I recently came across TNX.net (pronounced “thanks”) on a recommendation from a thread on DigitalPoint. Lucky for me, the friendly guys at TNX came to me personally to ask for a review of their great service, something I was more than happy to do. These guys have everything you need to get started as an advertiser or webmaster, friendly support, organized statistics and great features that make it a nice alternative to other networks.

I have been using the TNX system for about one month at this point, and I gotta say I am impressed. Everything is so well laid out, and the advertising is quite affordable. I have seen a good amount of targeted traffic come from the ads I paid for with TNX.net, and the traffic I get is a lot more organic than the visits I get from search engines and other networks. I haven’t had a chance to give the service a fair trial as a publisher (webmaster), but from what I’ve heard its nothing but the best. In fact, a recent review from JimKarter.com shows an average of about $66/month (on around 3500 PR0 and PR1 backlinks) on a very generic website with a pagerank of 4. A solid turnout from a new service.

The payment method is done through what they call “TNX-points,” essentially a credit-based system of objectively buying and selling link space around the internet. I think this is pretty nice option, and there are some great opportunities to earn TNX-points if you are a publisher which you can later either use or convert to cash (roughly $1 per 1,000 points).

Let’s break down the system into Advertisers and Publishers:

Advertisers: I feel that the advertising users will have a great time using TNX to gain solid traffic. Why? Well the way they have their system laid out, it presents several advantages over the typical PPC (pay-per-click) networks in that you can avoid click fraud among other things, automated systems and link exchanges. A lot of the traffic you get from these places is unreliable, but with TNX, you get to narrow down exactly where you want your ads shown so your credits are not thrown away!

It’s very easy to create a new adverting campaign, and I like the fact that you don’t need to know all of the technical jargon that most other networks assume you already know. There are two main metrics that let you chose the Yahoo Backlinks & Google Pagerank that you would like the websites which are displaying your ads to have. Without the proper rankings, your ads don’t get shown! What’s more? You get the chance to narrow things down by category, and then you can even choose as specifically as using 10% of ads on an MMO blog with PR2, or 35% on an automobile e-zine with 300 Yahoo Backlinks. They even offer you a free link-generator that produces Google-friendly page links so you don’t get in trouble or banned form their engines. The features and the amount of detail that is put into every campaign is simply unbeatable.

Publishers: After initially accepting every kind of website (many raved of all their PR0 websites being elligible), the folks down at TNX.net have slightly upped the requirements, asking for pagerank 1.. .but not requiring it. If you cannot get into these other networks like NeverBlueAds and Text-Link-Ads, I think that you are in luck. So long as you actually have some good indexed content, the great support at TNX will approve your account . This is an ideal solution for those upstart websites that have yet to be realized to a full extent by engines and directories.

How does it all work? TNX gives you a code right from the get-go, and once you submit your website (very easy), you can start to advertise right away. Essentially, you tell the system what you have to offer, and they bring the traffic and revenue right to you! Prices you receive are calculated on a metric involving search engine rankings (not pagerank, thank goodness) and they even allow you to combine the services with other advertising brokers like Google’s Adsense or whoever floats your boat. But here comes the kicker: unlike other ad networks like Text-Link-Ads, you can display TNX ads on multiple pages, or even every page! Because you aren’t tied to your main page, your profitability might increase tenfold!

The features on both sides of the coin, advertisers and webmasters, offer huge advantages over other competing ad networks. The prices for advertisers are reasonable, and the placement and revenue for publishers is great. TNX.net is able to cut out waste by inviting more specific listings, and definitely pulls it out . The only disadvantage I can honestly say is that the system is new, but with 0.25% daily growth (or 89% annual growth) as an average, there is a cause for getting in on the action early. There is even a great affiliate program for those of us looking to invite some added earnings to our performance. With so many features, you gotta check out the TNX network.

-The Net Fool

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