Yesterday, MediaWhiz released a new program which you can use to make money online called InLinks, or also better known as Text Link Ads 2.0. MediaWhiz also runs TLA, so if you want to register to InLinks but you are already part of TLA, you will need another email address, giving you an error of database etc etc…
How It Works?
First, let’s review the Advertiser‘s side. inLinks allows you to purchase links within the content area on web pages. You search for instances of your top keywords and replace those static keywords with a hyperlink back to your website. There simply is not a more natural paid link on the market. Once you bought a link, you will have editorial control over it.
That’s sounds pretty, similar than TLA.
Now let’s review the Blogger’s side.Once the advertiser buy a link in your website, you can either approve it or deny it, giving you full editorial control. And like TLA, they have plugins for wordpress, moveable type and drupal, which you can activate in your blog and they will take care of the rest, being an automatized proccess.
The Bad
By reading the description of the program below, it seems exactly like text links ads, but there are a main and big difference. There are two things:
- NoFollow Free: The sold links are nofollow free, which means that will be indexed by search engines.
- Not Relevancy: You are able to buy links on websites that are not even related with yours.
As you can see, there are two big problems. If you start accepting links that can be modified by the advertiser, you won’t have control at all over them. Due to these links will be free of nofollow attribute, they will affect your ranking on search engines and guess what? When Google finds that you are linking unrelated websites in yours, you will probably get slapped.
Of course, if you can approve or deny links you won’t be so stupid to accept irrelevant things, but what if the advertiser change their configuration after you accepted them?.
I don’t know, I don’t trust in that but that’s just my personal opinion, may be I’m wrong… What do you think?
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I signed up to them yesterday and so i will wait a month or two to see how it goes before i decide if its good or bad.
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Heh.. I’ve been ‘slapped’ and never get my PR back, so now I’m playing safe on my other blogs with PR. I am somewhat agree with your points.
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Good movement.
Thanks for sharing this. I’m just new to blogging, all I know is write. But now I realized, there are so many things to consider like linking to unrelated websites. What if my blog is more on personal? Or about anything about the sun? so does it mean, it will never a page rank?
I’m sorry if my question is kinda off the topic. I’m just worried on my links
Hello Aeirin, your question is completely valid. The problem with this program is that if somebody searches for “mysteries of the space” and get redirected to a website which is about make money online, it will be slapped by Google.
In your case, if you blog about personal stuff, you can link other personals blogs. Also, remember that you can use nofollow attribute in your links and using it, that links won’t be indexed by google.
Linking to websites that are not related with yours is not bad unless you do it in huge quantities. This means that a couple of links won’t hurt your blog, so don’t worry about it…
I will write a post about Nofollow-Dofollow soon, so this way you will understand this better…
so, does it mean I can’t combine two topics in one blog? For example, health and make money online? or is possible? And joining some internet advertising like payperpost can harm my page rank? Because currently, one of my blogs is signed up to payperpost and I can get task about business, computer, health. And I’m worried google might slap my blog.
I think I have so much to learn about blogging. But I’m slowly getting it. Thanks for answering my questions
I’ll be watching for your post on how to use this and see if I even want to try it. Thanks for info though.
Aeirin, you can combine many topics as you want in your blog, but the ideal thing is to cover just one and derivate topics. For example if you cover Tech, you could write about computers, nasa, gadgets, video consoles and similars. This way, Google will focus your pagerank in a single topic, in a little group of keywords.
When you cover many topics such the ones you commented, your pagerank will be distributed in more keywords, it will be less concentrated than the last case and your overall PR could be low.
About the payperpost thing, there are many myths about them. The truth is that you will get slapped if you take jobs about things unrelated with your blog. However, if you cover business, computer and health on your blog, you can perfectly write about them taking jobs on ppp that you won’t get slapped.
If you have any question don’t doubt on asking me.
I’ve learned so much today. But I think that is for now. Or else I’ll have information overload. I’ll try to visit your blog as much as I can. Currently I’m reading your ebook about affiliates startguide.
Thanks. I’ll let you know if I have questions.
Anyway, I have to sleep now. (It’s 11:45 PM here in the Philippines). Take care
This features on Inlinks doesn’t seem to be able to entice bloggers to sign up as publishers. But on the other hand, the advertisers have more benefit over at this system where they have the editorial control. Do you think this will work out?
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It will work, but eventually the people could stop using it… That’s why they are keeping TLA alive.
indeed the major ‘flaw’ that I can see is the fact that these links will pass on your PR juice …again this is its major gain for the advertiser and they are willing to pay a slight more more i wager for it…
all that remains is to see how much your willing to pay for your PR and see if it pays that much!
I personally will stay away …I dont like links like this and kontera etc to obtrusive,
Totally agree! There is not a win-win situation, it’s good just for the advertiser, not for the blogger.
Yikes. Looks disastrous. Buying links that aren’t related to you? A turn off for some readers
Yes! As someone told me on an email:
“Feel free to push the “Blog Self-Destruct” button by using this program”
The Google no-follow rule is firmly in place, so you will never see me buying or selling links in any other fashion.
However MJ, you made a small mistake…
No-Follow links ARE crawled and indexed. They DO NOT pass link juice (PR) from one blog to the next…that’s what Google is stopping.
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You are completely right!!!!!! I don’t know what I was thinking when I wrote that haha.
As you say, they are crawled and indexed but they are not counted to calculate the PR.
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Beside of using usual TLA link, I choose inlink. I’m using TLA inlink for few month, and it’s not effect to my PR.
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Google hasn’t found them YET. That’s all that is.
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From my experience, Google seems to find the text link ads on sites that (1) are popular and (2) are in competitive markets. For example, if you have TLA ads on a popular blog about a popular product, your competitors are likely to report you to google. But if you are in a space that isn’t commercially oriented, and you have no competitors trying to tear you town, you will be less likely to be reported to Google.
Hey Aaron great advice, thanks for sharing it!