Is TNX Worth The Money?

November 12th, 2007 Add Your Comments

Following on from my traffic buying test with TLA I’ve decided to run a similar type test with the fairly new link brokerage service from TNX. Now before Google throw a fit about trying to influence their rankings I’m not. I’m using TNX as a tool to get eyeballs in front of affiliate deals/advertising only, I’m not using them to sell links. This ones all about making money people! In fact the site that I’m pointing them at has no PR and gets very little search traffic (with TNX or without). As far as I’m concerned I’m paying for referral visitors and I’d like to see if using TNX giving any sort of ROI.

TNX differs from TLA in that it’s more concerned with spreading links far and wide, cheaply! One commonly quoted example is the ability to buy 10,000 links for only $11 a month. The flip side of this is of course that for certain content publishers TNX is not going to pay enough, that’s exactly why I’m more interested in buying traffic rather than selling links with them. On the other hand if you’ve got very large low PR websites it could be a great way of adding to your income.

Well the good news is that I’ve been using TNX for nearly 3 weeks now and my initial $30 worth of ads has already paid for itself! I’ve still about a week to go until my first month is complete but I’m seeing using TNX as a new cheap and effective way of driving traffic.

I’ll do a full review of my own personal highs and lows of using the TNX service when my first full month is over next week.

Paul B

5 Responses to “Is TNX Worth The Money?”

jackbravo November 12, 2007

Hmm…clever. i don’t have a landing page yet, so I can’t do it just yet….but ….that’s very interesting. By the way, how’s the PPC with NBA going? I think I’m 5 bux in the hole so far.
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SEO Optimization November 12, 2007

I have actually been skeptical about TNX and never really thought to make a test on how effective the ads with them are. I am neither building landing pages for specific products hence it would be hard to give them a test.

The only “so called” landing page I have is the resource page in my blog so even if I wanted to run a test on that blog it would be hard to track the results. What I might want to do is maybe run the test in another site.

Paul, another thing that makes me be skeptical about TNX is the geo location of most of the publishers and advertisers of TNX, I wonder what country most of the traffic comes from your site?

P.S. I am glad I was not the only one sleeping this past week with the posts (just teasing).
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jackbravo November 12, 2007

uhmmm…correction to my prior comment, i’m actualy 25$!! in the hole. I had “celebrity nudity” as one of my keywords for a cleaning product. Oops!
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Paul B November 12, 2007

@Jack Bummer about the $25! I’m not using PPC with NBA but organic search. One product is doing ok but the other one is 325 clicks with no sales! Zac Johnson has a pretty good guide to NBA with PPC which might be worth a read?

@SEO I’ve just had a quick look and more than 80% of the traffic is coming from the US or UK which is a little bit lower than I normally see but still ok. lol about the updates, I’m doing my best to keep going but there are just much better ways of making money than a blog! If I don’t make $30,000 from this blog next month I’m giving up
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SEO Optimization November 14, 2007

Oh hey now Paul, your goal is way too high for a really short time. What about giving yourself some freedom in writing and creating more categories so you could even blog for things you like and not especially for making money (even tho the domain name is money talk that it requires).

I like the blog and I like the fact that you post about things you have experienced and would not like to see you giving up on this blog. I bet my seo blog makes much less money than yours but I am still willing to keep it live (well at least it pays its own bills).
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