Like a lot of other weblogs this “Web Development Blog” has lost today 2 points in PageRank (went from 5 to 3). A week ago I had the idea that this blog will get a PR6 based on the information I got via the Google webmaster tools. After reading about PR drops from Andy Beard, Tim Nash, Darren Rowse and several others I noticed that all of them (including me) thought the reason could be some link sales. So maybe all of us tried to sell a link some time ago?

Text Link Ads

I think most of all websites with content for webmasters link to this website because they pay $money for referrals and I saw a lot of high quality blogs on their “Link Market Place”. Maybe is the affiliation with TLA is the reason for lot of this PR drops. TLA has a PR zero since several weeks and was maybe one of the first sites getting a PR drop (edit: they got a penalty from Google, you can’t find them on their company name). I remember me that TLA has send us new affiliate links using a TinyURL; some action to safe what was left? I removed my website from the TLA market place because I never earned something and also the prices from my TLA competitors are so high that I can’t believe that there are a lot of people making the “big” money there. I know some webdev site with a PR6 (or 7) was selling links for several hundred $ a month, this website has a PR 4 now.

I think Google has indexed the whole TLA market place and will change the PageRank for the listed sites now or later. Maybe is the affiliation with TLA already enough to loose PageRank points (who knows).

Victim or offender?

For those who sold links in a large scale like some paid directories I understand that Google has give a penalty to those sites, but what about those site from blog owners never sold (active) a link? In the past a high PageRank was a kind of compliment from Google to the owner thats he has done a good job in SEO. Today I need to think about every link placement if it’s maybe bad for my website.
Is this how we need to work in the future doing the work for search engines because some logarithms doesn’t work for 100%?Similar Posts:

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About 3 month ago a lot of TLA (Text Link Ads) publishers got an invitation to join the new publisher service AuctionAds. This program is smart way to show ads eBay auctions without to be an eBay affiliate. After using these ads for more than a month it’s time for short review.

First of all the account functions are very easy to use, showing reports and generating new ad code is done within no-time. There are reports for campaigns and for different time periods about impressions clicks and earnings.
I like the ad code generation tool at most, you can choose from the most common standard banner sizes to get an ad for every place on your website, blog or forum. Choose what the color scheme you need and most important you can choose the keywords for the auctions you want to publish. There are also advanced keyword and price options like:

• Select only auctions from advertisers you want
• Show only auctions where the price is equal to minimum and / or maximum
• Rotate ads for different keywords

Good points

• Payment is very fast, at the first day after the previous month (if you reach minimum amount)
• Ads for almost every keyword and category
• The generation of easy to use JavaScript code
• They provide referral link code

Bad points

• I can’t see how much earnings I have from my referrals
• The website has some downtime during the last weeks (I guess they have solved this problems the last days)
• Campaigns cannot be renamed

I think AuctionAds is a very good alternative to monetize your website even if you don’t have thousands of daily page views. How much you can earn? A lot, just imagine that one of your visitors has won an auction for a car or other high priced stuff!Similar Posts:

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