I signed up with TNX.net a while ago and have been using their system for a while now. TNX to those who don’t know is an ad network, but not like anything you have come across and this uniqueness is their USP. Their working model is that any blogger or webmaster can be both a publisher and an advertiser using just TNX. The way this works out is that for having links placed on your website or blog you will earn points from TNX. These points then can be used to have your links placed on the TNX network or if you choose you can convert the points into money and encash them. For those who chose to have their own links placed on the TNX network this works out to getting links free since you are not paying for them, but it’s like working on a barter system where others from the TNX network place their links on your website and you get to place your links on their websites, but since TNX manages the entire show it’s not like reciprocal link sharing, but more like A links to B who links to C who links to D and so on. Some of the advantages with TNX are that you can sell links on every single page of your website which helps since some pages have a higher PageRank than others and those with higher PR earn more points. This works out the same way when having your links placed on other blogs and websites in that if you want links on a higher PR blog or website it will cost more in terms of points. However, do note that you are limited to selling a maximum of 4 links per page and it’s obviously better to limit the links to 1 or a maximum of 2 per page since you don’t want to be penalized by search engines like Google or draw too much attention to the fact that you are selling links on your blog or website. If you are just a beginner with TNX or without too many points you can still go ahead and purchase points from TNX and the pricing for this will vary depending on the number of points you are going in for. The starting price for 1000 points is $1.70 when you make a purchase for anything less than $50. Discounts are provided when you start making purchases for more than $50 and depending on the quantity you buy the price per 1000 links will come down to as much as $0.85 which is halving the original price of $1.70 per 1000 links. The pricing structure works as listed below from TNX’s website.
Current price of 1,000 (one thousand) TNX-points is $0.85 – 1.70 depending on the quantity you buy. Basic price is $1.70 if you buy points for less than $50. Discounts start from $50.
Price per thousand TNX-points grows every week.
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$10 (5 882 TNX-points)
$25 (14 706 TNX-points)
$50 (35 294 TNX-points including 20% bonus)
$100 (88 235 TNX-points including 50% bonus)
$150 (132 353 TNX-points including 50% bonus)
$250 (294 118 TNX-points including 100% bonus)
$500 (588 235 TNX-points including 100% bonus)
$1000 (1 176 471 TNX-points including 100% bonus)
TNX also takes a commission of 12.5% from you for all your transactions which is still among the lowest in the market. TNX also gives you the option of collecting payments directly for links sold on your blog or website on PayPal, Check, Wire, etc. as mentioned on their website. Of course all of this boils down to the fact that you need a blog or a website with high ranking pages since Google PageRank comes into play the most of all in calculating the worth of a page and its link. The higher the PR you have the more points or money you will earn. Yahoo Backlinks too get a mention, but even here Google rules the roost.
As of this moment I have made some 1282 points with TNX, but then some 650 points were given free when I signed up with TNX. As of this moment I have not advertised yet and will be starting the same next week so watch out for an update to this review regarding the advertising part on TNX. From what I have deduced till now is that I can choose pages with the PageRank I want. I will look into it more thoroughly as I put advertising with TNX through its paces and will be providing an update on that. Interestingly, TNX has an article on Digital Point on “How to Rank Number 1 in Google for a highly competitive keyword".
There seems to be a problem with WordPress as I am not able to upload or link images for the past couple of posts. I will post some screenshots with my next update. Till then you can go ahead and register with TNX using my referral link and check TNX out for yourself and post about your experience with them in the comments section.
Rajeev,
Thanks for the review. I was also planning to write an exhaustive review about link ads.
Btw, I signed up with your referral id.
Ajith
Thanks Ajith. You are a real pal.