The most important part that I like about blogging is reviewing products or service that I use in my daily life. When you share your experience of using a product/service with others, they may grab some new ideas, and you will get the satisfaction of sharing something worthwhile for others or your valuable readers.
In this post, I am sharing my experience of using Infolinks. I believe most of the readers of this blog know what Infolinks is. Still I am giving a small explanation here for the sake of those who are not familiar with Infolinks.
What is Infolinks and why you should use it in your blog?
Infolinks is an in-text PPC ad program that allows you to monetize a website or blog. Even though it is an in-text ad program, the most important feature of this ad program is the availability of five different types of add units that we can choose to use on a website. Before going to more details on Infolinks, it will be interesting for you to watch a short video about Infolinks.
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=13&v=hLiiD6wZeMo
When you compare Infolinks with the other type of advertisements of the similar kind, you can easily notify the following advantages over its other counterparts that may tempt you to use it in your blog.
>Getting approval as a publisher is easier.
>Threshold limit of payment is $50 when you use PayPal or Payoneer as your mode of payment.
>Infolinks ads are easy to customize. You can have the options to turn on and turn off the ads according to your needs that you like.
>It is compatible with AdSense and other ad networks.
>Infolinks Ads are highly compatible on mobile devices.
>If you have any issues with your AdSense account, it acts as a better alternative.
Five different type of Ad units
1.Intext Ads
In this type of ad, Infolinks hyperlinks the keywords on your blog with the most suitable advertisement matching it. The ad is customizable, and you can change the colours. Here you can have the choice to choose the number of ads you need to show ranging up to 12 in number. Even though it is possible to choose up to 12 ads here, it is better to choose the number of ads depending upon the word length of a blog post. Otherwise, it may annoy your readers when they come across more number of Ads on a single page.
2.Infold Ads
This ad is supposed to be the most converting one. It appears as a popping and floating banner at the end portion of the website visible to the reader when they open a site. (Refer figure above)
3.Intag Ads
This type of ad displays ad related to the top keywords in the website. This add is customizable, and you can easily change the colour of the ad as well as the position of the ad.
4.Inframe Ads
It is a display of floating ad banners at those spaces where the website have unused margins like the one shown in the figure above.
5.Inscreen Ads
It is a display of pop-up ads that appear as shown in the figure when you access a page of the blog or website. You can customize this add to control its display.
Drawbacks of Infolinks
The Inframe Ads may not show up on the website even when it is active. It seems to be obstructive and overlapping at times. Still, the On/Off options is a great help to run the other type of Ads even if we turn off the Inframe Ads.
It seems that some of the advertisements they show as Intext Ads are not relevant to the topic of the content. It may not be of interest to the readers. So Ad relevancy is one thing that needs to be improved.
Also, Read the review of Propeller Ads and Ayboll Ads
How to sign up for Infolinks
Signing up for Infolinks is much easier. You can sign up here for Infolinks by following the simple steps given below.
- Go to Infolinks website
- Here you select the ‘Join Us’ tab.
- Enter all the details here for creating your account.
- Select the ‘Join’ button.
- It may take at least 24 hours for checking your website to get approval, and you will get an e-mail confirmation for the same.
- Once you get approved, log into the dashboard of Infolinks.
- Here, select the option ‘Integrate’.
- You will get a display of different options choices here. Select the option ‘WordPress’ if your blog is on WordPress platform otherwise choose the corresponding choice.
- Follow the onscreen instructions and download Infolinks plugin.
- Upload the plugin to your blog.
- Once the plugin is activated, you can have the ads getting displayed on your blog.
Do you like to earn little more money from your blog? I know you will like to boost your income from your blog in one way or the other. Infolinks referral program is one of that ways to boost your income. Sounds interesting, right? Let me go further and explain how it works.
For example, if someone sign up from the referral link you have in your blog, you will get 10% of their income for the first twelve months after they join. Why are you waiting for? You can now join for the Infolinks referral program and start earning from today.
