Affiliate Programs

You’ve probably all heard about Text Link Ads. If you haven’t let me do a quick explanation.

Text Link Ads sell companies text links on websites. They’re a link broker. They will buy text links off of Webmasters and sell them to advertisers.

If you’re a blog owner or Webmaster, you may be able to make money with them.

In this review of Text Link Ads, I’ll be review their program from the Advertiser side, as one who’s bought text links from them.

I’ve used Text Link Ads for one of my new websites and one for my local business’s.

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This story is like an old episode of “As The World Turns”. A few days ago I posted about Googles updated Adsense TOS and how they were tightening up the TOS and how it seemed they were trying to nudge out the competition and force publishers to choose between the higher paying Adsense and the newer and start up contextual networks like YPN and MSN.

Jensense spoke with Brian Axe (the senior product manager on the Google Adsense Team) and he told her:

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Google Adsense TOS has been updated and things are getting a little tougher for Adsense publishers.

Competitive Ads and Services In order to prevent user confusion, we do not permit Google ads or search boxes to be published on websites that also contain other ads or services formatted to use the same layout and colors as the Google ads or search boxes on that site. Although you may sell ads directly on your site, it is your responsibility to ensure these ads cannot be confused with Google ads.

From where I’m sitting, it looks like Google is forcing publishers to choose between Adsense or YPN or MSN. Google knows they have a huge majority of the marketshare in this sector and that most of us will choose Google Adsense over the others.

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