Selling Your Own Text Link With WP Text Text Ads

You could do it John but then it would kill the relationships you have built.

sounds like a cool wp plugin though

Before I heard about this a couple days ago, I was planning on making a plug-in like this. However, I was also planning to create a marketplace that would track pings with link cost info so that advertisers could still track the publishers, since that’s a huge part of what TLA offers that makes it so successful. If this plug-in doesn’t end up offering such a marketplace, perhaps I’ll go through with my plug-in as I was planning to do before.

It looks like a wonderful plugin I have to try it on some blogs.

Thanks for the information.

It sounds like the same reason selling your own reviews wouldn’t work. It’s all about bringing the advertiser and the publisher together.

Maybe I am missing the point, but why not just sell the text links directly and create them within posts as you wish without buying a $127 plugin?

How does the plugin accomplish this better than a direct sale, I must be missing something…

It’s true…without TLA, I don’t think I’d be making as much money. So far there are five sites that have purchased a link on my site…and I had none a month ago!

Ahhh, thanks for clarifying John! I’m a lil slow

Great plug-in!

I definitely agree. You cannot get many ads on your site without a marketplace like TLA. I have suffered a lot on my site http://templora.com

But TLA has not sold any links on my site either.

The price for the plugin is a bit too high, I wonder if there will be a lot of people to buy a license… I can write similar plugin in a day (with less functionality, but it will give me the same outcome) and save the money

you will need a marketplace as customer who shop for link would like to compare choices too. But if your website have enough traffic then it would be different

I’m using my own text link ads until I get enough reciprocal links on other blogs to use the Text Link Ads web site. I’ve shared the knowledge how to program the PHP on my blog at http://www.cyprich.com/2007/05/19/make-your-own-text-link-ads/.

I hope this isn’t viewed as a shameless attempt to drive traffic to my site. I want to give fellow bloggers a chance to make text link ads without spending more money than necessary.

Your profits are higher if you keep your costs down.

Will work great with engadget or boingboing (if they ever decide to sell links though )

But right now, tla is the best option for most blogs

I guess if you’re happy with other text link services, you might as well stick with it. I suppose it would be OK to use the first version of WP text ads though — what’s there to lose?

Nice plugin, maybe i’ll use it once i’ll need one like this. Thanks for informing us

Yes, I tried it! It’s great. But you do need either a niche audience or lots of traffic for it to be worth buying!

IMHO

I think it’s insane that text-link-ads charges 50% of the price for the link. I think I would try long and hard to sell links myself before using them. By selling them yourself you can charge less and more money still makes it into your pocket.

I have found it is not easy to get approved through TLA as they have minimum traffic requirements. So I see this as a possible way to earn as much money as TLA as your site is growing. Anything to help the small sites out there! But unfortunately it is at a cost where TLA is free.

It does give dot com wannabes a chance at text ads without having to worry about TLA and high-traffic requirements.

If you have other text ads which does not come the sales route you can use WPAds. I’ve written about it at http://onlinepresence.blogsailor.com/2007/04/28/wpads-have-control-over-your-ads/

Obviously, it does not give the same level of features like what is written in this post, but it can be used for other purposes.

I’m using it quite successfully to control ads from Adbrite, Text Link Ads, etc.

Text link ads has sold 3 ads for me since I’ve signed up and I have to say none of these people would have found me, your site has to be uber popular to the point where people are willing to do it. I offer all the advertising information and for people to contact me but no one does if it wasn’t for these middle man companies i dont think half of us would make anything

I ope this plugin improves and gives competetion to TLA. 50% revenue share just sucks! what do you say?

That’s a lot of $ for a plug in.
Hey, no reason you can’t use both - just to tick people off.

Hi,

I’m the developer of WP Text Ads.

Thanks for writing about this product John. Appreciate it

A very important feature missing in WP Text Ads right now is the user directory. I’m working on it, please give me a bit of time.

To give you an idea of how the directory will look like, I’ve blogged about the basic concept here.

http://www.wptextads.com/blog/2007/05/23/delicious-as-a-marketplace-for-wp-text-ads/

Alex

Oops, I missed a statement made by John - “The first is free but limits you to selling two ads.”

I’d like to expand a little on that. WP Text Ads allows you to sell ads on the home page, blog-wide, and per post. The limitations on the Free Edition is 2 home page ads, 2 blog-wide ads and 2 per-post ads.

If you max out the limitations, you’d have sold this many ads:

2 (home page) + 2 (blog-wide) + (2 * total posts) = total ads sold.

$127 is not a hefty price when you consider that you do not have to pay large commissions.

Of course, there is the *small* matter of finding advertisers.

Folks, your feedback is really appreciated, so please drop me an email if you have anything to tell me. I’d like to create a directory that works for you.

Alex

yea I was reading about this and might end up getting the full version once I have enough good traffic