Conclusion
You may say that Infolinks is the best alternative for Adsense. But it is always better to find out what options work better for your website or blog. So it is a good idea to experiment with different Ad programs and find out which works well with your website most in terms of income as well as other factors like the reader engagement. Please feel free to have your opinions on Infolinks in the comments column so that I can come up with more ideas for my for forthcoming posts.
Image Credit : Screenshots from my Infolinks account.
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Hi Reji,
I have InfoLinks installed but I keep changing my mind about having it activated. You have written a great review here. I’m just not sure I like all of the ads popping up here and there. I know I can turn some off and on. Maybe I will try that; turn one on at a time.
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Hi Monna,
Good to hear from you again. Even I had the same issue when I first started using Infolinks. It may feel like a bit annoying to the readers when there are Ads all over the content.But, it is only a matter of time to get accustomed to all the setting in the account profile so that you can customize it according to your needs. Hope you do that again to make any changes.
Thanks and have a great time.
Reji Stephenson
Hi Reji,
Good to be here again.
What an informative review on infolinks
Though i have had some inhibitions as Monna said in her comment.
I too opted it and later removed it, but an in dept study shows its is
worth opting for. I have posted a small note in this regard and this
post is mentioned in it. It speaks all.
Have a wonderful time of blogging
Here is the link: http://www.pvariel.com/i-for-infolinks-make-money-online-via-infolinks/
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Hi Brother Phil,
It is always a privilege to see your comments in my blog and thank you for the same.
Regarding Infolinks, it is a good idea to add it along with your Adsense account but make sure you use the settings in your account according to your needs so that it may not annoying your readers and not conflicting with your Adsense account.
Also, thanking you for adding the link of Infolinks review in your blog.
Have a great time.
Reji Stephenson
Hello,
Great Review of Infolinks, but I have some questions in my mind regarding Infolinks.
As I am looking for a secondary way to monetize my website, Does Infolinks do well with Adsense? And also, my majority traffic is Indian, will Infolinks pay good for Indian traffic?
Urgently want 2nd monetizing method as Adsense is not doing good with Indian traffic, also the CTR is low.
~ Rubel
Hi Rubel,
Welcome to this blog for the first time and good to hear that it is a good review of Infolinks. Regarding your query, I can say that you can use both Adsense and Infolinks at the same time in your website or blog. But, make sure that you place Ads from Infolinks in such a way that it should not block your Adsense advertisements. I was using both together in this blog but later continued only with Infolinks.
Hoping to hear from you again.
Have a great time blogging.
Cheers.
Reji Stephenson
Indeed a Great post.
But according to me, none of the adsense alternative can give the revenue as much as Adsense can give. I tried infolinks and I had worst experience with it. After having huge amount of traffic, I was able to make only 100-200$.
Because my blog was banned by Adsense. If this wasn’t happened then that traffic can surely make around $2k+.
That’s why infolinks is far away from Adsense in terms of generating revenue.
Well this was my honest review about Infolinks.
BTW Thanks for sharing it with us.
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Hi Brenda,
Welcome to this blog for the first time and thank you very much for sharing your experience of using Infolinks. I agree with you that Infolinks can generate that much income that can be generated using Adsense. But, if someone’s Adsense account is banned, bloggers and other website owners have to look for other options like the ‘Infolinks’in their websites.
Looking forward to see more insights in future too.
Have a great time blogging.
Keep sharing.
Cheers.
Reji Stephenson
Hi Reji,
Great post indeed. However, for me, Infolinks has not worked much. I keep on activating & deactivating Infolinks ads based on my needs. Now, Infolinks has added one more option for publishers to provide “inArticle” ads. (maybe you can update and include that in your post too). This looks decent and eye-catching. I have again enabled Infolinks for testing purpose. Let’s see how it goes. Thanks for sharing your reviews on Infolinks.
Best Regards,
Mohit Arora
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Hi Mohit,
Thanks for the visit as well as letting me know about the “In Article Ads”. Hoping to update that too very soon.
Have a great time blogging.
Best regards
Reji Stephenson