What are your text links worth ?

Patrick posted over here about a new tool the Text Link Ads Crew have been working on.

Our calculator factors in:

* Traffic of your website – the lower the Alexa ranking, the higher the price.
* Link popularity of your website – the more links (and more quality links), the higher the price.
* Theme of your website - there is more demand for some themes than others.
* Number of links to be sold – the fewer the number of links on a page, the higher the price.
* Sitewide or single page placement – “sitewide� vs. on a single page of your website (slightly more value given to links that appear sitewide).
* Location on the page - more value when the links are placed in an area where they have the best chance of being clicked.

Please note a few things:

* The price given by the calculator will not always directly correspond to prices in Text Link Ads’ inventory.
* The tool is by no means exact, but is meant only to give a “ballpark figure� for link prices. There is wide variation in link pricing, and some of the automated factors in the pricing equation (such as Alexa) will always be imprecise.
* The calculator values sitewide links higher than single page links, but that doesn’t mean we generally recommend sitewide links. Sometimes the “marketplace� doesn’t mirror the true relative value of different types of links, as some buyers are still using outdated metrics in their valuations.

Pretty interesting….

Go Here and see what your text links are worth