I have been using a great service from the folks at Text Link Ads (TLA) for quite a few months. I have been generating revenue since the month of June! Not too shabby when you look at the amount of space used in my sidebar. Depending on the number of pages the ad displayed, the physical area of the sidebar you place the ad, and the number links available in that ad space, you can generate enough revenue to pay for your domain/server fees! Or, if you are using a free service (wordpress.com, blogger.com, typepad.com, squarespace.com, etc), you can have some pocket cash for cool tools, like the graphics pad I just bought!

When you have decided that you’d like to join the Text Link Ads group, you have two options: Affiliate Program or Publisher Program.

I actually have both types of accounts. In the Affiliate Program, you can provide links to the TLA site for your readers to see what the service is all about. Those click-throughs are tracked by the TLA Team, and if someone buys ads or is accepted as a Publisher based on the link they followed from your site, you score! The Publisher Program is where you offer some real estate on your blog for an advertiser. You can sell a block of space with 8 or 10 links. You can make that block available on say one page, or all your blog pages - up to you. The beauty is that once someone buys one of those links, you begin to generate monthly revenue!

Just look near the top of my blog, just below my American Flag block and the Shelby Steele book ad. That teensy little sliver generates revenue. I SWEAR!

Now, I’ve used Google Ad Sense. I’ve setup graphic sorts of links with the Google Ad Sense program. I’ve setup the text form of links before using the Google team’s tool. In fact, I’ve wasted space on my other blog for MOONS and Google’s given me, well, bupkiss! I’ve made a conscious decision to use ad vendors other than Google to generate revenue. And, well, Google’s not on my high list due to the current privacy issues they’ve stirred up in the news.

I intend to pay for my ISP fees for this blog, as well as some features I’d like to add in the near future, and the SIX OTHER DOMAINS I currently own. I’ve had one domain for over … hmmm … 10 years. None of those domains have made me squat, and neither has Google for that matter.

But the Text Link Ads Team has made me revenue THREE MONTHS IN A ROW! You just can’t beat that - especially when my account with TLA is, well, less than 6 months old!

And, a BIG THANK YOU goes out to the folks at Adalardo Directory who’ve been kind enough to buy that text link up there! You’re gonna stay on the top of my sidebar. I owe you all a big time!

So, people, give the TLA Team a try! I really love them, they are in the heartland (Cincinnati Ohio), and deserve some great Milblogger support!

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