TLA / Text Link Ads

[MattBarker]

Hi folks,

Curious to hear what people know about the TLA situation since reports surfaced that they'd been de-indexed.  It looks like it's all been quiet since those early reports. Not many people admit to using TLA so perhaps you've heard something on the grapevine... nudge nudge wink wink.

[Vizergy]

I don't know, man.  When Barry Schwartz finally caved and no followed the paid ads on seoroundtable I figured that was about it.  The end.  He refused to do it out of principle for a very long time and then one day said 'screw it' and threw the tags on.  I have no doubt he will still get fans that wish to pay for a clearly paid spot on his site (and it has always been clearly marked as paid) but for the most part.... people buy them for the link juice.... I think it can still work for a while but Ole' Goog is getting a lot better a properly determining when a link is a TLA and seems to be coming down hard on them.  Personally I haven't used them in a very long time.

[MatomySEO]

Hi Matthew,

Thanks for asking about MediaWhiz SEO (formerly TLA). As you may have heard, we recently rebranded as part of the larger brand consolidation initiative at our parent company, MediaWhiz. You can read all about that initiative, and why we made the brand change from TLA to MediaWhiz SEO, here in Search Engine Journal: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/embracing-change-in-seo-goodbye-tla-hello-mediawhiz-seo/65421/

Bottom line: much like the rest of the SEO industry, we are evolving as a business, and our product model is evolving as well.

If you’d like to know more about our evolution from TLA to MediaWhiz SEO and what we are up to, please feel free to email me at bboser@mediawhiz.com. I look forward to hearing from you.

Brock Boser
Senior Vice President
MediaWhiz SEO