Comments on: Textlinkads Review

By: papia

papia — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:15:51 +0000

What would somebody say if he had his site penalized? One should answer this question before considering using these type of services.

By: aj

aj — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:27:15 +0000

Do you mind me asking what the blog was that ripped you off? If it’s design related, I may be able to use some of the “community power” Devlounge has to help you out.

By: Kevin Bell

Kevin Bell — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:39:31 +0000

Avoid reviewme.com
Their “Blogger” reviewed my site, but refered to it through a link using a CGI script which wound up at a 404 page not found site.

Reviewme.com refused to help saying they do not regulate “how or if the blogger links to a site”.

Reviewme.com does not disclose actual names of ownership or CSR reps. Very evasive company. I am in process of tracking down to file complaints with Attorney General, BBB and Merchant Account company.

By: aj

aj — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:08:31 +0000

I’ve never had any problems. My suggestion would be to keep emailing them and keep telling people. Companies respond when their reputation is at risk. Right now they may not really care because it’s an isolated issue.

By: Billy The Blogging Poet

Billy The Blogging Poet — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:33:19 +0000

TextLinkAds owns ReviewMe.com and ReviewMe never paid me

By: aj

aj — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:02:11 +0000

@Ronalfy – No not yet, I’ve been meaning too. I’ll have to do it soon (maybe tomorrow)

@Oli – And yeah, you’re right. That’s why I’ve struggled many times about whether I should manage my own link ads or not. TLA has worked out alright for me, but it has still be limited, as the most links we ever had up at once was 3. Larger sites see 7-8 easy, so you know they’re earning fairly well.

By: ronalfy

ronalfy — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:15:56 +0000

@Oli,

Yeah.. A small blog like mine wouldn’t see the time of day.

@AJ,

Have you looked into Performancing Partners at all?

By: Oli

Oli — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:58:11 +0000

Sorry to reply again so soon but I forgot to mention that the only people that ever get seen when browsing for an acceptable publisher (from an advertisers POV) you’re only going to look at “the best” and “the cheapest”. The range goes from $250 per link down to something like $25 or $10. So anyone not in one of those categories will find it a lot harder getting sponsorship.

By: Oli

Oli — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:54:35 +0000

The model makes it very hard for you to get started though.

I signed up and was offered $100 per link… The problem is people need to go to TLA, find your site, agree with the price.

Meanwhile you have to keep a reserved spot for when these links actually come through. So it makes your site look a little rubbish.

To be perfectly honest, I’d much rather that if people wanted to advertise with me, they come directly to me and buy space that way. They can have what they want and it’ll be server side (so it can’t be blocked — just like TLA) and they’ll get a pagerank bonus from me. The difference being TLA don’t get 50% of the deal, meaning I can take twice as much cash or charge half as much.

It might be worth while if your site is a create-and-drop affair but with blogs, you’re constantly on your site and you could do exactly what their script does just by doing quick edits in your template.