Text Link Center - The Text Link Ads Killer!
brandondrury
We are formally declaring war on Text Link Ads.
Our government may not declare war anymore, but Text Link Center does.
We will demonstrate:
- How nearly EVERY useless link sold by Text Link Ads is detectable with our Useless Link Detector
- Why you are throwing your money away with Text Link Ads
- How Text Link Ads has NO interest in link quality
- How Text Link Ads has NO interest in link security
- How Text Link Ads does not keep up with changes in Google or how Text Link Ads Text Link Ads simply does not care.
- We’ll question why Text Link Ads takes half of your money
- We’ll make you wonder why Text Link Ads is banned in Google themselves
- We’ll make you wonder when your site, which is buying and selling links on Text Link Ads, is going to be banned by Google
- We’ll explain why Text Link Ads does not care if you rank in 2008
- We’ll make you wonder why Text Link Ads, which makes $millions per month from the 50% cut they take has been in no hurry to protect your site from being banned.
We’ll Demonstrate How:
- Text Link Center is completely free! (See video)
- Text Link Center sells links that actually work! (See video)
- Text Link Center is the only secure text link site! (See video)
- Text Link Center makes buying and selling links super easy! (See video)
- Links are sold before you even post them on Text Link Center! (See video)
- Text Link Center provides the most useful information about Text Links to buy and sell ANYWHERE! (See video)
October 7th, 2007 at 12:50 am
[…] I happened across this joke of a site today and they are trying to make a name for themselves, but I think they’re falling into the new hat I made up for Doug Heil “Douche Hat” with posts like this. […]
October 8th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Do you think it is ethical for you to make a slanderous post like this bashing Text Link Ads and following it with a pitch for your own service?
October 8th, 2007 at 9:30 am
There is nothing derogatory about the post. It’s simply my take on the current Text Link industry situation. Text Link Ads has been praying on the uneducated for a long time. They were the first and therefor they are at the top. If they want to stay at the top, they have an obligation to their users to be the best system they can possibly be. Otherwise, capitalism will step in. If you think competition is a bad idea…
http://searchengineland.com/071007-173841.php
Why did Text Link Ads do NOTHING when Matt Cutts posted his blog asking webmasters to report paid links? THEY DID NOTHING and they are making millions. They had the resources to really take care of their customers. If Text Link Ads had any interest at all in taking care of it’s customers it would have easily dropped the $20k or whatever for a programmer to design them a compleletly secure system.
Text Link Ads did nothing because they knew that their demographic did not understand the difference between a good paid link and a bad paid link.
Well, we think we have a better system in nearly every way. We think that there are buyers and sellers of text links who think the same way.
This isn’t about name calling. This is about progress. The Milkman is gone. Cars replaced horse buggies. Text Link Ads has gotten lazy.
October 8th, 2007 at 9:47 am
“There is nothing derogatory about the post.”
“Text Link Ads has been praying on the uneducated for a long time.”
Derogatory or not, this sounds slanderous to me. Your statements are unfounded, in my opinion.
In either case, paid placement links are a tricky subject. I am not talking about Text Link Ads specifically here, but rather all link broker activities. The sellers of the links understand the risks and usually make note of links or posts as sponsored or they are selling advertising on their site in which case search engine ranking is not of their concern. Remember, webmasters are allowed to do whatever they want with their sites and making money off of their content efforts is entirely up to them.
Anyone that buys links should understand the risks–period. You should know that no system is completely closed. There are brokers that sell you links completely blind. In my opinion, this is complete irresponsible. The buyer really does not know what they are getting and are taking the risk of getting a paid link from a site that may be flagged by the engines. Instead, a consumer that can take a look at the site can then make his or her determination of whether that link passes link weight or that page may have issues.
By what you originally come out with, this sounds like a childish ploy to discredit a competitors service and pitch your own. So no matter what your statements are based on, whether founded or not, that is how it is being perceived. It is not ethical to bash your competitors while at the same time pitching your own service.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
So lets get this straight.
Text Link Ads is freely giving away the identity of sites with no regard for security when they know that sites are being reported.
