Team Link Network is a new entrant to the text link market. Apart from the usual income opportunities for publishers and advertisers, what is interesting is its unique and potentially very profitable affiliate program.

This offering allows you to make money from Text Link promotion, placement and revenue share. Here is a summary of the service:

How To Make Money As An Affiliate

• Place a banner on your website which advertises the service – Paying 25% of the sale value (Sales range from $50 upwards)
• Optionally join a Text Link Network Board. The full details are here. In summary there are a number of boards and you can elect to be allocated to one. Maximum fifteen people in the board. When the board is full the person at the top gets paid $1360. The balance of the board is split into two and the whole process starts again.

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Earlier this month Google announced another enhancement to their Adsense program. Its called targetable custom channels.

It works a bit like this:

• Each Google Adsense ad-block can be allocated to one or more “channels”. These are used to track the performance (including earnings) for the ad-block.
• This allows the publisher to experiment with colour, placement and Ad type to determine which combination works best for each site.
• Usually Ads are allocated to random Ad-Blocks by Google.
• Now, with targetable custom channels, advertisers can choose to locate their ads within a specified location on a publishers site.

There is a bit of debate about when and if this offering will be effective.
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After some recent downtime the DMOZ open directory is “open for business” again. Submissions once more being accepted.

If you’d like to know a bit more about this iconic directory you can check out this site Dummies Guide to DMOZ.org or vist the site itself DMOZ