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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September 15th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Ran across this on Sphinn – excellent write up. Honestly, I nearly forgot about TLA. When TNX came on the scene, they were EVERYwhere.
September 15th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
“0,00405$” is not a number. Also, how does 4.5 points correlate to 4.05 whatever?
Anyways, if you sold thousands of links for a little over a hundred dollars, you got ripped off unless we’re talking about links on autogenerated spam.
September 15th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I did not mention that TNX “buys” your points for 0,9$ for every 1000 points. And 0,00405$ is a number. Sorry.
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November 2nd, 2008 at 5:13 pm
TLA vs TNX = draw. Sooner or later one will have his sites penalized by using these services.
November 2nd, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Yeah yeah… Doombringing guys like you are the ones that make it easy for the rest of us to make money.
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May 21st, 2009 at 1:45 pm
agree. Tnx already paying me 26 times. Hoho!
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January 15th, 2010 at 6:40 am
Занятно! Только не могу понять как часто обновляется этот блог?
May 2nd, 2010 at 7:26 pm
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