One of the questions i got in my head at the moment is the following:

“Should i sell text links on my blog or not?”

If I do sell text links i will earn some nice cash but i also might ruin my relationship with Google. Since they declared war against paid links people have been really afraid of selling and buying links. Why should we be? Why should we jump when Google says jump?

One of the companies that Google have tried to bitchslap is TLA better know as Text-Link-Ads. TLA is a company that sells linkspots on your page and takes a little cut for it. I’m not sure – but i think i got affected by this. I got another site which has been a PR5 site over the last year. Suddenly after the PR update right after the so called war it went to a PR 3. I guess that was just a warning since now, when I’m checking the status it is a PR0. I did only earn about $5 a month selling the links – but i still didn’t want to jump when Google said so. And I tell you what my serps didn’t change at all! And i guess thats what its all about. Traffic. Why do you care about your PR if you get a good amount of traffic?

If you got a popular blog you could really do quite well with selling textlinks. JohnChow wich has one of the most famouse webmaster/food blogs around are selling his links for $240 a pop. When you ad that up with 10 links your up to $2400 per month only with 10 lines of links on your side bar. Thats just insane. I really do understand why he doesn’t jump.

So what I’m trying to say here is – should i sell text links or not? I think i have answered the question already though:P

Are you selling text links on your blog?