Text Link Ads
Text Link Ads is a fairly new system which is similar to Google Adsense’s Link Unit ads.

While on Google each link unit displays a list of topics that are relevant to your page and when users click a topic, they’re brought to a page of related ads, on Text Link Ads you’re selling your ad space and you are payed by space rather than by number of clicks.

While it may seem that this system is a bit dated compared to the automated relevant links Google Adsense generates, I think there is a potentially huge market for Text Link Ads, especially for relatively low traffic blogs that won’t make much money with Google Adsense link units. You get payed something between 100-400USD/month depending on the popularity of your site for one link unit. But, because I just signed up for it, I can’t confirm weather it works as advertised. Will report about how well it works in a month time.

There is one thing I certainly like about the Text Link Ads site, it just looks sexy and Web 2.0. Much nicer and relatively easier to use than Google Adsense.

A questionable issue is whether this system will artificially inflate the advertisers search engine ranking. It would not be fair to be able to buy yourself links that artificially make your site more relevant to certain search queries. I’m not sure how is this handled with Text Link Ads, but I know that Google Link Units do not contribute to search engine ranking. Perhaps a rel=”nofollow” attribute would solve the problem?

If you’re interested and have a website, I would be grateful if you click the referral ad above to sign-up as a publisher (Make money), because I’m supposed to be payed a referral fee of 25USD. Again, will see how well this one works.

I’m hoping that this system will bring some cash in for you and of course I would appreciate you comments about your experiences.