Jaxon’s Review

I nearly forgotten that I had submitted some of my blogs for Text Link Ads, until recently I received an email saying a text link on one of my blogs was sold.

I didn’t pay much attention to it although I was quite excited. You’d get excited when you get your first dollar from your work but that was. It was but a momentary euphoria. Just one lucky strike, I thought. Not sure when the next one would be, if there was ever one on the way.

Then a few days later another ads was sold and today, I received a third email saying another was sold, all in the spate of one month.

Anything special the past one month?

But I had installed TLA code for many months ago without selling a single link prior to the three “breakthroughs”.

What was so special about the past month? I didn’t even have the time to nurture my blogs for nearly a month because I was tied-up with my transfer back to KL from Singapore and needed time to settle down and apply for an Internet connection. Only about a week ago that I resumed blogging as usual.

Could it be due to the recent PR debacle?

I don’t remember writing any special blog entry during the past month and furthermore the texts sold were from blog entries more than two months old.

Maybe it’s just a natural progression for those blogs or maybe it was also due to the recent PR debacle, which saw the PR of popular sites nose-diving to dizzying low, some from PR6 to PR2. Some say was a crackdown by Google on blogs selling text links although Google neither confirm nor deny this.

The realisation sent shivers through the blogosphere — hmmm… got to use this word although I don’t quite like it — and some decided to completely stop selling text links with the hope of appeasing Google to reinstate their PR.

Like a mountain crashing down

Blogs with high PR attract advertisers, including text link advertisers and because blogs with high PRs are undeniably fewer than those with PR1 or none at all, they stayed at the top of the “food chain”, consuming a large chunk of blog advertising revenue, including from text link advertisers.

But with the recent PR meltdown, many of these erstwhile high-ranking blogs stopped selling text ads, thus depriving advertisers of their usual text advertising space.

When the mountain of gold crashes down, even the small ones get a palette

This, in turn threw the competition for such ads wide open, with small blogs like this one beginning to get the attention.

Advertisers can’t get the high PR blog to sell links for fear of repercussions from the Big G, and those previously selling them, stopped offering links altogether.

Perhaps the mountain of gold had crashed and blogs at the lower food chain can now have a share of what used to be the peak belonged to the chosen few.

Other wise, how else was it possible that only after the PR debacle that my blogs began to see sales in text ads?

Jaxon S
Online Prospector