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TLA vs TNX, Round 2: Fight!

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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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2 Responses to “TLA vs TNX, Round 2: Fight!”

  1. Alex Says:
    October 20th, 2008 at 8:17 pm

    It is not possible that TNX would sell 5 links (instead of max. 4 links that is allowed) from any page of your website(s).

    You may want to do a better research on your caching plugin.

  2. Glowleaf Says:
    October 21st, 2008 at 5:42 am

    Yes Alex, that is why I said “writing this with caution”. I haven’t looked into it.

    It’s probably a glitch. Your service is still cool, don’t worry :)

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