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TNX.net is a new network that combines contextual advertising, text link brokers and relevant exchange of permanent non-reciprocal text links.
As a publisher you can monetize your blog/site by selling text link ads or by referring other people to TNX. As an advertiser you can improve your search engine rankings by placing millions of non-reciprocal links to their sites, as well as to drive more traffic to your blog/website.
TNX.net for Publishers
In order to be accepted in TNX.net program your blog have to pass out some requirements, for example:
- It is preferable to have pages on the site with PR at least 1
- You must have your own domain
- Your site must be indexed by Google
- Your site must have at least 30 pages (with regular ranking)
- Your site must be in PHP
Once your blog is accepted, you’ll have to insert a code in your site, in the place where you want the links to be displayed (usually in the sidebar).
Publishers can choose their advertisers by themselves, placing only links which are relevant for them. This feature is explained in detail how it works on this thread in Digital Point forums
If you want to know how much you will earn by selling links on your website, you have an income calculator which calculates your profit (in TNX points as well as in $) according to your number of pages and PR.
You’ll get paid in TNX points for the links you allow to be placed on your website. You can trade those points with other TNX.net members, or you can claim their value in USD from TNX itself, at a rate which is public, and updated regularly. As of today, the exchange rate is $0.74 for 1000 TNX points. The minimum amount of points you can redeem is 5000. Payments are done via PayPal or MoneyBookers.
TNX.net for Affiliate Marketers
Once you become a member of TNX, you could also benefit from the affiliate program which allows you to earn points by referring people to TNX. You will receive 13.3% of all “TNX-points”, he/she will earn in the future (a reward for referring an advertiser is also available). This amounts to almost half of the system’s commission! Interest is paid for the lifetime.
TNX.net has a special offer which will help you get started by giving you 5000 TNX points which can buy you up to 5000 links on websites of your choice.
TNX.net for Advertisers
Google says: “In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to their pages.”
On TNX.net, you can choose the sites where your links will be displayed. There are 4 filters available: by category, by geo-targeting, by number of inbound links (in Yahoo), and by Google PR.
For example, if your website is about business, you can choose to buy links only in the Business, Finance, Industrial category, which has 1112 websites as of today. In this way, the links you’ll place will be more relevant, because they will be shown in a related context. If you want a lot of links for little spending, you can further choose only those websites which have PR 0 or 1. The TNX.net system is very flexible, and it allows you to customize your campaigns according to your needs and budget.
Moreover, TNX has a useful tool, called Link Generator, which generates different links with different anchors, in order to make them look more natural.
If you want to try TNX.net, you can sign up now!
February 15th, 2008
Maybe you have noticed, after you’ve made the upgrade to Wordpress 2.3.2, that you don’t receive comments notifications anymore. At least, I’ve observed that on our younger blog, EzMoneyOn.Net, though I’ve set the option to receive notifications when someone leaves a comment. Funny thing is that on 134u.com I’ve received comment notifications, although I’ve upgraded to the same Wordpress version. The settings on both blogs were the same. Hmmm 
I’ve search on Goole for this issue and I’ve found an article explaining that this seems to be a Wordpress bug.
The solution is very simple and consist in a little modification to the file pluggable.php, located in wp-includes folder.
You’ll have to comment the line 228:
$phpmailer->Sender = apply_filters( ‘wp_mail_from’, $from_email );
So it should look like this:
//$phpmailer->Sender = apply_filters( ‘wp_mail_from’, $from_email );
After I’ve made the change, I’ve uploaded the file and it works. Just that the “from” from the notification looks strange. It didn’t show the person who left the comments, but an email address from BlueHost (EzMoneyOn.Net is hosted on BlueHost).
So I’ve commented the line 227 either:
$phpmailer->From = apply_filters( ‘wp_mail_from’, $from_email );
Which finally look like this:
//$phpmailer->From = apply_filters( ‘wp_mail_from’, $from_email );
Now, my comment notifications on EzMoneyOn.Net work fine. Just to notice that on 134u.com I haven’t made any changes on this file, but the comment notifications works fine either.
