Stay away from text-link-ads.com

Back on 11 April I posted about Text Link Ads. Any blog I attempted to sign up there was rejected without explanation. I wrote them an email for explanation, but to date, nearly a month later, there was zero response from these people.



I could not, in good conscience, recommend these people for a revenue stream. While I have absolutely no problem with companies like these accepting or rejecting blogs for whatever reason floats their boat. I think that the reasons should be clear and posted. Also, if a company takes your social security number, they should have the decency to answer your email for cripes sake.



I would recommend that people avoid this site. I can't be sure what they are doing with the information of people that sign up, but I can be about 80% sure they are not protecting your information. My guess is that they are selling every bit of data they con you into giving.



Technorati Tags: text-link-ads, non responsive

Tooting my own horn

For my blog The Bigsibling Blog I was looking at the stats over at MyBlogLog and in the referring section I found this URL: I didn't know what it was, so I clicked it to see what this "sphereit" thing was. What I found was, that of 5,642 blogs posts that related to an article on ZDNet titled "The artificial nature of national borders" The post I did on illegal immigration was the #1 link!

This simply amazes me. I didn't even know that site existed. Now I have to spend some time and find out what that whole sphereit thing is about.

In other news, the Bigsibling blog has achieved a Google PageRank of 3/10. I don' t know how. That whole PageRank thing is still a huge mystery to me. On the other hand, the blogspot blogs I have (this one, and myownhometown.blogspot.com) now show "No PageRank information available" in the Google toolbar. Go figure.

I think the single biggest thing I have done to boost the PR is joining some blogger communities. MyBlogLog - in which my profile page has a PR of 3 also, and BlogCatalog - which also gives the no page rank message. In addition, I have participated in some link exchanges (but with the My Home Town blog - not the Bigsibling blog - go figure). And some Technorati favorites exchanges.

Oh, this just in, I just discovered that the bigsibling blog has TWO different page rankings. I don't know why. It seems that the root address http://www.bigsibling.com has a PR of 3 and the page address http://www.bigsibling.com/index.php has a PR of 2. See what I mean by mysterious and confusing?

At any rate, I will give huge credit to the blogging community sites for my rise in PR status. I'm now going to head out and find other places where I can boost the PR of these blogs.

Thanks for visiting & keep her twix the ditches!


Technorati Tags: BlogCatalog, Blog Communities, Google PageRank, MyBlogLog, PageRank