Review of Text-Link-Ads.com

The following is a paid review.

I was asked to review Text Link Ads (aff) on ReviewMe. I've been using Text-Link-Ads as a publisher for quite a while now, so I have quite a few things to say about it, both positive and negative.

Interface wise, TLA rocks. It has a very intuitive interface, and I've been able to find my way around quite easily most of the time. There are some issues though: when you're editing your listings, it's not obvious which listings are really listed, unless you know what the difference is. As it turns out, if your site is listed, it will give a screenshot of your site when editing your listings, and a text: "your site is currently available at: link". It won't give you any info like this when your site is not listed though, which caused me to find out a few of my sites weren't listed a few weeks to late...

Their support is great; I've had a couple of issues were things weren't showing up the way they were supposed to, and every time I've contacted support about such an issue, they got back to me within 1 or 2 days and had fixed the problem.

Payments are also arranged nicely, you get paid after links have been up for a month or part of a month, and the payment is usually in within 3 days after the end of the month. During the month you can see a nice overview of what you've earned so far, and every time they've sold a link on one of your websites they will e-mail you. (That has become one of my favourite e-mails :) )

Installing the ad code is pretty easy when you have a supported blog platform, the WordPress plugin worked perfectly for me. It would be good though if you could change the color etc of your links in a page in your WordPress admin instead of their interface. I use the PHP code on some sites as well, and that has worked perfectly as well, though it's a bit harder to implement.

Their feedvertising stuff is cool as well, but I haven't given that a proper try either yet. What I did see in my quick try of it was that it's easy to use, as are all their products. It allows you to show personal ads under your RSS feeds, which might be very useful for cross promoting your sites.
I've honestly never made money off of their affiliate program yet, but I haven't been trying hard either, I might give that a try some more in the coming months. I can say that getting links and banners etc. for that is quite easy.