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text-link-ads.com is already penalized in google search.

prawn 17y ago
Thanks for letting me know. I run them on a site (TLA gives me $100/mo) which ranks #1 for a number of key-phrases. If I drop down the rankings a bit, I might need to ditch TLA.
- petercooper 17y ago
  I ran them on a site that was making $3-5k a month from Adsense. Big mistake. I got away with it for about 18 months but eventually Google "got to me." Which was quite impressive considering I'd tweaked the hell out of the TLA code to make them appear as natural as possible (even adding my own descriptions to the links). Now I make $300 a month on Adsense if I'm lucky. Oops. The amount of money that revolved around TLA used to be gigantic and it's slumped hard since Google started playing hardball. A friend of mine was a top affiliate of theirs making 5 figures a month in commission - no longer though!
  - prawn 17y ago
    Thanks for the info. I might cash in on my recent TLA earnings soon for an iPad and then ditch it (TLA, not the iPad!). Did anything else happen around the time of that big drop in revenue that could've explained it? I've seen big fluctuations in my payments over a variety of sites that usually come back to becoming complacent about content, competition becoming stronger, leaking PR through outgoing links, etc.
    - petercooper 17y ago
      Not really, but it's always a possibility. I did discover, however, using a very short lived trick ( http://www.seoptimise.com/blog/2009/01/hyves-subdomain-trick-how-to-find-a-google-penalty.html http://www.seoptimise.com/blog/2009/01/hyves-subdomain-trick... ) that it was definitely penalized by Google, as was the only other site I ran TLA on (but which has continued to have excellent rankings despite a continuing PageRank hit - 4000 visitors a day from Google to a PR 7 penalized to PR 3 is OK in my book!) I removed TLA from sites I really cared about around a year ago. I have it on one still but bizarrely all but one advertiser dropped from it last month (after being on it for 2 years!) so I'll probably cancel my TLA account entirely soon.

prawn 17y ago

Thanks for letting me know. I run them on a site (TLA gives me $100/mo) which ranks #1 for a number of key-phrases. If I drop down the rankings a bit, I might need to ditch TLA.

petercooper 17y ago
I ran them on a site that was making $3-5k a month from Adsense. Big mistake. I got away with it for about 18 months but eventually Google "got to me." Which was quite impressive considering I'd tweaked the hell out of the TLA code to make them appear as natural as possible (even adding my own descriptions to the links). Now I make $300 a month on Adsense if I'm lucky. Oops. The amount of money that revolved around TLA used to be gigantic and it's slumped hard since Google started playing hardball. A friend of mine was a top affiliate of theirs making 5 figures a month in commission - no longer though!
- prawn 17y ago
  Thanks for the info. I might cash in on my recent TLA earnings soon for an iPad and then ditch it (TLA, not the iPad!). Did anything else happen around the time of that big drop in revenue that could've explained it? I've seen big fluctuations in my payments over a variety of sites that usually come back to becoming complacent about content, competition becoming stronger, leaking PR through outgoing links, etc.
  - petercooper 17y ago
    Not really, but it's always a possibility. I did discover, however, using a very short lived trick ( http://www.seoptimise.com/blog/2009/01/hyves-subdomain-trick-how-to-find-a-google-penalty.html http://www.seoptimise.com/blog/2009/01/hyves-subdomain-trick... ) that it was definitely penalized by Google, as was the only other site I ran TLA on (but which has continued to have excellent rankings despite a continuing PageRank hit - 4000 visitors a day from Google to a PR 7 penalized to PR 3 is OK in my book!) I removed TLA from sites I really cared about around a year ago. I have it on one still but bizarrely all but one advertiser dropped from it last month (after being on it for 2 years!) so I'll probably cancel my TLA account entirely soon.