I have talked about TNX before in what it seemed like a praise of them. Its been six months already since I first tried them out and I have used them extensively all this period and I have drawn some conclusions which I would like to share with you guys.

The system in theory is pretty effective but in practice it has many pitfalls. First of all for those that don't know TNX let me just say its an easy way to get one way backlinks to your site. Of course there is a price to pay for this. You create your ad campaign, you choose what types of sites you want it appearing on and then you can potentially get thousands of backlinks withing days. So far so good.

In my experiments with TNX this my conclusions:

Not clear backlink benefits

I have tr

Are you a lone template/logo designer ?

Are you sick of trying to outbid the big companies on the elance getacoder guru and the like ?

Don't lose faith !!
Most webmasters forums are filled with webmasters who could be given a hand at making their sites look prettier.

Search the net for webmasters forum. I recommend digital point forums or v7n forums - lots of people hang out there. Most of them are enterpreneurs and could not bother to spend time on their logos or templates. They prefer to outsource this to other fellow forum members.

Of course you have to show them some of your work, and maybe charge less for you first gigs until people trust you enough to give you jobs that require more money.

There is also people that woul

Google's algorithm is structured in such a way that it sees links from website A to website B as a vote from owner of site A about the content of site B. The more votes one site gets the better rank it can get on the search engine results. This has created a need for websites to get as many links as possible from as many websites as possible.

I am not claiming that the algorithm is so simple that links alone can help you rank better but experience has shown that they do help. Of course the quality of the site that links to you makes a difference but definetelly in the general sense the more backlinks one can have the better it is.

One can get links naturally, because people like the content of the site and link to it or it can get "unatural" links. Link exch

I know lots of webmasters and SEO gurus that say that PR (google pageRank - the little green bar on the google toolbar) is not worth that much but everyone is using it as a measure.

Webmasters refuse to exchange links with you if they think your PR is inferior to their website's PR. Lots of programs (reviewme.com ...) could reject your site because of low PR, some directory owners display the list of sites ordered with PR.

So ... here is some simple steps you can follow to get your sites PR higher than it is and maybe get some extra traffic while you are at it.

Post your link in forums using signatures and/or places that allow website reviews, put the site url in the signature with your target keywords for titlesSubmit to free and/or paid directories (i