http://www.textlinkinfo.com Text Link information, resources, articles and much more. Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:15:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Banning never solved any problem in its entirety. As long as there's a demand for a particular product, service or good, the industry will exist, albeit underground. The existence of industries relies upon the law of supply and demand. While there are things which should remain banned, text links have ... http://www.textlinkinfo.com/2008/02/01/banning-solved-no-problem-the-law-of-supply-and-demand/ 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 ... http://www.textlinkinfo.com/2008/01/12/why-text-links-used-to-be-the-preferred-advertisement-vehicle/ Text links are a familiar sight on the internet. They are the blue and underlined texts we see on different web pages that will lead us to another page when we click on them. One of the best advantages of text links compared to other links is that they offer ... http://www.textlinkinfo.com/2007/12/26/purpose-and-setbacks-of-text-links/ Ever since web masters discovered that they can use text link to gain site popularity and improve traffic on their site, the debate of whether it is ethical or not to use this tactic has been a hot issue. Text links can influence the results of your search engine ranking ... http://www.textlinkinfo.com/2007/12/22/text-links-ethical-or-not/ Several years ago, using text links to improve your site’s PageRank became popular. But since then, there has been a lot of concerns about the legitimacy of this practice especially since Google started cracking down on sites that used this method. This was further aggravated when it was discovered that ... http://www.textlinkinfo.com/2007/12/15/networking-through-text-links/ From specialized text link networks, let's go back to the basics to be reminded of what link exchange is really all about. It is a fact that the best text links over the internet are usually given for free. These text links are not exchanged over out-of-the-blue inquiries or paid ... http://www.textlinkinfo.com/2007/12/13/why-the-best-text-links-are-free/ 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 ... http://www.textlinkinfo.com/2007/12/09/what-is-a-text-link-broker/ Because of our inherent want to rank high in the search engine ranking pages, we tend to jump in every opportunity we get to exchange links. After all, any link contributes to PageRank juice, right? While that's true, not all links look good in Google's eyes (figuratively speaking, of course). ... http://www.textlinkinfo.com/2007/12/07/the-highly-effective-one-way-links/ Scratchback takes a whole new approach to link selling. If you take a look at their web site, there is no serious marketing pitch to be found. Instead, Scratchback tout themselves as a fancy and fun tip jar alternative. In fact, their FAQ page is riddled with the smiley face. ... http://www.textlinkinfo.com/2007/12/01/new-text-link-network-scratchback/ Despite Google's recent penalization of text link publishers, the market for text link advertisements, thrive. One sample of that is the recently launched text link ads network, TNX.net. Pronounced as tnx as in "thanks" in text lingo, the network has created quite the buzz for itself since its inception. Not ... http://www.textlinkinfo.com/2007/11/28/new-text-link-company-tnxnet/