Per the recommendation of our friend Matt, I have now signed up with Infolinks as an affiliate. In general, their ads look a lot like the Kontera ads that show up on this blog on individual posts.
However, instead of adding it to this blog, I decided to use them on one of my other websites. I do a little bit of affiliate marketing over there, with some Commission Junction products, Adsense on each page, and Widget Bucks on a couple also; hey, I’m trying to be an internet marketer, right?
I’ve only added it to sixteen pages out of the almost 80 I have there, but it’s on the top 7 pages that get visited, so if it’s going to have its best chance of working, that will be it. Should be an interesting thing to follow over the next few months.
Mitch, wouldn’t it work on all your posts if you add it to your blog template? I use it on a couple of blogs and it’s pretty much the same as Kontera.
Oh, it probably would. I didn’t put it on the blog because I am running Kontera, and I’m thinking that’s a bit much, running those two things at the same time on the same pages. Now, because each page in separate on that website, I might put Kontera on some of the other pages, and then it would be an interesting test, for sure.
So, you are inserting the code before each post?
On the blog? no, it’s in the editor, main page. On that website, though, it’s on individual pages, and I prefer it that way.
OK, so it appears on the pages only and not the posts. That’s a good idea, as long as your pages get a lot of traffic.
Okay, we’re not together on this one. I don’t have Infolinks at all on this blog. On my Reviews website, I’ve only put it on 16 pages, because there’s no way to put it on the entire site all at once. That, plus I don’t want it on every single page just yet, as I want to test it on my most visited pages first. On the website, pages and posts are the same thing.
I knew it wasn’t on this blog, where I got confused was for some reason I misread your post and I though you were talking about one of your other blogs, and not your website. That was probably from all the tears that was blurring my vision from the thrashing I received in the last two chess games.
Yeah, that whipping could be it. I’d apologize, but I’m not sure we’re back to even yet.
Yea! Glad you’re trying it out. I hope you see the same level success I had with it as my earnings doubled when I switched from Kontera to Infolinks.
One thing I am not sure on, is if it’s okay to use both services on one site. It sounds like it’s okay with infolinks but Kontera has an exclusivity clause in their terms of service which say that you’re not allowed to use other in-text ad services. Unfortunately, it’s not clear enough for me to know the full restrictions of this.
Haha, the ads so far aren’t too well targeted. It’s kind of a downer but I think neither of the services really looks at “context” and instead, just looks for keywords it can use.
Yes, that seems to be the overall case. Still, it’s there, so we’ll see what happens with it all.
I’m going to give it a shot too Mitch. I need to diversify away from simply having Adsense as an option for my traffic. I’ll keep you posted!
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Cool Brandon; I hope it works better for you. I’ll be looking in.
Yeah, so it seems thus far Dennis. Still, we’ll see if anyone finds something they’re looking for.
Well, it is what it is, and I hope to see that it brings in at least some chunks of change.