Text-link-ads: all-in-one blog advertiser / monetizer

Ever wish you could market your blog, and monetize your blog all in one place without using 18 different services? I feel like I have to go to 800 different sites between marketing my blog, tracking affiliate stats, and keeping my budget fairly intact. Text Link Ads offers all sorts of great services, all in one place.

Buying simple text links from high-traffic sites
Selling advertising space on your already popular site
Feedvertising: buying and selling ads in RSS feeds
A well-paying affiliate program

So say I’ve got a fairly new blog (like this one), and I want to market it on other relevant sites, and at the same time get nice, high-PR links back to me. TLA has a great search engine that lets you search for keywords and phrase on all their advertiser sites. You can see where your link will appear, the Alexa rank of the site, and even the popularity of the specific link.

They’ve also added the ability to advertise your site within specific posts. The advantage here is that you can link to a related post on your site to hook readers, and the single-post links cost substantially less. They also offer these service via RSS feeds. That’s a great advantage, since a lot of PPC and affiliate banners don’t show up via RSS.

Once you’ve got a decent reader base to your own site, TLA becomes an amazing way to monetize your site without pissing off readers. Simply add a "sponsored links" section somewhere obvious, and sell those links through TLA. A small site can charge $10-20/month, but once traffic increases, you can charge $50, $100, even thousands for a monthly link. And the links are a lot less intrusive than adsense, or affiliate banners.

Speaking of affiliate banners, now that you’re sold on TLA, talk it up on your site. Their affiliate program pays $25 if you can manage to get your readers to sign up. And as an incentive to potential customers, they offer $100 in free links your first month.

Get that? $100 in FREE LINKS. I bought $131 in advertising for $31 my first month, and received 100’s of ultra-targeted, unique visitors each week.

You can’t lose. Here’s your free $100, just waiting for you.