Green Llama

Media Whiz, better known as the owners of Text Link Ads, just released a new product to the public – Shopping Ads. The first thing that comes to mind when you visit the Shopping Ads site is – damn, this sure looks familiar. The interface is nearly identical to that of the Auction [...]

Coming up in the next few days is a Green Llama theme refresh. Not a whole redesign, mind you, but a freshening. As part of the update, I’ll have 4 125×125 button ads available in the top right of my sidebar. These ads seem to be all the rage these days, so [...]

There has been debate for quite some time about Google and paid text links. There’s no question that Google doesn’t like them, but it seems more and more likely that Google is actually penalizing sites for selling links. Greenllama.net itself got dropped from PR4 to PR1( the home page only, not the internal [...]

If you’re a Text Link Ads user ( and as a reader of the Green Llama, you damn well better be ), then there’s a chance you recently received this email, purportedly from the fine folks at TLA
Message-Id: <20070823181944.BF564754707@93810-web1.text-link-ads.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:19:44 -0500 (CDT)
Leroy,
As a Text Link Ads affiliate we’re pleased to let [...]

I don’t often read Tech Crunch, but they posted a little tidbit about Kontera, one of my favorite money make sources.  In July, Kontera accounted for a whopping 24% of my total online income.  TC reported that Kontera was able to secure an additional $10.3 million in their second round of funding.  That means good news for all [...]

Following up with my post about the incident with Sponsored Reviews this past weekend, I am happy to say everything worked out.  I received an email from Sponsored Reviews saying that that decided to reach into their own pockets, and pay the bloggers the full amount that they would’ve received.  In fact, I’ve already received [...]