Note: Even if WordPress has released 2.3.3 version, it seems that this issue wasn’t fix.
February 13th, 2008
I was a little lazy/busy this week, so for the today’s “13 Great Articles” I’ve choosed the carnival’s format. I hope you don’t mind.
1. 11 Ways to Gain Exposure as a Web Designer - by Steven Snell, saying, “As a web designer you may be faced with the challenge of getting your work and your abilities in front of others. If this is the case, here is a list of 11 different things you can do to get noticed.”
2. Think Unoriginal, Think Blogging - by Mohsin, saying, “Since bloggers are the individuals who take the role of authority and leadership, you’d think they are highly unique people, influencing the minds of their readers in their own inimitable ways. But the reality is very different. Bloggers have turned into a noisy crowd, where no voice can be distinguished from the other one.”
3. Alternative Search Engines to Google - by Sueblimely, saying, “Will there be any alternative search engine to really challenge Google’s stranglehold in the near future? Will spam sites and parked domains continue to rate highly? Will we be able to search and actually easily find exactly what we are looking for? Will we be able to access a good range of valuable information on a topic without finding only those sites who have been successful in keyword and search engine optimization techniques?”
4. Automatic keyword inserting affiliate plugin for Wordpress - by Patrick Altoft, saying, “A new plugin for Wordpress that allows you to monetize your long tail traffic better than ever before. The plugin works by taking the keyword that a visitor used to find your site in any major search engine and turns it into an affiliate link.”
5. Spammers use Top Commentators vulnerability to hijack top list - by Andy Bailey, saying, “It seems that the Top Commentators plugin remembers the last URL used for a commentator and displays that as an anchor for their name,(it used to use the most used url, don’t know why they changed it) even after deleting and spaminating the spammers url and ip into the blacklist they still showed on the displayed list so I have decided to remove the Top Commentators plugin for now.”
6. 7 Effective Ways to Start Blogging - by nimrodjo, saying, “People have different thoughts that want to express. Mostly, they cannot show it because of many reasons. Most people just keep their thoughts inside them and never speak it out. One way of expressing these thoughts out of them is through writing. Writing is the usual outlet of those people that are afraid to show or express their thoughts through their mouth or through their gestures.”
7. Niche Blogging: Limit Visitor Choices? - by Frank Carr, saying, “Here’s a little experiment that I’ve been trying on some niche blogs I recently created. The idea is to narrow visitor choice on the page down to the point that an Adsense block or an affiliate offer are the most logical exit points aside from the back button. In this article I’ll go over how I’m setting this up and some of the reasoning behind it.”
8. What to Post? When to Post it? - by Jay, saying, “Do you always have ideas running through your head, day in and day out and constantly writing like there’s no tomorrow? Now you have so many articles, how should you organize them? When should you post them?”
9. Affiliate Marketing Guide: What Are Conversions And How Can I Get Some - by Simonne, saying, “If following our “online money makers” article you joined some affiliate networks, most probably you have encountered terms like “conversions” and “impressions”. Are they clear to you, or you got a bit confused?”
10. The Human Side of Photography - 4 Tips for Natural Looking Portraits - by Natalie Norton, saying, “Here’s 4 tips on how I work toward those beautiful, natural, genuine portraits that make our hearts sing, end up framed on our walls, and/or sell like crazy post production.”
11. How to Determine the Effectiveness of Your Internal Link Structure - by Aaron Wall, saying, “How do I determine how I am best utilizing my PageRank? How do I know if my navigation is successful?”
12. Are You Excluding Beginners From Your Blog? - by TheWild1, saying, “There are very simple and perhaps even beneficial methods to make your blog accessible to all levels of readers. To clarify the methods, I will use my finance site as an example.”
13. 5 Reasons to Push Through Fear - by Andrew, saying, “Lack of fear does not equal stupidity. There are of course good reasons why we feel fear. Fear is a protection mechanism to help us survive. For example it’s great that you might feel a bit of fear crossing a busy intersection. This fear keeps your senses alert. What I’m recommending is taking calculated risks.”
February 10th, 2008
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