Add Your Link on The New Straits Times Online
Filed in: Malaysia, SEO Beginner, Web — January 30th, 2008
Here is the good news for search engine optimizer or anyone who wants to get high PageRank incoming links: The New Straits Times Online is accepting text ads order for RM150 (~USD$46.25) a week. The accepted payment method is Maybank fund transfer.
Image: paid text links on The New Straits Time Online
You text ads can have up to 5 words and link to your website. It is a direct text link. *grin* Furthermore, the text ads are shown at almost EVERY pages of the website. That is a great exposure!
The New Straits Times Online is a Malaysia news portal with Google PageRank 7 out of 10. It is a high ranking! So far, no PR8 website found in Malaysia yet.
As we know, Google dislike paid text links that will influence the search engine page results.
We don’t know whether Google will de-rank The New Straits Times Online or not, but I don’t think they will care about it. The website’s traffic does not depends on search engines.
Perhaps I should put my text ads too and see what I get. 
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January 30th, 2008 at 8:37 am
I’m thinking putting my ads too. Thanks for the new.
January 30th, 2008 at 11:26 am
It’s too expensive for me. A week is not enough!
January 30th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
That’s the cheapest PR7 link that I have seen, I think later on they will raise the price
January 30th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I wa filling the form until I read the T&C that says:-
” Please print and fax this form together with payment slip to +603-2282 4289″
Hmm …
January 30th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Hmm..maybe it’s time to visit https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/paidlinks
January 30th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
The online form is just for display purpose… you need to print the form (pdf), fill in and fax it together with payment slip.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:23 pm
it is only on internal pages…so the pagerank is slightly lower…but it is still a good price
January 31st, 2008 at 8:33 pm
150 is quite reasonable for one of the major papers in Malaysia. but risking it for Google…hmm. That needs some serious thought.
February 1st, 2008 at 7:16 pm
great, wait to see your result there. I a bit paid for me to advertise there
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February 1st, 2008 at 7:23 pm
only tech freak like us will know how useful PR was… outside or even their web master dono what is PR too, so they dono how to judge a PR7 text link price too…
other then this, may be they also dono sell link can affect their PR… alot people act like pro out there but actually they are NUT, don judge what they are with their outlook.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:04 am
Is there any website that can check your page rank other than installing the Google tool bar?
RM150 per week is abit too expensive.
February 26th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Marco, you can use Firefox extension. Just go to http://addon.mozilla.org and search for page rank.
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
I try all the time to find the best ads I can go. Thanks.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Agreed with Marco on pricing, but i believe they are not targeting small potatoes like us, they must be aiming the big fish out there.