well last night I decided I wanted to try something new.  I created a text link campaign called Johnchow Sucks in hope that will grab some attention from the viewer.

I went and bought 3 ad spots on three different blogs.

The first blog was http://zacjohnson.com/ and the only text links he offers were thetopspots. it must of been really late last night when I purchased the link because my assumption was that the link was going to be there for a month. When I woke up this morning and I found out that the ad runs only for 1 week. What the fuck, why the hell would you charge $30 for a week long link but that’s probablly the trick of using those are you on my top spot .( I’m going to put one of those up real soon to) they don’t really explain. they really caught me. The good think is thay at least  http://zacjohnson.com/ give you a free t shirt with free shipping. that will save me some money I felt i lost.

All in all the link did do pretty good better then the rest did in one day. that’s why I’m mad because I wanted it there for a whole month.

The second link came from http://www.johncow.com/The price for the link was $30 dollars for the month. which compared to a week, was great. The text link did do the worse though. I think it’s because http://www.johncow.com/ is great but mostly entertaining not that informative. So when people visit his blog they don’t expect to believe everything on the blog. I also paid an extra $7 dollars for the no follow to be disabled which now I realize was not the right thing to do for this blog.

the third blog came from http://www.bloggingtips.com the first day test ok but not that much better then johncow.com. The bad part is that once again last nite I also did that stupid topspot crap which means my link won’t be there for long. the good part it only cost me $5 bucks

total cost for Johnchow sucks campaign: $72 bucks

estimated daily traffic coming in: 25 visits

Conclusion:

I think I learned alot because of this. basically I will get 415 visitors to this blog for $72 bucks. thats like $ .18 cents a visit dam I got robbed. I don’t think that text link ads are any good and I suggest you don’t try them. what will happen is that you will bleed to death. in other words your money will slowly drain till your blog’s fail. It will bring you visits but you have to have a great blog with a great conversion rate to do anything. what I plan on doing next will be to try a paid review. I think It will be more expensive but I think I will get alot more visits then using text link ads.