Also, they are not pointing out which of their links are of any SEO value. In fact…NONE of them are. They flat out say that their links increase search engine rankings.
So, they have complete disregard for their customers. They know that they are selling links that google is discounting in two ways and have done absolutely NOTHING to help out the buyer.
Why? Because they don’t care. They know that the general customer has no idea the links are basically worthless. They know that unaware buyers will continue to buy, and sellers will continue to sell for the same reason.
THEY are ignoring the buyer’s interest completely preying on people who don’t know any better. Yet WE are the ones who are unethical?
Give me a break.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
The problem is the sellers do not understand the risks and the buyer DEFINITELY do not understand the risks.
Sellers, in many cases, consider services like Text Link Ads to be similar to something like Adsense or an affiliate program. They don’t realize that their rankings may be in jeopardy.
We are pushing security so hard at Text Link Center in an effort to actually take care of our users. We think that education is important is this regard and that’s why we need “over the top” blogs in this regard.
Did you not just call all the major text links brokers “completely irresponsible”?
It sounds like the difference in our tone and our willingness to call out specific services for their bevarior is the only difference between your views and ours.
Our goal is for all buyers and sellers to understand the risk of buying and selling links. We want our buyers to get real value out of our service and improve their search engine rankings. We feel we DO have a responsibility towards those people.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
“The problem is the sellers do not understand the risks and the buyer DEFINITELY do not understand the risks.”
How do you know this? Are you sure this is not just a broad and sweeping statement?
“Did you not just call all the major text links brokers “completely irresponsible”?”
No, you are taking what I said out of context. Here is what I said: “There are brokers that sell you links completely blind. In my opinion, this is completely irresponsible.”
Thats a big difference–brokers that sell you links complete blind.
Its great that you are informing the public. While you are making a pretty sweeping statement by saying that no one knows whats going on, they are blind to it. Dont you think there are plenty of well known resources out there that have described the ins and outs of buying and selling links?
Instead, you choose to “inform” the public via your blog. Great! Wouldnt you think that people in this community would be more likely to read Search Engine Land, Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Journal, or Sphinn? The information is out there, while you claim it is not.
So after you announce this ground breaking news about paid links, you go ahead and plug your own paid link service. That is where you went quite wrong. You acted immaturely and in an unethical manner. Some might call it slander because it is unfounded. Your submit was Sphunn twice and no one else is commenting here. You lost your credibility with this move.
You have been on a bit of a tear about paid links lately. And you are airing your unprofessionalism on Sphinn. Lets look at the comments to this submit:
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from oilman 3 days ago
dude - I just got back from visiting your “better system” and the sheer lack of professionalism was enough to relegate you that corner of the web where I stack up websites that wasted my time. Near as I can tell you have 5 websites in inventory. Rock on.
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from fantomaster 3 days ago
Nice spoof. If it is that, heh.
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from oilman 3 days ago
I thot it might be a spoof as well. In fact I really hope it is but that’s a crap load of effort for a spoof
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from SportsGuy 3 days ago
Where’s that story on how to bury stuff on Sphinn…?
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from fantomaster 3 days ago
Yeah, if i actually is a spoof it’s also proof: namely, that some people seem to have more time on their hands than does them good. Or anybody else, for that matter.
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from macewan 2 days ago
It simply does not work as advertised. Must be a joke of sorts - a spoof as fantomaster said.
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They came down pretty hard on you. Was this positive reinforcement in your opinion?
Now lets look at the tear you’ve been on about paid links:
-5 Guys Who Care About Paid Text Link Security | Search Engine Traffic Blog
-The Sickening State of Text Links: October 2007
-Text Link Ads Penalization vs Google Adwords | Search Engine Traffic Blog
Do you think you are acting professionally?
October 9th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
I just watched your video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yNu_NM4VCE
I really hope no one is watching and listening to that and taking that as gospel or thinking you are an expert.
October 9th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Sounds derogatory to me… no reason to bash another competitor, at the end it only makes you look bad. There are other ways to pitch your services without accusing another. Anyone that is buying paid links whether from you or from Tex-link-ads knows the risks that are involved.
