Sohaib Thiab – The Story of an Internet Entrepreneur

Its been a while since I posted anything related to making money online, so I thought I should review tnx.net in this post as it is quicly becoming a good income source for lots of bloggers and webmasters.

TNX is a quickly growing ad network similar in concept to text-link-ads but with main differences which I’ll be mentioning later on this post, at the time of writing this post, TNX has around 41,948 users, over 33 million links and more than 26 million pages indexed.

The main difference between TNX and other text link ad networks is that TNX allows webmasters to sell links on every page in their website and not just the main page, which is a huge advanatge for sites with lots of pages indexed in Google such as forums and portals.

Signing up for TNX is pretty straight fwd. and simple, the account you create is both an advertiser and a publisher account, there is no need for you to create two accounts for each part, which is something I liked in their system.

Because of the fact that publishers are allowed to place links on all of their website’s pages, link prices are generally cheap, with a small budget you can buy hundreds of links in almost any category you need, TNX also uses a new system for payments based on points, links sold on your pages will get you points, the value of your pages are determined based on your PR, you can exchange your points with real cash at any time, the price is around $0.7 for 1000 points.

TNX has a generous affiliate program, they pay 13.3% of all TNX-points generated by a referred publisher, and 5% of all payments made by referred advertisers for the lifetime of the accounts.

While searching for topics related to TNX on DP, I came across the following posts that I found useful:

• How the TNX link system works
• Free useful tool to make paid links look natural
• Tips on how to rank on Google using links
  
• TNX’s special offer

Generally speaking TNX is a great money maker for websites with large numbers of pages, forums from what I’ve seen do extremely well with TNX, so if you own a forum or a site with lots of pages, I would recommend you give TNX a try especially that you can place the links in the footer part of your website. PR0 pages will pay you around $0.008 per link per page, if you’ve got a site with tens of thousands of PR0 pages, well you do that math.

[tags]tnx, text link network, text ad network[/tags]

Here is a cool video that friend sent me that might help you answer the question

PS. Sorry for the lack of posts, I have a couple of posts in my drafts that I should be finished real soon.

Here Comes Another Bubble – The top video clips of the week are here

Its been a while since I posted an episode of funny video Monday, luckily I remembered today, so here is my pic for this week from Funny Video Hub.

Reuters reported that Plaxoo, a 2nd tier social networking website which helps members keep their friends’ contact information up to date is on the market for what it is estimated to be $200 million, other reports said that Plaxo was looking for offers around $100 million.

Plaxo had a flat growth in 2006 and 2007, however it might be a logical target for other social networks, especially sites like Myspace and Facebook to acquire a 2nd tier professional social networking website, a niche that both of theese major players have been looking to and working on getting a piece of.

Plaxo claims that it has signed up over 15 million members, how many of them are active is a different story though, no specific numbers were made public by Plaxo.

Microsoft, Google and Yahoo and all possible buyers for Plaxo, besides Newscorp and Facebook ofcourse, whether thePlaxo sale is going to be the 1st sale for a social network in 2008 or not is something we will have to wait for to see.

[tags]plaxo, plaxo sale[/tags]

Another episdoe of speedlinking for some of the most usful posts I came across in the past few days.

• Why Social Marketing is Critical to the Internet Marketing Mix, 10e20.com
• Bidvertisers Adds RSS Advertising, Problogger
• Top 50 Search and Social Media Happenings in 2007, 10e20.com
• Australia Joins China in Censoring the Internet, Techcrunch
• Phishing for Facebook, Techcrunch
• How to Stop WordPress Registration Spam, SEOSprig