Have you tried TLA inLinks?

[Kevin]

I wrote a post detailing TLA's new inlink system (http://www.bloggingtips.com/2008/09/09/text-link-ads-publicly-launches-inlinks/) the other day. The service lets you buy and sell keyword links on websites.

Has anyone tried this as yet? As a publisher, the money looks pretty good.

kevin

[sarahG]

It's not something I'd offer on my own sites. I'm not a fan of inline links when they've not been put there by the site writer. Most tend to use a double underline to denote they're dynamically added links and not standard ones, not sure what TLA uses.

I'll stick with links in the sidebar and/or a short advert on a single post.

[Kevin]

TLA are different from the contentlinks ads. Kontera and some other sites use the double underline and they use pop ups etc.

TLA inLinks is actually a misleading name as what it does it basically automate keyword link selling. It scans all your blog and generates thousands of keywords from your content. If an advertiser purchases a link it automatically converts the keyword to a link. The link would then look the same as any other link on the site. It's basically about passing pagerank. I don't think the advertisers expect to get a lot of traffic from it.

[sarahG]

No I realise it wouldn't create a mini popup on mouseover. But it's an intrusive link in the content that someone is reading. If they click that link to see what/why the user has linked it, they're not going to a link supplied by the writer. And you can't tell the difference between the TLA inserted links and the writer's original links.

[Kevin]

No I realise it wouldn't create a mini popup on mouseover. But it's an intrusive link in the content that someone is reading. If they click that link to see what/why the user has linked it, they're not going to a link supplied by the writer. And you can't tell the difference between the TLA inserted links and the writer's original links.

yes very true. It is misleading in that respect as the reader thinks that the writer is recommending the site.

[mintblogger]

Infact, a good point is raised by sarahG.

There is no guarantee that a dynamically generated link will not lead to totally irrelevant site that may damage the hard earned reputation of your blog. Who will compensate for that?

[sarahG]

I would assume that as a publisher you would be able to see and control the links in use? Similar to the way you can accept or decline links going on your sidebar. I've rejected about half a dozen sites as they had no relevance to the site they were trying to buy a spot on.