Make sure to check out the update. Patrick Gavin has stated that the TLA affliate program has not been removed.

Many bloggers have noticed problems with the Text Link Ads affiliate program not reporting affilites. Those mistakes can be costly at 25$ per referral.
Over the past two months we have sent 200+ people to our affiliate link, yet not conversions. Averaging 1-2 per month usually, I figured something was wrong.

Contacting Support

I have contacted support about our referral problems twice. The first time they shrugged it off saying that sometimes it takes 20 days for an affiliate to be reported. Instead of further inquiring about that (which would be a problem itself) I thought maybe I had some left referrals to be processed.

A month later I decided to contact support again stating I was still having problems. Today I received a response:

Our affiliate program is currently on hold and will re-launch completely in the following couple months.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for understanding.

Jonathan Dingman
Product Manager

This was the first time I had ever seen something about them acknowledging a problem with their system, that has gone on for weeks.

I definitely think they are in the wrong here without letting people know it wasn’t working. Some people actually spend money advertising their referral link. Others, like myself definitely count on that money every month. Their payouts are always on time and very well organized.

It’s odd that they have stated to me that the affiliate program is put on hold. Yet, you can still go to the affiliate program and promote their service.

The Text Link Ads affiliate program has been arguably one of the biggest money makers for bloggers. Even the big bloggers promote the service, at 25$ a referral, why not?

It’s definitely time for another service to step up and cash in on this void that the Text Link Ads affiliate program will leave on bloggers looking to earn money.

Make sure to check out the update. Patrick Gavin has stated that the TLA affliate program has not been removed.

A lot of the sponsored post affiliate programs are flawed. Pay Per Post affiliate program is a joke, while some of the others only pay when you refer an advertiser. Many bloggers don’t refer advertisers, if they did, they wouldn’t need the program in the first place.

I first reviewed the Sponsored Reviews Affiliate Program when it launched. The one thing they seemed to be lacking was an affiliate program. By having one they made their service that much more attractive to promote. Thats why so many promote Text-Link-Ads, due to their 25$ per referral payout.

Sponsored Reviews affiliate program wasn’t that bad, until they changed it.

New Affiliate Layout

I can understand the need for an advertiser to spend money for you to be paid for referring one. Depending on how much they spend you can earn up to 175$ for referring an advertiser. Not bad.

Where they went wrong is when they changed the blogger affiliates. Before they changed it, you could earn 5$ just for referring a blogger. I assume they must also get their blog approved first for the referral to count.

Now they must earn money for you to get credit for your referral. Your referral must earn 50$ before you even earn 5$! So if they earn 49.99$ you get nothing! For your referral to earn 50$, Sponsored Reviews earns about 17$ (35%).

To change that part of the affiliate program is pretty flawed, in that you could refer 100’s of new bloggers for their system and earn nothing. Looks like I am going to pull my feed ads promoting Sponsored Reviews!

One thing Sponsored Reviews was lacking was an affiliate program. Problem solved!

Blogger Referral

The blogger referral is kind of low. At only 5$ per blogger, the incentive isn’t very high to actively promote your affiliate link. Earning the 5$ plus a small percent of what the blogger makes each post would definitely be more enticing. Especially if you could manage to refer an active blogger.

When you refer a blogger you get paid once the blogger once they get a blog approved.

Advertiser Referral

As usual, the money is in referring advertisers. Sponsored Reviews claim you can earn up to 175$ per advertiser. The payouts are based on money spent by the advertiser.

The average advertiser spends “several hundred dollars” so you “should” get at least 25$ per each advertiser you refer. Of course, theres that strong chance that you get nothing.

Your referral payouts will be made once per month. The cookies set for your affiliate link is 180 days so that’s a great plus to the system.

Are you already a Sponsored Reviews member? If so, are you going to use their affiliate program? If you aren’t a member, are you going to join now?

To try to find another way to earn money online I have been experiencing with NeverBlue Ads. There are different websites you can promote and each one has it’s different terms and payout.

Earning Money

I have yet to earn money with Neverblue Ads. My banners get click throughs, but they just aren’t converting. There isn’t many things that would fit here to promote, but there are plenty on Its All Free Online. Their freebie and survey section seem to have the most offers to promote.

Depending on your niche you can easily work one of the promotions into a post and promote your post.

Super Affiliate

Zac Johnson has posted about NeverBlue Ads before. In his latest post, he reports that he was able to earn 10,000 in a month through this program.

He has most success with PPC campaigns which is my next experiment. Not only will I be able to send traffic to my website, I can also potentially earn money by doing so. Sounds like a win-win situation for me.

Neverblue Ads Affiliate Program

If you aren’t much for promoting products, if you can earn by getting affiliates. I haven’t seen Neverblue Ads advertised much.

Each person you refer will get you 2$ or 2% of their earnings. I would recommend going with the 2% as I’ve had troubles for the $2 converting

Has anyone tried this program?

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