Why Text Links Used to be The Preferred Advertisement Vehicle

Back in the days when Google hasn’t cracked up on text links yet, text links were the preferred advertisement vehicle. Big and small web sites alike were very active in the text link industry and text link brokers had it made. Although Google has long since announced their displeasure over the widespread buying and selling […]

What is a Text Link Broker?

Let’s go back to the basis of the text link business. We’ve discussed some ways to get text links and negotiate on a face-to-face basis. However, we’ve also discussed text link networks such as TNX.net and Scratchback. This time, let’s have a bit of an atavism and pretend we don’t know anything about text links […]

Using Text Link Ads without Getting De-ranked

This month, I’ve blogged about what everyone else was blogging in the blogosphere — Google de-ranking web sites and blogs selling text advertisements. Understandably, everyone was in uproar over their lowered PageRanks. I, myself have been an unsuspecting victim, my two PR3 web sites getting hit and getting de-ranked by 1 PageRank. I took it […]

When Is Less More?

When a person owns a website that is able to sell text links, he or she often has the urge to rush to sell as many as possible to generate the most possible income. While this may seem like a good idea at first, the truth is that there are many reasons why overselling is […]

Basics to Determining Selling Prices

In the past few days, we have discussed the basics to how much to pay for text links. While this blog has not, and in all likelihood will not, provided exact numbers to pay for text links, guidelines and procedures were provided to determine such information on your own. When it comes time to sell […]

Remembering To Return Favors

Now this might seem like a little premature, seeing as how the beginnings of this blog have dealt with starting up sites and blogs, but after some time, if you are lucky enough to have a successful site or blog, you may find yourself bombarded with link trade and purchase requests. If and when this […]