What Will $35 Get You With Text-Link-Ads

October 1st, 2007 Add Your Comments

I completely forgot that I was supposed to be doing the results of my TLA experiment today. If you missed the first post the idea was to see exactly what $125 ($100 of which would be free as a new Text-Link-Ads member plus the $25 it takes to qualify for the free $100) would get me with TLA. I got slightly carried away and spent $135 instead but what’s $10 between friends?

I ran my ads from the 1st to the 30th of September on a number of “Make Money Online” blogs, the results were very interesting and to be honest if it doesn’t inspire you to sign up with TLA then nothing will.

My TLA Blogs

These are the blogs I chose to advertise on, how much it cost for the month and how many visitors each referred as well as the number of pages each visitor viewed and the amount of time they spent here:-

www.matrixmails.com – $15, sent 130 visitors each of which viewed on average 1.32 pages and spent 1:03 on The Make Money Online Dot Net.

www.5xmom.com – $15, sent 29 visitors each of which viewed on average 1.55 pages and spent 1:13 on The Make Money Online Dot Net.

www.carlocab.com – $25, sent 87 visitors each of which viewed on average 1.45 pages and spent 1:21 on The Make Money Online Dot Net.

wwwjohncow.com – $20, sent 141 visitors each of which viewed on average 2.13 pages and spent 3:16 on The Make Money Online Dot Net.

adsense-tw.com – $20, sent 73 visitors each of which viewed on average 1.81 pages and spent 1:39 on The Make Money Online Dot Net.

cashbulge.com – $15, sent 12 visitors each of which viewed on average 1.42 pages and spent 1:26 on The Make Money Online Dot Net.

www.soulcast.com/tag/blogging – $25, nada, nil, null, nothing.

In total my $135 resulted in 472 targeted visitors in a highly competitive niche. If you’re not an existing TLA customer and take advantage of the $100 worth of free links you could have that same traffic for the grand total of $35 (and that’s not forgetting the $25 I wasted on soulcast.com). At a little over $0.07 per click that’s unbelievable value for money in the “Make Money Online” niche.

The great news as well is that all this extra traffic has resulted in my RSS count growing from 10 to nearly 50, increased Adsense revenue and some extra inbound natural links as people like what they read and link here. So the question is just how popular is your Blog and are you prepared to spend $25-$25 to give it a boost? If you are then you could do much worse than taking advantage of TLA’s $100 offer!

Paul B

10 Responses to “What Will $35 Get You With Text-Link-Ads”

SEO Optimization October 2, 2007

Great find Paul

Now you have the list that works for you and the ones that don’t..if you would want to spend the same amount further, you could continue by replacing the non-working ones with new and keep the good sources. I believe it will help you continue to grow your traffic and even earnings. (crosses fingers for you).
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Koen October 6, 2007

As the others above said, it’s quite a nice strategy. Cashquests also had a post on buying links through TLA, on how to buy 3 links on John Chow’s site for like $17 dollar.

Anyways, it’s great to see all these tips on how to cheaply advertise through TLA on the bigger sites. Too bad on the $25 waste

Thanks for the article, I guess I soon will have to spent $25
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HTML Email Templates August 13, 2008

I had tossed around the idea of signing up for TLA, thanks for letting me know about this $100 offer. I’m heading over there after this comment to sign up. I think this will be a great, affordable source of targeted traffic to my site. Not to mention the exposure of my brand to thousands of people. Thanks again, keep up the good work.
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sms November 13, 2008

Thanks for the post, i have joined this service as a publisher. If you have a sms related site, you may advertise on my site.
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