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I’ve been meaning to give TNX the once over for a while. I’ve played around a little with test link buying and know the importance of links that look natural. Plus I like checking out the twists companies can put on advertising. There has been an explosion of ad networks lately.
How TNX works
The unit of currency is TNX-points. These can be purchased or earned by selling ads on your site. The system is unified, which means you can be a publisher and advertiser at the same time.
Okay, an easier to understand explanation. TNX works like the casino. You buy tokens to get in and can cash them out when you leave. While the tokens are in the system you can buy advertising wherever you want. Any any credits you make from selling links go into your account to sell back to TNX or use to buy advertising.
The amount of points you get paid for a link from your site depends upon the Pagerank of the specific page it is on. This is not a site wide link system. You can choose ads for each page on your web site and each page can have different links.
The unified system is a great way to move traffic from a highly ranked site that makes you no money to a lower ranked site that makes you money. Sell text link ads on the no-money site and use those points to buy ads for the site you want to boost.
For this service, they take 12.5% which is a really low percentage.
Signing up at TNX.net as A Publisher
Then I added a site and waited a couple of days to get it approved but once it was, link sales started taking off. You can block ads, delete them or ban an advertiser from adding any more test links to your site. Everything is ultimately under your control, up to the amount of links you will list on each page, starting at one link per page.
The code is either php or perl, so you need to have a site which is on your own host.
The credits are paid in advance, so removing your site from the system takes a little time, if you want to do that. They don’t recommend just removing the code as that can get your site banned.
Buying Links Through TNX
You can choose links across a range of site categories and Pagerank and they are very affordable because you are not paying for site wide links. You pay for a link from a page at a time.
They even have link generator that creates varying anchor text for your links, details here. It is sort of confusing at first, but after a little playing around with it you can generate a whole lists of text ads. This makes the links look more natural to Google.
You start out choosing categories, the Pagerank of pages you want links from and the amount of money you are willing to pay each month. From there you choose how many links you want from each category. You do not see the actual links. Then your ad is sent to moderation. This is as far as I got in this process and will have to investigate it further.
Pagerank Adjusting
Does anyone remember when everyone was trying to set up tree way linking schemes? Well, TNX takes that a little further by turning links into credits. Therefore the credit from adding someone’s link to one of your pages gives you a way of putting a link on anyone else’s site.
Theoretically, you could use the ranking of lower profit high ranking sites to build the rank of sites you have monetized more effectively. Using the credits earned from one site to boost another.
The TNX Affiliate Program
You earn a hefty 13.3% lifetime commissions on other site owners that you sign. These are paid as credits which can be cashed out or used to advertise one of your own sites. Details at TNX.
Some TNX Resources
How to Rank Number 1 in Google With TNX
Links as Editorial Endorsements
Signup and Get 5000 Free Links
Other TNX Reviews
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You can sign up here (affiliate link).
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This does sound a bit complicated, but so many of these schemes get me confused for some reason, it’s not like I’m stoopid. Thing is, when I stumbled into blogging, I’d only just got my head around html and affiliate marketing, and these days I’m still getting to grips with php and css and javascript and… I’m wondering if the steep learning curve is ever going to level out a bit! P-lease;-D
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Thanks for this great post.
I have been using TNX to sell links from my website since January 2008 and already earned more than I would earn in 5 months by selling links through any other networks.
TNX is definitely the best link network out there!
Will be also buying links later this month. Pretty sure TNX will do great.
I have already told all my friends about this great system.
Bravo, TNX!
This system is complex compared to others, which may be the reason it seems like a win, win situation. Links are cheap to buy and yet you can make a little bit of cash from a site also. There always seems to be a point where a source of advertising like this goes from cheap to expensive but worth it. Just like Adsense. Right now it’s in the cheap phase because every angle has yet to be examined by it’s users. Once competition gets more fierce, I think prices will start rising.
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The learning curve for marketing online can be steeper than it appears at first glance. For new marketers the apparent complexities of the TNX might present a barrier to entry when compared to Adsense as an example. I can however see how there are some distinctive advantages to a systme what allows one to be more flexible in how ads are displayed and where. Once the credit system was well understood it seems that it might afford bloggers opportunities to improve page rank that other systems might not. This post makes clear that this is one ad medium worth checking out when one is focused enough to make sense of it.
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Good point Marvin. It does take some research, a lot of research at times.
TNX is against Googles terms and you will be penalized for using them. That “jeff” guy posts the same thing on every TNX review that he pays for. Quite sneaky. How much did you get paid for this review. I got paid $50.00 and I think you can get more than that for them. You can see my review at my site in the sig.
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I noticed that about “Jeff”, after I checked out a few other reviews.
TNX is definitely not for the uninitiated.
But if you have a few domains spread around that do nothing now and are on a host that spreads the IP’s around, it’s not really an issue.
Everything has it’s use, even when one site in the universe of the internet seems to have the ability to police it with their own rules somehow.
TNX contacted me for a paid review and I refused. I don’t want anything to do with a site that’s basically “selling links” that aren’t nofollowed. That’s why Text Link Ads died, and this is just the next thing to get banned by google…
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TLA is still live. Link buying is also. It just doesn’t rise to the surface too much. I am not just a blogger. I have about 30 domains. There are places and there are times, but not too many people talk about it any more. Here’s a recent post that does:
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/link-buying-in-competitive-industries/
I have used them in the past and I have loved what I have seen to this point. I have used them as both an advertiser/publisher, and same with TLA, and I can tell you TNX has a far more efficient system.