TLA – Running Scared

Numerous blogs report receiving an e-mail today from TLA containing the following text:

As a Text Link Ads affiliate we’re pleased to let you know that we’ve begun using tinyurl.com to shorten and secure our affiliate referral links. We encourage you to update your affiliate links using the following:

Homepage URL

http://tinyurl.com/….

Starter Promo URL

http://tinyurl.com/….

** Please note that our old affiliate urls will no longer work in one week so please update today. Thank you!

It’s a blatant attempt to allow bloggers to try to hide their affiliation with TLA, for fear of Google penalization. Nice try, but it’s a desperate move that won’t work. The fact that they’re directly recommending that their customers try and hide that relationship says a lot though.

This is starting to get fun to watch, in a sick way.