For those of you who don't know what TNX is, you're probably better off not knowing. I'll tell you what it is, though, so you can make up your own mind about it. It's a text link exchange service where you amass points that you can do one of three things with: 1) Use them to purchase text links on other sites, 2) Sell them to other TNX members, or 3) Sell them back to TNX.

I don't remember exactly what date I joined, but I had them remove my blog when I saw what was happening. There are still some of their text links on various pages of my blog, but they'll be gone as soon as I get paid for the points I'm selling back to them. The text links look exactly like paid links, despite their claim to the contrary, and that's the biggest problem I have with them. If I had complete control over how they were formatted, it wouldn't be so bad.

Another problem I had was that people were purchasing links on nonexistent pages, mostly old translated pages (generated by the Global Translator plugin). Deleting them everyday was turning into a royal PIA for me and watching my points drop accordingly wasn't too amusing either. When I signed up with TNX.net, I thought their "spidering" method would be to actually crawl my blog pages. I don't know where they got the links from, but some have been nonexistent for months.

My recent PR drop from 4 all the way to 0 has made my links worth very little at TNX since they use each link's PR to measure their value. This translates into pennies per link. I don't think it's worth it. I'm removing the code as soon as I can after what I earned in a month makes it into my PayPal account.

My opinion of TNX is that it's a good idea being managed in the wrong ways and I don't recommend it as a means to supplement your income. The small amount of money you'll earn isn't worth the effort you'll have to put into it. I'll be removing the image ad for it in a few minutes.