.net

Honestly, I found the service much better than I expected. I used TLA, and their method of registering pages is a pain in the ass if you have many websites. Also, despite their prices being high, its been months and they sold  only 2 links for me.

On the flipside, TNX truly underpromises and overdelivers. They say they review your website in 3 days, I got reviewed in 24 hours, even less. They say they need 3 days to send your payment, I got it 2 hours later.

The code is truly a simple copy and paste, except if you wanna reduce the loading times by using their other methods (which you should, but the basic installation is noob friendly, and deserves to be noted).

A thing that pisses me off (as well as many other people) is the point system. They have really cheap links, a PR 0 earns you 4,5 tnx points in the travel niche, which is 0,00405$. Personally, I would have no problem at all not having that point system, it would save my twisted mind from the unwilling automatic calculations.

Despite that, they really do sell links, and fast. As I mentioned, its been months for TLA to sell a link for me, whereas TNX started selling only a week after approval. I admit that my sites are not the kind that every link buyer craves for, like a PR 7 poker site, but they are decent, and they simply don’t sell on TLA. I got all the options on, feedvertising, individual blog post and all that crap, but I believe they are simply too expensive. I prefer services that focus on doing what they do, rather than providing a list of other flashy options and neglecting their primary purpose. And that is exactly what TNX does. It just sells links.

I throwed at them quite a large inventory, we are talking more than 50.000 pages in total, with all kinds of PR and linkjuice, and on various categories, even various languages. Higher PR pages sell very fast, and over time, they fill up most of your inventory. Remember to click to increase the links to 4, its a permanent setting, under site options, for each site.

The payoff seems low, but I honestly don’t believe that it is. If I separate the quality part of my inventory, and compare it to TLA, here is the data:

  • TLA was a pain in the ass to register all my sites
  • TLA sold 2 links, for 18$, from which I get 50%. 9$/month
  • TLA took 4 months to sell those 2 links
  • TLA paid me those measly 9 bucks, at the first of each month
  • TNX was a simple copy paste (I tweaked it later, but the basic process takes 2 mins and most will not bother with it ever again)
  • TNX sold 4300 links, for 140$, from which I get 87,5%. 122,5$/month
  • TNX took 3 weeks to sell those 4300 links
  • TNX paid me those, still measly but much better, 120 bucks the next day that I requested them.

The conclusion practically draws itself here.

TNX is an easy, fire and forget method of monetizing your websites. I admit the link formatting is crap, they let you put a few text characters before and after the link, which messes things up. 

How much will you earn? I have no idea, they have a site calculator, check that out. But, the sure thing is that you will sell at least half your available links, which makes them quite reliable. You have to agree, having TLA price your link for 400$ per month means shit if it never actually sells. It only serves for epeen purposes. I believe that it’s possible though to sell 20.000 links in TNX for 400$.

Also, you can buy links from the marketplace. I have not really tested that thoroughly, I just made some cheap campaigns to play around. I was surprised to see a traffic jump though. Getting targetted traffic and an seo benefit at the same time, from 1000 links for only 17$ per month, well, lets just say its good to have that option. I don’t have the campaign running long enough to affect my rankings to weigh the seo benefit, but there is a traffic boost.

And somebody please tell them that “thanks” is written “THX”. Yeah, I know, its a loud trademark.

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