Stalking Text-Link-Ads Has Paid Off

I submitted my Living in London website to Text-Link-Ads about a year ago when it was very crappy and it was turned down. I overhauled the entire thing about 4 months ago and since then it has become my most popular and highest earning site. When I tried to resubmit it to TLA I got an email saying that it would automatically be reviewed each month and that they would contact me when the site qualified for the program.

So I’ve waited and waited and waited some more and waited again and no word from TLA despite some good traffic numbers. I had assumed that the reason for the site’s exclusion was that it is only rated PR2 (my other sites are PR4) and resigned myself to having to wait for Google’s phantom update.

Well this afternoon I shot off a quick email to the people at TLA asking them if they would consider the site for inclusion because I was sick of waiting and, low and behold, I just got an email welcoming the site into their program. Happy days! They’re only willing to sell a maximum of 5 links (as opposed to 10) at between $10-25 each (before their 50% cut) so it’s not exactly going to make me rich but every little bit helps.

So if you’ve got a site that you’ve already submitted to TLA and feel like it’s lost in some dusty filing cabinet in a broom closet of in a back alley of the internet then it might be worth sending them an email to ask what the story is. I’m guessing they might have become a bit more flexible about their minimum PR requirements since Google havn’t updated in ages.