Recently we were talking a lot about paid links, so I think you might be interested in a little sponsored review of TNX.net which is listed below. If you would like to give a try to the TNX.net service, there’s my affiliate link

First impressions
Engine of TNX.net works in similar way to common link exchange services that most of you already know - there’s a system of points. Users can earn TNX-points on adding their websites to the system, then advertisers can buy text link ads and launch their own TNX.net campaign. Both publishers and advertisers can register and ask for some free points in this threat at DigitalPoint forums.

TNX.net for publishers - How to earn the points
After your website is approved (it may take 1-3 days) it will be indexed by the TNX system, and within very short period of time links will start to appear on pages of your website. In general - there are only 2 requirements: your site must be indexed in Google AND your hosting must provide PHP, Perl or asp scripting (in most cases your site passes well both of them). However, the way that TNX.net uses to count numbers of points you receive is pretty complex - that means if you want to find how much your sites are worth for the system, you need to sign-up. However, pricing is much more simple - you get exactly $0.62 for 1000 points sold to TNX (but when you sell them directly to other user there’s no commission for TNX and all the money flows straight into your wallet). Also there’s an Income Calculator which could be helpful to estimate how much can you earn on a single website pointed to TNX.net system.

TNX.net for advertisers - How to make a campaign
Let’s say you are SEO and you are going to boost your rankings with TNX.net. Recently you were paying around 30 dollars for a single PR4 link displayed on semi-popular site with Text Link Ads, what you can do with TNX.net? For the same price you can get FIVE text links from different sites with PageRank4. In addition - you can set few parameters for sites where your ads should appear on, such as: categories, PageRank, geo-location, and number of Yahoo Backlinks. This is nice, isn’t it? Yes, it means that even if sucky TLA would say “bye-bye” to their sucky 50% commission, TNX.net could be simply better for your business.

Affiliate program
All affiliates get 13.3% of all TNX-points that are generated by their websites. In addition, you will receive 5% of all payments, made by referred advertiser (this option will work after PayPal payments will be automated). The best thing in TNX.net affiliate program is an innovative feature for you to hide all referral links you use on a single page - for instance in a forum thread, where different ways to earn money on a site are discussed, you can mention TNX.net system, and then point the URL of to that threat to your affiliate account. This is really nice, they seem to be the first company that doesn’t blow off their affiliates! For ones that don’t know why - this feature is easy to implement in every single affiliate program, guess why most of companies don’t provide it

Future possible improvements
Maybe some opportunity to choose websites by number of indexed pages would be a nice addition to their offer. The biggest improvement I would like to see may well be an alternative to Google PageRank. Thanks to the miff of Google all sites that were established earlier than beginning of this year are underestimated (period of time listed in case of number of sites I own, guess yours do similar), and there’s still no good way to monetize it with ANY text links sales. I’m afraid this sick situation may not change soon, so you link brokers will have to develop it on your own. Especially if both Yahoo and Microsoft are not going to take it over and all PageRanks will be getting more and more outdated & useless (which seems to be the major goal for Google at the moment, in my humble opinion).

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