TNX.net - Text Link Advertising With a Difference

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Text link advertisement is widely popular among webmasters especially bloggers. It is perhaps the simplest and the least intrusive form of online advertisement. Big companies like TLA have been in this business for a long time, but why is this review not of TLA but of TNX.net? Because- TNX is for everyone. They do not exclude publishers with new blogs and new websites from using their service and making money. Not only that, TNX.net only charges 12.5% in commission from publishers while TLA charges 50%.

For Publisher: You are given a simple code to paste in your blog where you want the ads to appear. TNX works with points system which you can later buy or sell for real money through paypal. The site has a simple and easy navigation to manage your account and approve or disapprove the links in your site. They also have a earnings estimator which will estimate the monthly earning for your site based on the page rank, link popularity and other factors. Here are some of the frequently asked questions and their answers for a publisher.

How do I benefit from adding a TNX system code on my website?
Answer: When system code is placed on your website all the links that are purchased by advertisers will be automatically displayed on all pages that have TNX system code included. Whenever link on your website is sold to one of our advertisers, you get paid. The more pages you have on your site, the more links you can sell. Price of each link sold to our advertisers is calculated upon you page’s search engine rating. Links on all pages of your website are sold automatically, all you need is to place the TNX system code on all pages you want to sell links from.In case you have high ranked website that meets our requirements, we can buy the ad space on your site for a fixed price. Please contact our support team from your user panel with a link to your site and description of an advertising space.

What do I do with points?
Answer: Here is what you can do with TNX-Points:

1. Use them to pay for advertising your website which will improve positions in search engine results.

2. Hold on to your points and watch its price growing.

3. Sell your points to us or any other TNX member.

Can I combine TNX ads with Google AdSense or any other ad broker?
Answer: Yes, you can combine TNX ads with any other advertising sponsor. Your visitors will see TNX ads as direct links (usually subject oriented) to other sites. Even if some context advertising system does not allow combining ads with similar systems, you would still be able to add our code to your pages, because TNX is not context oriented and nobody can stop you from placing a direct link to another site. The HTML code of our ads is not different from a regular link.

Can I use TNX if my website has just few pages?Answer: If the Google PageRank (PR) of your pages is above zero, than there is a reason to join the TNX system. In case your site has zero rating in search engines, you can link to it from other sites so next time when rating is calculated your web-site’s rating goes up. The more websites link to your site, the higher rating your website will get from different search engines.

What is TNX commission?Answer: TNX charges its members just 12.5% both, advertiser and webmaster to cover all expenses including webhosting, moderators salary and the most inmortant - advertising all over the Internet so more people join.

My website is very popular, but doesn’t meet some of your requirements. Will you buy an advertising space on it?

Answer: Most likely we will! Please register and submit your website into the system. We guarantee to review your website within 3 business days.

Will I be able to control ads and links that are displayed on my website?
Answer: Yes, in the web-master’s control panel you will be able to see all URLs of pages that have links and the text of an advertisement against each URL. If needed, you can remove undesirable ads from any page of your website or even block ads that contain certain URLs or text so they are not placed on your website in future. TNX will never approve advertising of drugs, porn, casinos, etc. Check out our advertising requirements so you can have the idea of ads we approve.

Can I use my balance to purchase links from websites of other TNX users?
Answer: Yes. At any time you may become an advertiser by adding your website into the system from the publisher’s menu of your control panel. Your balance (“TNX-points”) will be automatically used to cover all advertising expenses. You can also transfer TNX-points to any TNX user at any time, which gives you an opportunity to sell TNX-points at your own price.

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For Advertisers: Text link Advertising using TNX is really cool. All you have to do is tell them the type and the quantity of sites you want to advertise in (pagerank, number of backlinks, etc) and they will place your link as specified. You do not have to waste your time searching and browsing the whole marketplace for a good deal. Also, you can cancel the deal anytime you want. As far as I have seen, the prices are very reasonable and affordable.

Again, some FAQs for advertisers:

How much does it cost to advertise?
Answer: The cost depends on quantity and quality of links that are placed on websites of TNX webmasters. You are paying for visitors from high quality Internet resources of the corresponding niche. As a bonus you receive long-term growth of visitors from search engines, because quality internet resources contain direct links to your site with relevant keywords. Under such keywords your website will be at the top of the search engine results

What does advertising effect depend on?
Answer: Traffic from targeted sites and effect from search engines depends on the number and quality of links you purchase, and link anchor texts that you choose.
For example: If you purchase 500 links with “chicago florist” phrase in their anchor, Google will display your website in it’s results much higher when someone does search for chicago florist.

If you don’t sell views and/or clicks, how can I evaluate the efficiency of buying ads from you?Answer: When you purchase pay-per-click advertisement the amount of clicks doesn’t say much about its efficiency as well. The main idea of advertisement is to sell the product that is being advertised. Using TNX will get your website to the top placement in the results of different search engines. You will be able to see the effect in just several weeks after you purchse links.
Is it safe for an advertiser to use TNX?
Answer: Yes, it’s just as safe as buying pay-per-click ads or direct links from different websites. TNX saves advertisers time, and time is money

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If you want to register at TNX.net you can register here. You can also post in this thread of digital point forum and get 5000 TNX points absolutely free. You can use these points to buy links from up to 5,000 websites. TNX also has an affiliate program which pays you 13.3% of all “TNX-points“, your referral will earn in the future.

For a site that was launched less than a year ago, TNX.net has been a tremendous success. It currently has over 45888 users with tens of thousands of links being bought and sold every day.

As you can see in the alexa graph above, TNX.net was virtually unknown around April 2007, but it has grown more than ten folds in the last couple of months.

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