Have you been building websites for sometimes and would like to start earning some revenue from it? Why not start selling text link ads from your website? I am sure there are some webmasters who are interested at placing a text link on your site, especially if they have the same content or theme as yours. However, how much should you charge for your placement? Be careful here, setting over priced text link can gain you no customer; setting under priced text link might earn you less. Nowadays, seo has been quite popular and most webmasters can read tones of information from other sites about how to buy quality links with suitable price. Over priced link might earn you only short terms of revenue; good priced link can give you long term revenue.


How to choose a good price then? Basically, the price of a text link depends on the link popularity, pagerank, pageviews and content of your site.

How much link popularity does your site have?

Having high link popularity can certainly boost your link value a lot higher, even you have low pagerank or traffic. It is the most foreseen factor for webmasters, or I should say experienced webmasters when seeking link partners. If your link popularity has exceeded over 100K, you can reasonably set your monthly price around $50 per month, minimum. Something over 300K can certainly earn you $100 per month. Do check your link popularity.

How many pagerank does your site have?

Second comes to pagerank. Even though people know that pagerank isn't as important as it was believed back ago, still people tend to look for high pagerank site for link placement. Having PR4 can put you a reasonable pricing, whereas having less than that might lower your price down below $15 per month unless you have high traffic. Bear in mind that don't just rely on your pagerank to sell the link. Do check your pagerank.

How much traffic does your site have?

Remember that when we are telling others about how much traffic our site has, we are talking about unique visitors and pageviews. Don't mess out the number of hits with unique visitors. An unique visitor can generate lots of hits and pageviews. If your site has popular content with busy traffic everyday, you can also sell out links very easily. Relevancy can't be anymore important in search engine optimization, especially Google. Any experienced seo guys should know putting link at relevant webpage can boost his site value enormously. So, don't neglect this factor!

In conclusion, earning revenue by selling text links can be profitable, especially if you have gained some loyal partners in long terms. To fully get the advantage of text link placement, it is required to place a link for more than three or four months, thus if your site is a good one, should have no problem for them to stay with you. You can also check your link price with this tool, which uses a formula to derive a suitable pricing for you.

About the author:
CY Tang is the search engine profession, helping websites to rank higher on search engines. Visit his Seo Blog for more seo articles and tips.