I could make $3 a month advertising with you? Sign me up!

Ages ago I was paid to review TNX.net, a promising upcoming link broker system; it had a strong user base, decent statistics and looked the part. Business seems to have been going well for them too and I'm glad, but I can only imagine that experiences like mine aren't conducive to new registrations.

I'll just say that TNX works well, it's a good system and I've only seen good things with it. Unfortunately their "link calculator" is underselling the system by a country mile - or at least underselling my website by a mile.

Seopher.com has 450-500 pages, 2248 comments (at the time of writing) and between 600-1200 visitors a day (depending on which statistics package you believe). I have ~700 RSS subscribers and because I sell links Google reduced my PageRank from 5 to 0.

TNX.net has a link calculator to try and entice you into trying their system, showing you how much you could earn through their system. Unfortunately, I don't believe the information it provides. See the image below for how it thinks I could be performing...

On the left you can see how it thinks life could be if Google hadn't taken away my Pagerank... I'd love to be making nearly $2000 a month in advertising. However, on the right hand side is how it perceives my current website. Even with a ridiculously high "link popularity" figure I could earn only $3 a month. If I left it at the 9000 it figured I was, I'd only be making $1.80 a month through TNX.

Well readers, I think it's fair to say that I comfortably make more than $3 a month from Seopher.com. Sure PageRank makes a big difference, but I'm not sure it's quite $1872pcm.

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