“Our goal is for all buyers and sellers to understand the risk of buying and selling links.”
If they are active buyers they already know this info and don’t need another person telling them. If there not active buyers then they really don’t care and would go to any broker sites to get a link. I don’t see why this makes a difference.
October 10th, 2007 at 3:42 am
Oh boy. I guess I’ll “tear” into this one.
“How do you know this? Are you sure this is not just a broad and sweeping statement?”
How do we know this? Well, lets think really hard on this one. People are buying links that are marked up and don’t work. Do you think the majority of people would continue to buy horrible links that don’t work if they really understood what was going on? Of course not.
Also, I have had countless people from the forums post things such as:
Oh, and for the record, I didn’t know that. Odds are, you’ve just educated a lot of Warriors
As mentioned by Adam - I didn’t realize they were useless either. Now it seems they are merely a money maker for some folks.
a PM - Thanks for the info. I am on point with everything you are saying and wish I would have thought about this before going on my recent link-buying binge.
So…we know because people continue to buy horrible links to try and rank in competitive markets. AND…because they are telling us directly they don’t understand what a quality link is.
“Dont you think there are plenty of well known resources out there that have described the ins and outs of buying and selling links?”
Ummmmm….NO! lol. Tell the christians that there are enough people trying to spread the word. That is a completely ridiculous statement to make. If there are people who are unaware, then NO, not enough resources are informing the people what a quality link is.
In fact…I haven’t seen a single guide myself that is of any quality that goes into great detail about quality links. NOT ONE. There are some resources that skim over what they think is a quality link, but I haven’t seen anyone with comprehensive information, and great detail who hits every point.
“The information is out there, while you claim it is not.”
Show me this great information you are talking about that is comprehensive. I mean, the real deal, no BS information from someone who has done extensive testing. Then, explain to me why there are still people who don’t understand.
Aside from that…who cares if it is out there. If it is, the info is only out there to a select group and not Joe Regular Webmaster. Joe Regular Webmaster does NOT read the SEO nerd forums so there will always be a gap to fill.
“So after you announce this ground breaking news about paid links, you go ahead and plug your own paid link service. That is where you went quite wrong. You acted immaturely and in an unethical manner.”
Explain how in any way this is wrong? Have you ever heard of capitalism? See, this is where someone can spot a problem and has a chance to bring to market a solution to that problem. We happen to have a FREE service here, that is superior. That is the whole idea in pointing out the problems. If there wasn’t a problem, we would have seen no need or opportunity for the site, nor the need to post on blogs or forums about the problem.
Also, let me say this. You are saying the WE are unethical? Yet, services like text-link-ads and others are simply ignoring security and allowing their clients to be reported. Not only that, but they are promoting links of VERY low quality, charging double, and hoping that their customers don’t understand they system.
So, I guess what they are doing is ethical? Ignore the quality of your product and charge huge money for it? hmmmm.
I think it is UNETHICAL to understand the system and sit back and let these poor people get ripped off.
“”Now lets look at the tear you’ve been on about paid links:
-5 Guys Who Care About Paid Text Link Security | Search Engine Traffic Blog
-The Sickening State of Text Links: October 2007
-Text Link Ads Penalization vs Google Adwords | Search Engine Traffic Blog
Do you think you are acting professionally?”"
Professionally? Please define “professionally” for me…and explain how you are acting “professionally” under the same definition.
Educating people on what a quality link is and what is currently available is acting “un-professionally”? Yet, you come onto someone’s site who is trying to point out a flaw in the sytem and sling mud…but you are professional right?
Please.
Maybe you should write us up a guide on professionalism that we can begin to follow. You could break it down step-by-step for us in a text book type fashion. You know, very professionally done. Be sure to make it boring and bland so it is professional.
That way, I can professionally take it to the trash can, and professionally place it there with the rest of the garbage.
I’ve always wanted to be a professional trashman. They get to ride on the back of those trucks while it is moving. How cool is that?