SES NYC This Week

Andy and I will be in New York City this week at the Search Engine Strategies show.  This is one of my favorite shows in one of my favorite cities to visit.  Andy and I both are speaking on Wednesday.  Andy is speaking on "SEM Via Communities, Wikipedia & Tagging", and I am speaking on "Buying and Selling Links".  We also have a booth at the show and invite all readers to please stop by and say hello if you get a chance.  Hope to see you there!

Search Engine Journal T-Shirt Contest

For those of you haven't yet entered Search Engine Journal's T Shirt contest, Loren is still accepting submissions. Winners get their shirt printed up!

Interview with Patrick posted at SEJ

Loren Baker has posted a lengthy interview with Patrick at Search Engine Journal. It touches on Text Link Ads, our new publisher program, SEO and more.

Attn: Magic Middle Re: We want to earn you money!

Interesting article by David Sifry on the state of the blogosphere.  Of particular interest to us at Text Link Ads is this quote on what Sifry calls the "Magic Middle":"At Technorati, we define this to be the bloggers who have from 20-1000
other people linking to them. As the chart above shows, there are about
155,000 people who fit in this group."Our publisher program is accepting quality blogs at a fast rate but we are going to have to do a better job of getting the word out as it looks like there are 155,000 possible TLA publishers in the blogosphere!  If you have a quality website or blog and are looking to make more money please check out our publisher program.

Turn Off Comments for Links

Link building for blogs carries its own set of (sometimes odd) strategies and tactics. Graywolf and Problogger have both posted on how turning off comments on a blog ensures that it gets more links. I have to admit I find the whole thing a bit funny... because it really does work.

Another benefit of this tactic is that it removes the need to deal with comment spam :-)

Publishers Cash In

Our independent publisher network is now open for business and our publishers first monthly payments went out last week!  We spent a couple years of exclusively targeting large publishing networks for our ads and we are now moving into the world of independent publishers.  The program is off to a fast start and we are seeing some nice comments on the program. 

If you are interested in making some extra money with your website please check out our publishing program and let me know if there are any ways we can make it better! 

New TLA Affiliate Program!

LBB Readers, we have launched a new Text Link Ads affiliate program today!  You can place a text ad or graphical banner and you can get paid in two different ways:1.  You earn $25.00 for each visitor you refer that results in a sale.

2.  You earn $25.00 for each visitor you refer that results in their website getting approved into our Publisher Program.

What is unique about our affiliate program is you earn the $25.00 for referring either buyers or sellers of Text Link Ads and you earn the $25.00 right when a publisher is approved to sell links and not when we actually have sold a link off their site which gets you paid faster.

Please check out the program and let me know if you have any questions or suggestions to make it better.  Thanks Again!  Patrick Gavin