With this guide, a smaller reasonably established blog can easily earn several hundred dollars a month – end of story. Firstly we need a quick explanation of PageRank, if you understand it well enough you can skip on to the next section of the post.

Page Rank

Page Rank is a page ranking (of course) system which was started by Google. Originally forming the majority of their ranking algorithm its since taken a more moderated part in deciding what websites show first in a search and been expanded upon greatly since the original idea – but one thing stays the same – it is a ranking from 0-10 given to a page which can be used to guage google’s opinion of the worth of that page.

The way this is built up is simple to explain. Imagine there are 3 websites called “A”, “B” and “C”. Now A links to C, and B links to C. That means A and B have “voted” for C which will mean the value of A+B are used to determine their votes, and increase the value of C.

Through some complex calculations Page Rank is formed from the number of pages linking to you, and their authority.  What that eventually leaves you with is a Page Rank which tells people the authority of your page. To have a link from a page which is PR5 is worth much more than one that has PR2. Now if I PR5 links to you, its considered a vote for your site for 5 “points” as opposed to 2 points.

Text Link Ads

This is where Text-Link-Ads comes in – a company which sells text links on websites that have high PageRank. You may think you won’t qualify for this, and you won’t be making 10,000$ a month per page if you don’t have PR10′s but from PR3 upwards they often will accept you.

You can have ten links per page of yours, and links on even a PR3 (which is easy to get) will sell for 20-30$ a link, per month.

For example, on Entropy we have over 20 pages listed with them – as you can see it can become easy to bring in thousands of dollars (or at least hundreds) a month without doing loads of impressions. There are also a lot of ways to build up your PR (directories, sharing links with friends) that don’t cost money.

Easiest Way

What you need to tell the PageRank of your pages is a PageRank checker like Quirk’s Search Status and go through your blog pages; but if you are using WordPress there is an easier way! Install the “Page SEO” plugin for your WordPress blog and let it run – it’ll give you a list of all your pages with PR.

Sign Up

Now all thats left for you to do is sign up – which is free – and start making money at Text-Link-Ads (aka InLinks).

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