TNX.net - revolutionizing the text link ad marketplace

I’ve been keeping an eye on TNX.net for some time now. Some people I know have recommended that to me and when the guys at TNX wanted me to do a review on them, can’t say I thought twice about saying yes.

TNX is a text link advertisement marketplace, which allows publishers to make money by showing text links on their web sites and allows advertisers to boost their search engine rankings by buying text links from the sites listed in the marketplace. Although TNX.net is still in beta, it had experience a monumental growth, serving over 22 million text links throughout 27 million web pages.

If you know your SEO, then you probably know that backlinks from high PageRank web sites to your web site can give you more Google juice. It will place you higher on search listings and improve your site’s worth, visitors and income. And that is why text link ad marketplaces are webmasters’ and bloggers’ ore fields. They get you non-reciprocal, text links from sites with the statistics (Google PR, Yahoo! Backlinks and etc..) And in a nutshell, that’s what TNX.net is doing.

What makes TNX unique? TNX point system is the wonder of this ad marketplace. The economy is run by this currency and you earn TNX points for showing other text link ads on your website or you can buy them. You can spend your points to show your text links on other sites or you can sell them to other TNX members or to TNX itself - for cold hard cash - of course.

The beauty of this system is that the value of a TNX point grows by each week, depending on the growth of their marketplace. Which means, holding onto your TNX points in your TNX account is like putting your money in a bank. And if you want to become an advertiser, you just don’t need to spend money on buying text links. You can show other text links on your site and earn TNX points, which in turn you can spend to advertise on other sites. You guessed it right - Advertiser options and Publisher options both in the same account.

I know that many bloggers are afraid of publishing text links on their blogs, mainly because search engines like Google penalize sites that sell text links. But, with TNX, you can come out of the shadows since, as they claim, TNX doesn’t leave behind any evidence for the search engines to penalize you. And as long as a page of your blog is indexed by search engines, you can sell links on it. Meaning, if you have 100 pages in your blog, and all of them are indexed by search engines, you can send text links on every single one of them.

Of course, what you earn from publishing text links from TNX varies according to a number of factors including Google PR. For an example, minimal price of a PR1 text link is about $0.08 right now; while the price of a PR7 text links is about $8 currently. But they say the maximum price sometimes can be as 20 times as higher than the minimum. So you earn what you deserve.

All around, I am happy with the system, although it’s still in beta. I just wish the benefits of their point system were promoted more prominently since not all the publishers take time to read their FAQ carefully. But other than that, I firmly believe it’s a system with great potential. So, ready to give TNX.net a try?