1 month ago, I started using TNX after reading numerous blog posts about them. I read them here:
You can also Google “tnx.net review” on your search bar to get FAKE positive reviews. The reason most webmasters do FAKE positive reviews of TNX.net is because they want you to sign up under their referrals. When you signed up under their referral ID, they will make commission of links you buy and sell. Remember, Google really hate sites that buy and sell links and if you let them detect you, you will lose value on their SE.
Like many publishers and advertisers before me, I signed up with TNX.net and spent the whole day trying to learn about their system. According to many reviews, TNX was suppose to be much better than TextLinkAds. Their system allows advertisers to place links on individual pages instead of the entire site. This sounds like a good idea because I can sell or buy links for individual pages. In addition “TNX claimed that their links is undetectable by Google”, so this could be a very effective way to build links to your site.
On February 27th, I started to test TNX with one of my sites. The site I used has been established 3 months and it was getting around 100 UV/day from Google. About a week ago, all of a sudden, Google devalued that whole site. I didn’t get banned, but all the pages on that site suddenly lost its ranking. You can check out the stats below to see my traffic.
I was pissed, so I spent about 3 days to look around to find the real reason why I lost all my traffics from Google. After checking all my stats and reading shit load of blogs and forums, I found out that it was because of TNX. Note: “TNX claimed that their links is undetectable by Google”, but I found this link that will detect TNX paid links on your page.
http://www.wmtips.com/tools/paid-links-detector/
I was selling links on my site and the link above detects my paid links. I think to myself, WTF? Learning this, I removed all my links from TNX and I also stop selling links using TNX. If the link above can detect my TNX links, Google can too. Google has started to come down on sites that buy and sell links and they will lower your SERPs ranking if they detect you buying and selling links.
Be smart and stay away from TNX.net. If you want to get banned from Google and lose traffics, use TNX.net. If you want to be successful at internet marketing, ask questions and work hard, don’t look for shortcuts. People who tend to look for shortcuts are the one falling behind. Stick to building quality contents and do what you love. Build quality links by submitting to directories, commenting on blogs with dofollow, submit to article directories, post on forum, and submit to social book marketing sites.
I’m not in the mood right now to write so much because TNX is giving me a headache and I just can’t believed I fall for the “Google cannot detects your links when you use TNX” lie. Remember, if a small site like the site above can detect paid links, Google can too.
Here are more honest reviews of TNX.net:
You are one hack of an idiot who are supposed to get banned.
If you have no freakin’ idea how to build links properly, you shouldn’t have started to build them at first place.
TNX is just a tool that lets you get inbound links and it looks like you suck in building links.
The fact that you have chosen wrong anchors and then deleted all links that you received makes you an idiot.
To Felix,
Please go to Google and search TNX.net or Text link ads. TNX are no where to be found on Google. This site can detect paid links: http://www.wmtips.com/tools/paid-links-detector/. I don’t see why that link can detect TNX links and Google can’t.
Felix, are you working for TNX?
Do you know what robots.txt is and what is does? Check TNX’s robots.txt file to see that TNX has banned Google from crawling the site!
TNX does not need to be listed in Google! People already know it is a powerful tool to get links and those who know what those links are for, succeed in promoting their websites.
>>This site can detect paid links …
That is a simple link detector that detect any outbound links.
>>Felix, are you working for TNX?
No dude, I don’t work for TNX, I just managed to use it wisely.
Felix,
This link will detect paid links only, please check it out for yourself:
http://www.wmtips.com/tools/paid-links-detector/.
This is a very simple system that can detects TNX and Text-links-ads links. It will not detect links that you insert yourself. Test it out for yourself and do come back to give your opinion.
Google clearly states that they will penalize links buying and selling. I believed Google and I don’t want to mess with them. You can go ahead and buy/sell links at your own risk.
Google is watching you.
Tim you know nothing about link building and you’re just a blind Google lover
I’ve used TNX and I don’t think it has effected my sites position or traffic from Google. Just using it to get me links rather than selling links though.
Google may have wacked you, but check the first page for car insurance, all those corporates buy links, its just that google only wacks the small guys.
Well Can you judge a text based outbound link as a paid link if that is being merged into the content of the website and then there is no indication of any sponsored link or stuff.?? Can you really?
I know your answer is NO..You cannot.. Then how on earth can you rely on simple Bull crap tool to do that for you?
The sole point should be: Paid links are OK as long as they are used wisely, no matter what so ever channel u use to buy them.
Get stuck in a network, then you may invite some darn for you. Period
Ohh and what worse?? Were you on earth when the PR penalty occured for paid links??
Google reduced the PR of many websites to miniature figures, But REMEMBER, No SERPS were affected.. If thats the price for paid links
I am sure many would sacrifice PR..its one useless green bitchy pixel bar..
Cud derive some importance in the coming time, but as of now..it sucks!
the way paid-links-detector works is it requests given url twice and detects outgoing links that are not the same in both responds.
in tnx.net case you would think, that in one page tnx system would show the same link, but paid-links-detector is adding a random get parameter like ‘&tmoipld=18′ and in this case the tnx system wouldn’t show any link. so you can easily be detected.
i doubt that by default the google crawler is adding fake parameters to detect payed links. maybe only if they are having some doubts.
anyway you could be a link building pro and still get cough!
Hey Tim,
I was just searching for TNX reviews and came across your web site. I have to say I am surprised that you were sold so easily on that wmtips.com tool because it doesn’t detect paid links.
Sorry, but it just doesn’t. I ran it on my site which doesn’t have any paid links and it detected a 728*90 banner advertisement as a paid link!
I did another experience with TNX by selling links on one of my top sites. After selling links through TNX for 3 months and getting some decent money, most of my pages witness a PR decrease. Selling links is definitely not good because it will devalue your site with Google. When the people that sell links take themselves off from TNX.net, it affects the buyers a lot. Google see you links and then they don’t see the links anymore after a few months will hurt you ranking a lot. Google sees that you are buying links, therefore they lower your keywords tremendously. Go check Alexa rank for TNX.net, you can see that a lot of people are leaving TNX.net because they reap no benefit from using this ad network.
Another similar program worth considering is Etology. I’ve been using this service for a few months now and so far I’m quite happy with the results. I haven’t had a chance to advertise with this system yet, but as a publisher I love the freedom to sell ad space based on my own prices. Check out this review that I wrote a few weeks ago and let me know what you think.
Yep I tried that tool and on my completely whitehat site it tried telling me an internal link could be a paid link???? WTF lol.
Tried it on a site that I know has TNX links and guess what…. no paid links on that site
Not a very good tool at all
An update for anyone still using TNX. Check out their traffics: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/tnx.net
Everyone is leaving TNX because all the publishers lose their PR on front page and inner pages. Good luck with your decisions.
Monetize Guru is right!
It happened to me, just like he said.
My site was #1 in Google out of 26,000,000.
I used TNX for 3 months, and slowly built links.
Then, right after a Google update, my home page disappeared from Google. I can still find a few of my backpages, but they are way down Google’s search list.
Monetize Guru did not say how he got back into Google’s good graces. I have not achieved that yet. Some other blogs said that you should delete TNX and write a letter to Google promising never to do it again.
I informed TNX, and deleted them from my website. I added a few new web pages, updated my Google sitemap, and notified Google about the sitemap update. I have not set the penitence letter yet.
Promoting their affiliate program is quite a profitable idea as well. Concerning the link building, as long as one uses this program to get limited number of links is good. Otherwise he risks a google penalty or something like that.