Buy And Sell Text Links With TNX.net
Many bloggers have heard of Text Link Ads, but not many have heard of TNX.net, a new network that combines the benefits of Contextual Advertising, Text Link Brokers and Relevant Exchange of permanent non-reciprocal text links. I certainly hadn’t until they approached me and asked me to write this review.
As I started to investigate how TNX works, I began to realise that TNX offers a great new way for publishers to monitize their sites and for advertisers to drive more traffic to their sites, as well as improving search engine listings.
TNX Services For Advertisers
By purchasing links on TNX.net publishers get their links displayed on relevant pages, as ads are booked at a per page level rather than at a per site level. TNX make it easy for advertisers to locate appropriate pages, as once a publisher adds a site it is indexed and automatically categorized. All an advertiser has to do is select which categories they wish to advertise in and TNX automatically places the ads. Over 30m pages are available for adverts, so the categories come in handy!
Links on sites with higher Page Ranks cost more, but all links are reasonably priced with 1,000 text links available from just over a dollar. The more links you buy the more traffic you will receive from search engines like Google, as well as directly from the links purchased.
If advertisers wish they can use the available filters to choose to advertise on only high PR sites. Other filters are also available that allow sitemasters to get exactly the type of links that they want:
- Geo-targetting: Choose which language sites links should be displayed on
- Yahoo Backlinks: Allows advertisers to set a min (or max) number of backlinks that a site has to have to be added to the basket
- Google PageRank: Buying links on relevant sites with higher Page Ranks will have better Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) benefits
After making all your selections, all that’s left is to decide how many links you want to purchase. Each link costs a certain amount of TNX-points - more links require more TNX-points.
TNX Services For Publishers
If you want to add links to your site, then TNX offer a very generous revenue share. Only 1 link has to be displayed, but you can opt to have up to a maximum of 4 links per page being displayed. Adding the necessary code to your site is reallly quick and only took me a minute.
To be accepted into the TNX network only two requirements have to be met:
- Website must be indexed by Google search engine i.e. the scheme is open to 99% of sites
- It must not be using free web-hosting services that do not support PHP, Perl or asp, aspx
Because TNX actively encourage advertisers to purchase a range of links, then unlike other schemes where only the big sites attract the marketing dollars, TNX do a good job of sharing the wealth. Also, because advertisers don’t get to see the sites where they’ve purchased links, the links get shared around all matching sites, rather than just a few celebrity blogs hogging all the ads.
Once ads start displaying on your site, then you start to accumulate TNX-points. These can be converted into cash at any time. Or, you can of course use them to buy links yourself. As a launch offer, TNX are giving 2,000 free points to every person that registers, and another 5,000 points for every website added to the network.
Bonus Lifetime Referral Scheme
Even more points can be earned via TNX’s referral scheme. For every site that you refer, TNX will pay you over 13% of every point that they earn - FOREVER! So, if you’ve got any friends with popular websites then email them ASAP to make sure that you get to them before anybody else does!
If I haven’t convinced you to join TNX.net yet then I’d advise popping over to their website, where there is a lot more information available.
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Comment by Scarlett Tarjick on 1 October 2007:
TNX sounds like it is going to be a good company to work with. You should also check out Linkworth if you get a chance.
http://www.linkworth.com
Comment by Annie on 22 February 2008:
If advertisers wish they can use the available filters to choose to advertise on only high PR sites.
Comment by tnx on 26 March 2008:
Do you usually buy many links? I don’t want to overdo it.