TNX - Is TNX worth it or what?

TNX - Is TNX worth it or what?

I’m not one of those persons more ethical than the pope, who are 100% against buying paid links. That’s why i decided to take a look at TNX, a service that allows webmasters to buy and sell links quite easily and for great prices. It has created quite a buzz in the last months, as you can see from the evolution of their Alexa ranking.

I have to say i wasn’t too confident in this service, but i still applied for an account. I liked the fact that it was pretty easy to make this account, i just had to complete a bunch of fields and then login. Great. Now, once you’re logged in, you get in front of a quite intuitive administration panel. There are different options for Advertisers, Publishers and Referrers, but we won’t get into too many details here.

On TNX, everything depends on TNX-points. They are the monetary unit inside the system that allows you to buy other links. A newcomer for the service might not like the fact that he gets NO points to start the game. But he can go on this Thread on DP and get 5000 free points in just a couple of hours. Or buy the points. Or even better, just add sites in the system and wait for the points to come in.

Adding a site requires quite a lot of code to be inserted inside your theme, so you might need a little bit of technical knowledge. But it shouldn’t be that hard after all… TNX does not have strict rules for sites acceptance in their network, like a certain number of indexed pages or Alexa ranking. That doesn’t mean every site gets in. But as long as you have a decent site with lots of indexed pages, you can earn you quite a lot of TNX moola.

Now let’s say you managed to get some points. I for one, added an older site with like 1000 indexed pages and got around 50.000 points in around one week. I then had two choices: to exchange them for money (at a rate of around $7.8 per 10.000 points) or use them to promote my own sites. I decided to give each service a try. I turned 10.000 points into money, and i got payed via Paypal in like 3 working days. And then i turned my attention on buying some good links.

First, you have to set a campaign, then wait for it to be approved. And then you’ll see the links coming out. Now, i had like 40.000 points to invest. For that, i could get anything between 40.000 PR0 links, which are sold for 1 point each per month and 8 PR7 links, which cost 5000 points. Remember, these prices are per month. Pretty good ay? With that in mind, i decided to throw in some campaigns. You can choose from several categories in order to keep your links as relevant as possible. But remember, we’re talking about an automated process so don’t get you expectations too high on relevancy.

The TNX network has over 15K sites enrolled already, but unfortunately only like 3000 are in English. Once you chose your categories, you can select the PRs of the links you need and the number of Yahoo IBLs the sites have. That’s quite a great thing, as it allows you to screen only the sites you really want. Once you’ve decided on these options, press Finish and wait for the campaign to be approved.

In a couple of days you’ll see links appearing in your Campaigns Administration Panel. Now, i recommend you take each of them and look for a couple of things: relevancy, the position in the site where it is placed, the overall quality of the site, the number of outgoing links on the page, etc. If you don’t like something about a link, you can just delete it instantly and the TNX points will be refunded for you. I consider this screening process a must if you are going to use TNX properly and don’t want to attract any flags from Google. Look only for links that are placed somehow near or inside the content and that don’t have a Paid Link or Advertisement flag above them.

I for one, got like 200 links in the first week towards a site, and screened them to around 80. But come on, 80 PR0-3 decent links for 40.000 points (which equal around $30) is quite a bargain, don’t you think? Now i tend to believe them when they say TNX is a great way to reach N1 position in SERPs.

OK, that’s it. I hope i didn’t bore you, but i really wanted to write an objective opinion about the service. If you think the TNX Service is what you need, then you can sign in for free here . I do believe the service offers value to the link buying market, as long as it is used properly and you carefully screen the links you buy. What do you think?

Category: Making Money Online
Tags: back links, buying links, links