Goodbye Text Link Ads

Subject: Goodbye Text Link Ads Fri Apr 08, 2011 2:38 pm

Goodbye Text Link Ads

With all the recent talk over buying and selling of text link ads causing a negative effect on your Google PageRank, I’ve decided to disable the text-link-ads.com WordPress Plugin (ie. stop selling text-link-ads). That’s about $100/mo that I’m kissing goodbye just to avoid the possibility that Google might punish me. Here’s why –

They send me more traffic than anyone else. I can’t say I’m entirely happy about the situation, but there isn’t much I can do about it. One thing I can do, is email the folks @ text-link-ads.com and ask if they’d consider adding the rel=”nofollow” tag to each ad they sell. Here’s what I sent -
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(233,234,234) 2px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; MARGIN: 0px 9px 9px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; QUOTES: none; PADDING-TOP: 0px; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial">

Hi TLA folks -

With all of the recent talk of Google punishing Text Link Ad buyers
and sellers, are you considering adding the rel=”nofollow” tag to the
link code? I ask because I’m afraid I’m going to have to stop
participating in the TLA program if there’s a chance that it will hurt
my Google rankings/indexing, as Google is by far my #1 source of
traffic. I’d *like* to keep TLA running on my site, as I have 7/8
spots filled and I’m quite happy w/ the service – but again – I can’t
risk a Google punishment for the income that TLA provides. Your
response would be very much appreciated!

Thanks!

Ross</BLOCKQUOTE>

That went to sales@, Patrick Gavin (the TLA President), and whomever receives the mail generated by the “contact us” form on the TLA home page. So far, I’ve yet to hear anything back. I’m not surprised, they’re (TLA) probably holding frantic meetings trying to figure out what to do – since this latest not-exactly-official-news has probably seen a lot of folks like myself dropping their service.

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