I posted recently that TextLinkAds keeps taking this site out of their ad marketplacebecause their bot can’t find the ads, which have been running continuously with no interruptions in hosting or anything ever since they were first bought. After I email them, they always manage to find it, but that takes about 24 hours - [...]

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Is anyone else getting weekly emails from /* saying their spider can’t detect your ads? I am, and every day I can confirm that I’ve had the same three ads running for quite some time on this site. Obviously their spider is screwy.
What annoys me about this is that:

They deduct the value of the [...]

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I lowered the LinkWorth prices for ads on several of my sites today. It’s too bad /* doesn’t do that, because I have a couple of sites with no ads at all, and I’m convinced a lower price might bring them in. On the other hand, if LinkWorth does the trick, who cares?
In the [...]

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If there is a way to make money with Burst Media, I just don’t know what it is. I have it running on two sites for two days, and I didn’t earn a penny. Then I changed it to rotating with other ads I could actually make money on, and I’ve made a whole penny [...]

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Someone has bought the same text link ad three times on ChillyCool. Same exact link, same anchor text. (Top left sidebar.)
Huh. *scratches head*

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I’m finally finishing out my last set of auto-renew ads on AdBrite and removing them from my site. I have nothing against AdBrite - it’s just that after a couple of years, the revenue is not increasing. What seemed like a good chunk of change when I started out now just seems like an annoyance, [...]

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This is the second time TLA has jacked up my ad prices (which they set) without informing me or being asked by me. Unfortunately, instead of doing it on the site that’s maintained 8/8 links for over a month, they’ve done it to two of the sites that only had two links. Both of those [...]

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This is odd. About two days after Wil mentioned CrispAds and I mentioned how they ran off with everybody’s money last year, they sent me the last of my earnings via PayPal. Which begs a couple of questions:

Who’s running it now?
Is it actually working and active again?
If so, what’s the payment policy?

The payment came from [...]

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I recently applied to TextLinkBrokers, who takes only "quality" sites and has a screening process in place. They came back at me with an offer. On two of my sites, they would offer links at a lower price than TLA or LinkWorth gives me. On a third site, they would sell links if and only [...]

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…and while I was changing over my /* settings from sitewide to single page, it bumped up the price on one of them by $5. The only recent change to that site is that it got indexed in Google, finally (yes, Project Mai Tai) but it had PR for months before that, or else [...]

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