I am running Text Link Ads on this blog in order to earn a little more income. That’s what the “Featured Links” section is on the sidebar, as well as one sold out post right now. My problem is that TLA maintains a list under my account of sellable posts on my blog in order [...]
I am running Text Link Ads on this blog in order to earn a little more income. That’s what the “Featured Links” section is on the sidebar, as well as one sold out post right now. My problem is that TLA maintains a list under my account of sellable posts on my blog in order for me to make more money. I guess those pages come up in searches for publishers, or however that works. The problem is back when my account was setup in June (3-4 months ago) they made a list of posts. I have been posting content almost every single weekday, and there has been a great amount of good content that has gone up on here since I originally started with TLA.
When I login to my TLA account, I see a list of 38 posts. My blog now has over 160 posts. My thought is that offer more inventory, increase the chances of selling a campaign, make more money, right? So I contacted TLA multiple times now letting them know that I don’t think their system is working correctly. I keep getting e-mails back from them saying there is nothing wrong with the system, the posts should update automatically. They say that not all posts are approved, it has to be good caliber content. Now I know for sure based on the 38 posts in my inventory, that there is definitely some good caliber content in the 120+ other posts that aren’t on the list…but it has no chance of being sold, and it doesn’t look like TLA wants to do anything about it.
When was the last time your TLA posts have been updated? Is it just me having this problem? To check, login to your account, click “edit listings”, then click “manage posts”. You’ll then see a list of posts that are sold in TLA inventory.
Let me know what you find, help me figure out if this is really how long it takes for an update in posts, or if there is something wrong with TLA’s system here. It’s been bugging me for months now.
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Derek
08/28/2007 3:33 pmI’m interested to see if you get anywhere with this because I’ve questioned this myself. My list of posts does not seem to update at all for either of my blogs.
At first I thought maybe it was because I hadn’t sold any slots but my finance blog has all of the text ad spots sold and a few of the posts sold.
Maybe us small fish just don’t rank high enough to get the consistent updates.
David Pitlyuk
08/28/2007 11:29 pmI’ll definitely keep you updated with anything that I hear. I hope TLA at least responds and lets me know what the deal is…can we really expect these delays for post updates.
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08/31/2007 1:03 pmMy hunch is that it won’t list your new posts until the next PR update is out.
David Pitlyuk
08/31/2007 1:05 pmThat would be fine, but they didn’t say that when I contacted TLA.
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08/31/2007 1:10 pmI imagine, in the minds of TLA, that “good caliber content” is any content with a PageRank since that’s what they’re in the business of selling.