Wordpress TextAds - A New Way to take Advantage of Link Buyer Ignorance

Wordpress TextAds is a new plug-in that allows Wordpress bloggers to easily sell sponsored links on their website. Good news? Far from it…

Unfortunately this plug-in gives unscrupulous link sellers yet another way to scam link buyers. Come on fellow WordPress bloggers, are you really that money hungry that you would sell worthless links to your advertisers? Wait… don’t answer that.

Take a look at the example below of what will be showing up on blogs that use this plug in:
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Is Selling Text Links Legal?

Believe it or not I hear this question all the time – I think some people think the Google terms of service is the 28th U.S. Constitutional amendment.

Google is all powerful, but I don’t think you need to worry about them raiding your business and shutting down your servers if you make your advertising dollars from a source other then AdSense or spend advertising dollars some other place than AdWords.

So what can Google do to you? Read more

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Selling Links

What type of sites are best for link selling?

If you have a site that has a nice pagerank, has been around for 3 or more years and ranks well for several keywords your website is an ideal prospect to sell links. Of course, the higher your pagerank the more you can charge for your links. Sadly, buyers base 90% of what they are willing to pay on pagerank - but give me a nice HTML PR5 contextual text link rather than a oversold PR9 footer text link anyday.

Many sites are strong authority sites in their niche, but really don’t field enough impressions to make decent money with traditional banner ads or JavaScript contextual ads. However, these same sites can make several thousand dollars a year selling links.

I have worked with webmasters that were making nothing off of their websites, and have taken them to $4K -$10K per month in less than a year. Read more

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