One of the more consistent revenue streams that I have earned money from is Text Link Ads. If you have an established website you should check them out. I’m not a huge fan of buying links on Text Link Ads, but I am a fan of being a publisher. Text Link Ads is not my biggest earner, but it just provide consistency due to the basic business model; advertisers buying links to boost their PageRank. Yes, you can buy a link and expect some traffic, but the real reason behind buying text links is to get a one way link on a high PageRank site. The higher the one way PageRank links to your site the higher the boost you will get in PageRank and traffic from Google and other search engines.

Text Link Ads For Publishers
Signing up for Text Link Ads is simple, but I highly recommend only signing up if you have a high Alexa ranking and more importantly a high Google PageRank. If you do not have high rankings you will make little or no money. The higher your PageRank the more money you will make and the more demand for a text link on your site will be. Some of the more popular websites make several thousand dollars for a simple text link and they sell 6-10 links a month. That’s $10,000 a month for some sites for having a few text links on your main page that probably takes up less than 1% of your total real estate.

Text Link Ads For Advertisers
I have had good results boosting traffic by having paid links on several sites, but I have had issues with website owners breaking deals. If you choose to advertise through Text Link Ads I recommend using proven websites that have been with Text Link Ads for a while. Finding websites is simple. You can search by Google PageRank, Alexa Ranking, cost and several other searchers or combination. You pay month to month for your text links. The key is to find sites that you plan on advertising for 6 months or more. Having a text link on a site to boost immediate traffic is not what you are looking for. That should be your secondary objective. The main objective is to get your link on as many high PageRank pages as possible. Some sites offer site-wide links. Choose those over single pages if the cost is negligible. Stick with the site for 6 months or more and you will gain the benefit of having a one-way high PageRank link. I will caveat this. I have heard that Google has started to differentiate between paid links and regular links. This is likely not too hard since websites that use Text Link Ads to sell links place a javascript code on their website and is easily detectable by Google spiders.

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