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!
10 Responses to “What Will $35 Get You With Text-Link-Ads”
Thomas Sinfield
October 2, 2007
Sounds like it went really well!
|I might have to check this one out. But I will wait to use the offer on a new project I am working on.
The Make Money Online Guy
October 2, 2007
I hadn’t thought about advertising with TLA on other sites. I have them on my sites and make a nice bit of cash each month.
I will have to read more on this method to make more money online. I really do like to make money online without the need to spend. It helps me show my clients how to earn without reaching into their pockets all the time to try new things.
|George
October 2, 2007
I just found your blog. Nice experiment.
I am curious…
Did using TLA affect your Search rankings at all?
|Paul B
October 2, 2007
Good question. This site is so new that search rankings are still in the hit and miss stage (1 day top 10, next day nothing) although my search traffic is constantly on the up.
When things level off I”ll do the experiment again but this time monitoring rankings. Until Google come up with a definite way of punishing paid links then I suspect that the effect will only be positive.
|George
October 2, 2007
That is what I would expect. If not on Google, then maybe on Yahoo or MSN.
All the best,
|George