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One of the best ways to improve your website’s ranking in search engines is by getting backlinks from other websites.

In 2006, some paid links market websites like Text Link Ads (TLA) started to grow. Many webmasters/bloggers received easy money by selling paid links on their blog. Me too.

Then, Google started penalizing those websites which buy/sell paid links. I quit selling paid links that time.

However, there are still many websites are buying/selling paid links. Reason because, for advertisers, it is a fast way to improve search engine rank for their selected keywords. For publishers, it is a easy money that does not require you to do anything but only putting a few links on your website.

People ask Google again and again whether the paid link consider as SPAM or not. Google has reconfirmed by replying using their Google Webmaster Twitter account that they are considering links via sites like Text-Link-Ads as SPAM.

“Since we hear this question again and again: Yes we de consider buying links via http://tinyurl.com/39epw3 and similar services as spam.”

The tinyurl URL links to Text Link Ads homepage.

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Text Link Ads (TLA) have begun using TinyURL.com to shorten and secure its affiliate referral links.

TLA publishers are advised to update their TLA affiliate links immediately because the old affiliate URLs will no longer work after August 2007.

If you only have TLA affiliate links on your website template, it is easy to update the URLs. However, if you have a couple of posts with TLA affiliate links in the post body like me (Text Link Ads Tips, it could be troublesome to dig them out and edit one by one.

Here I show you how to update all the old TLA affiliate links in one shot (WordPress only) using Mass String Replace in MySQL:
[sql]UPDATE `wp_posts` SET `post_content` = REPLACE(`post_content`, “OLD_TLA_AFF”, “TINYURL_TLA_AFF”)[/sql]
OLD_TLA_AFF — your old Text Link Ads affiliate URL.
TINYURL_TLA_AFF — the new Text Link Ads affiliate URL using TinyURL.com you received.

Using the MySQL query, I updated all the posts containing TLA affiliate links in 1 minute. Fast, clean, and easy!

By the way, here I assume you know how to run a MySQL query. Contact me if you need help.

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It has been a long time since Text Link Ads gave away discount coupon code. It is back! The new code is “august“, it allows advertisers to save 15% on all new orders for the rest of August 2007. The discount applies for the life of the order.

TLA price is fixed

For your information, the sale price of TLA is fixed and cannot be modified for the life of the order. Meaning, you still pay for the same price even the TLA publisher increased the TLA sale price.

Free $100 coupon in Text Link Ads »

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For every Text Link Ads (aff) members, if you are not an AuctionAds member yet, you can get a bonus $5 if you sign up AuctionAds now through TLA promo! You will get the bonus $5 in 24 hours after sign up AuctionAds, placing the code on your website. But note that the minimum payout is $10.00.

By the way, you might interested to read the AuctionAds Tips to Make Money from eBay Ads

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Post Level Text Link Ads is live now! I sold 3 post level TLA in 2 days. The total monthly ad cost is $19 USD but my earning is only $7.39 USD (about 38.89%).

The three posts with post level text link ads sales are: ImPhone USB VOIP Phone (PR3), Calendar (PR4), and World of Warcraft Tops 5 Million Players (PR2).

Here is the screenshot of Post LeveL Text Link Ads on my page:

Image: screenshot of Post Level Text Link Ads

Note that the Calendar post is a WordPress PAGE. It means Post Level Text Link Ads not only sell links on blog posts but also on independent pages.
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