P.S. My friend linked me to your “Seize the Blog Moment” post and I’ve decided to subscribe to your feed. Keep the good stuff coming ;)

In general, people want to read legitimate things from legitimate sources. In the blogosphere, it’s fairly easy to distinguish the “good” from the “bad,” and on top of that, your top bloggers are about a million times more reliant on referral traffic than they are on search engine traffic.

Thus, hosting TLA ads is a great idea for bloggers, and also, buying TLA ads is a great idea for people looking to beef up their own SERPs. The hosts make money (and since their outbound linking power and SERPs probably don’t matter all that much to them, it’s a good deal). The SEOs, on the other hand, also score a victory because they’re able to post their ads on pages that get legitimate, real-world traffic (as opposed to all this made-for-adsense crap).

Jesse, I have another site, http://deucetwo.com, which is just a test bed for designs and other random stuff that I do. Somehow, it drew a PR 6 out of the gate just like resiny.org. I think it did so on the strength of the domain name alone, as I’ve seen quite a bit of love going to domains that are both short AND in the dictionary. Pearsonified, on the other hand, despite its growing archives and increasing inbound linkage, is stuck on PR 5. I think it’s because you’ll likely never find “pearsonified” in the dictionary. Unless, of course, I can keep this blog running for the next 50 years, in which case I’d become somewhat of a cultural icon.

*Wakes up*

I always took my pr 6 for granted, as I got it about 3 weeks after my blog started, and I never did a lick of seo, so I took it to be a mistake and thought it’d go away, but I’ve still got it, and looking at the calculator that appears to be a good thing.

What really amazed me was how much better TLA is than any other system out there. If I popped boatload of adsense or YPN crap on my blog, I’d probably be lucky to make 5 bucks a month…

Seems to be a fantastic job all around.

I’d agree that it’s better than AdSense, by far.

Do you think those ads, if they happen to be a bit off-topic for the site, will hurt their rankings ?

If you’ve decided to sell four spots, then they’ll find four people who are willing to place ads there.

To really understand why this works, you need to understand a little bit about the world of SEO. People running optimization campaigns are able to score links from PR 5 and higher sites by purchasing from TLA’s inventory of sites. In many cases, the “perceived relevance” of your site may not matter nearly as much as the overall Google power you possess, so that’s why your links have that kind of value.

TLA is one of the most practical means of monetizing websites I’ve ever seen. I’ve been privileged enough to learn a lot about SEO this year from some people who really know what they’re talking about, and I can see why the TLA model is such a huge success.

On top of that, consider this: search engines literally drive the entire internet economy. It should come as no surprise, then, that manipulating the engines for optimum SERP rankings is projected to be a 6 billion dollar plus industry in 2006. With that much money changing hands, what’s a measley $300/mo. to resiny.org?

Based on what I know, your links are TOTALLY worth that – to the right people. TLA is hooked up with the right people.

I find it hard to swallow that I could make 300 bucks a month for some links ads on my site…