I heard great things about text-link-ads from a wide variety of blogs so I thought I’d give it a try on my largest site, GamingVidz.com. I created an account, applied to display text-link-ads on GV and was automatically denied. Now because GV is a large site with over 220,000 posts and well over 500,000 page views a month, I decided to call them up and see why I was denied. Drew from TLA reviewed my submission and said I was at first denied because GV did not have a high enough link popularity score; however, he then followed by saying that the site was close enough that he would just manually override it for me!

After he manually put me in the program I moved onto the steps of inputting the code on my site. After reaching the stage to find out which code to use I saw that there was no option for vBulletin 3.6x forums, so I called Drew up again and after speaking for a few minutes he told me to just download a backup of my database and to try the vBulletin 3.5x code. It only took me about five minutes to put it all in and it worked out just fine. As you can see, what was intially a denial turned into another publisher I’m now displaying on my site that I wouldn’t have been able to unless I called them up. Kontera was the first publisher I got into via contacting them on phone after being initially denied (you can read about it here). I like tla, because the ads are just that - text links. It’s always nice to have ads on a site that aren’t too intrusive.

The moral of the story? Never give up on a publisher program, affiliate program or any application you’re at first denied for because there’s always a chance you can still get in. I think the tendancy is for people to give up after being denied, but if you follow up with a phone call or email you might get in after all. Good luck out there.