WP Text Ads
by Sapphire (November 11, 2007)
WP Text Ads lets you sell ads with no broker commissions and - get this - no-follow tags if you want ‘em. I’m wondering if this could be a solution to the paid text ads issue.
This service is a ways away from being able to compete with , LinkWorth and other biggies, but it does actually have its own marketplace. The plugin author, Alex Choo, has set up a system using Del.icio.us which creates a page that shows off your stats for potential advertisers. Unlike the biggies, he’s not spending incredible dollars to pursue advertisers - he’s just making it easy for people to link to the marketplace and/or their own site’s page within it. Which means if enough people link to it, it might reach a tipping point and become a viable way to sell links with no-follow tags. Or simply to sell links underground.
I think Alex’s plugin is brilliant, exceedingly useful, and for some of us will be well worth the fee for the licensed version (the free version is fully functional, but limits how many ads you can sell - the licensed version has no limits). What I’m not certain of, however, is whether this could eventually fulfill all your ad selling needs.
Thoughts, anyone?
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February 5th, 2008 at 5:08 am
[...] hoped for on this was text links. I thought he was going to offer no-follow text links, too. Which Alex Choo is already doing via the WP-Text-Ads plugin and his Del.icio.us marketplace, but (a) it’s just for Wordpress and (b) the marketplace doesn’t seem to have been [...]
March 9th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
This WordPress plugin violates the GNU license terms. The author states that the plugin’s license is “proprietary”, but this is not allowed according to the WordPress GNU license. The author CAN sell the program, but must release full source code w/ the sale, and the purchaser is then to be allowed to modify (or not modify) and redistribute the source code without limitation.