All you’re concerned about is being able to pay your bills at the end of the month. You’re not one of those lucky few bringing in enough via adsense alone. Far from it, it’s taking you 2 - 3 months to accumulate the $100 minimum Google requires before they issue a payment to you. You’re working 16 hours every day and if you leave it to Google alone, you’re lucky some days to make 5 cents. If you don’t find another way of making money with your website you’re going to have to abandon your ambition to earn a living working for yourself from home. Otherwise you’ll be living in a cardboard box under a bridge somewhere.

You discover that you can be making up to $180 extra per month selling text link ads on your site. You’ll be glad for even $50 extra per month. You figure any little bit will help so you go ahead and join a program that will sell text links on your site. It doesn’t even occur to you that you might be violating anyone’s rules and regulations. You’re just thinking, the point of all this is to make money. You need to make money because you need to eat. You need a roof over your head. Maybe you have a family depending on you. You took a chance starting a website. You didn’t start a website, whatever kind of website it might be, a blog, a dating site, an online store, because you had time on your hands to waste. You did it for the same reason people go out and start businesses. It’s a business endeavor and your livelihood depends on money coming out of it.

But before you start selling text link ads on your website, you should know that you could lose the page rank that makes your site an asset to buyers of text link ads to begin with. You could even get your site kicked out of Google’s index.

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Google has shown during a recent page rank update that it means business where cracking down on sites buying and selling text link ads is concerned and they don’t care who you are, how big or how small, how well-known or obscure your website.

Hopefully the companies like text-link-ads.com will try to work within Google’s guidelines in order to protect buyers and sellers. Google has tried to make allowances so honest people like you who are just looking for some additional income to come out of their website can sell text link ads without having to be penalized, simply by adding a no-follow rel tag to the links. But such a tag creates a situation where those buyers who buy text links for the purpose of boosting their page rank will not get the boost in page rank they paid for; and it would seem a large number of text link ad buyers are people looking to pay to get a higher page rank.

What this means is that the companies that bring buyers and sellers of text link ads together would see a large drop in their own profits if they complied with Google’s rules regarding the no-follow rel tag because their buyers would drop off significantly if the benefit they’re after is no longer present. So complying creates a problem for them; but not complying creates a problem for you. And in a way not complying can create a problem for them as well if enough of the websites in their inventory get penalized with a lowered page rank or get de-indexed by Google for buying text links ads or selling text link ads. It seems like complying would be in the best interest of everyone. After all, people who buy links on other sites to try to boost their page rank are essentially cheating the system. Those who buy ads for honest reasons will not be affected by a no-follow rel tag so the no-follow rel tag only impacts the cheaters. Unfortunately it seems the cheaters are larger in number. Everyone wants a high page rank. A high page rank means your website is worth something; and nowadays if you can’t get a high page rank the old fashioned way (earn it) you get it the new fashioned way (buy it). But is it fair that your site should get placed higher than another site regardless if your site is a higher quality site or not because you boosted your page rank by paying for text links? Google doesn’t think so; and when Google finds out that’s what you’ve done they drop your page rank or kick you out of their index. Of course you would be the seller of the text link ad and not the buyer, but don’t imagine that means you’re safe from Google’s wrath. Google penalizes both buyers and sellers of text link ads.