Text Links With a Difference – TNX.net
Have you been seeing this pretty image around the web lately? 
I noticed it on many many blogs and was thinking what this new thing was. Then one day last month when Vladimir contacted me to ask if I could review this site, I was really excited. My posting frequency in the last few months has really slowed down but Vladimir has been really patient with me, so my thanks go out to him. I am still new to the system but what I read from the site it looks quite interesting.
TNX.net is a newer system of buying and selling links for both publishers and advertisers and a way to promote their sites.
From the website itself: “With the help of TNX System you are able to get large amounts of non-reciprocal links from thousands of relevant websites: In just few minutes you can order thousands of links from high quality Internet resources. Links can be placed on main pages as well as on individual, deep pages of websites that either have few other outbound links or no links at all. ”
So, If you haven’t heard about TNX yet, it behooves you to at least try the system, since joining it is free. The interface is pretty easy to follow. Join with just a few clicks and get thousands of links back to your site and start earning some money by selling links on your blog/site. You can register at http://tnx.net/register.php. You automatically get 2,000 TNX points upon sign up. TNX also has a promo going that Vladimir pointed me to this thread: by posting on this thread in the DP forums, you get an additional 5,000 points free.
The best part is that you will have complete control on the sites linking back to your site. Once the space on your website is sold, you can see the list of sites in your control panel and will have an option of banning any site you don’t wish to advertise on your site. Another great thing is that the list of sites taking part in their program is kept private. So, the search engine lords supposedly cannot create an account and go out on a penalty spree.
TNX Points are easily used as real money, either for purchasing links for yourself, transferring to other TNX users (or even selling to them at a price you decide) or even sell them back to TNX for real cash, (currently @ 0.78 per 1,000 points). TNX then pays you via secure PayPal. Something I have never seen any other similar service offer.
Look at the stats from their site.
As of today there have 43,717 users, more than 32 million links in the system and more than 23 million pages indexed! Those are darn good statistics and the participating sites growing each day at a rapid pace.
What I really like about the system is that as publishers, you can sell links on ALL pages of your site, even the ones with zero page rank and make some money. For publishers (that is all of you who are reading this) there is an added benefit from their referral program. TNX.net is giving you 13.3% of the points your referrals earn, and that is a lifetime payment! which is really great.
Some of the requirements for participating it their system are:
number of visitors: at the present time there are no restrictions!
PR: It is preferable to have pages on the site with PR at least 1. You can check it here: volume check of pages’ PR.
domain: preferred are second level domains with paid hosting registered over 6 months ago
site selection by search engines: at least once per month
Number of pages: at least 30 (with regular ranking)
presence in a major catalogue, DMOZ: preferred
PHP: a must
In short, the system looks pretty neat and should be be a great site for catering to the needs of publishers as well as to the advertisers. I wish them great success.
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I would wonder if this would bite into text link ads and linkworth much?
well, it might! and I’m glad there is some healthy competition now.. text link ads takes forever to approve sites
I also reviewed TNX months back when Vladimir contacted me. Then a few weeks ago he emailed me again, asking me to review it – he had forgotten I already had! LOL. Great job with the review. TNX has still some problems to work out, but over time I can see them growing and getting up there. They’ve definitely got a more unique system.
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Hm… buying and selling links. Is that safe? ;)
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@Mig – Well, Im not sure how bloggers truly feel about it but from the numbers TNX presents, looks like they are getting very popular with publishers as well as advertisers.. Only time will tell how the whole thing pans out.
@Tay – looks promising to me too.. looks like Vladimir has reached out range of websites privately so the service is getting popular pretty fast. Thanks for the kind comments tay…
I’ve heard mixed things about TNX. I haven’t tried them myself, but I agree that it is nice to see some competition for Text Link Ads.
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Pearl I gave this some thought for reviewing on my site as well, just not sure on it yet,
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@Steven and @Don – we know competition forces people to do better so may be text link ads guys will start paying a bit more attention to their system, which is overdue as I keep hearing! lets see what happens..
Don – I think TNX has a great concept and I really hope they stand out with time.. reviewing and letting your readers know where they could improve, if you thought so, would definitely be helpful to TNX also, since right now they are still in beta
Thanks for this great post.
I have been using TNX to sell links from my website since January 2008 and already earned more than I would earn in 5 months by selling links through any other networks.
TNX is definitely the best link network out there!
Will be also buying links later this month. Pretty sure TNX will do great.
I have already told all my friends about this great system.
Bravo, TNX!
thanks for reading Jeff… glad you stopped by to tell us your experience with TNX…
Interesting. I thought google was punishing sites that paid for or sold links. Goes to show what I know.
hey Google of course doesn’t like you to have paid links, but this is simply a review ;)
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I tried TNX a few months ago. Their interface needs alot of work. It was very frustrating to use. The actual links and stuff do work, but I got frustrated that I couldn’t edit my links once submitted so I just quit using it.
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right, the interface sure needs improvement and I found the documentation to be a bit confusing but they are still in beta and hope they consider all the constructive feedback from the reviews
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I think they have a forum and a blog to help you. But what bugged me is that they would announce something and never deliver. Like a better interface or some link that didnt work would be fixed and it never was. I believe that they have been in beta for a long long time now.
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TNX is great! Use it wisely though and you will succeed.
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interesting. I’ll check it out.
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TNX.net is an excellent program. Another similar program worth considering is Etology. I’ve been using this service for a few months now and so far I’m quite happy with the results. I haven’t had a chance to advertise with this system yet, but as a publisher I love the freedom to sell ad space based on my own prices. Check out this review that I wrote a few weeks ago and let me know what you think.
Ive heard good things about TNX but have never tried them.
I found the documentation to be a bit confusing but they are still in beta and hope they consider all the constructive feedback from the reviews