The Best In-Text Ad Networks
ADVERTISEMENTSIn-Text Advertisements work by double underlining contextually relevant keywords on a web page and upon mouse-over opens a small bubble like box that displays the ad. Self Made Minds has done a comparison of the best In-Text Ad Networks like Kontera ContentLink, Chitika Linx and .
I have been using Kontera on this blog for many months now and it has been performing quite well. I also recently started experimenting with Chitika Linx on my new hardware review blog and hope it does better than Kontera.
I have not tried the Amazon Context Links yet but it may perform well this time of the year as people are in the ‘buying mode’ now with Christmas nearing. Also remember that Amazon only pays you a commission on any thing that is sold unlike Chitika and Kontera that pay you per click.
Chitika Linx and Amazon’s Context Links will perform better for product based sites, for other sites you can try Kontera or Intellitxt (if you can get accepted). Recently TribalFusion launched their own In-Text Ad program called EchoTopic (I haven’t tried it yet).
Before you try out any In-Text Advertisements, let me tell you that they increase page load time and your regular readers may find them annoying. So you may want to avoid showing it on your latest posts. I have removed Kontera and AdSense on posts that are in the Blogging, Making Money Online and WordPress categories using the method I mentioned here.
Do you use In-Text Advertisements? If so, which?
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Posted on December 14th, 2007 | Category: Make Money Online |
Techblissonline.com
December 14, 2007 at 2:21 pm
hmm…I have a relatively new site now…will try these after some time…
Cigar Jack
December 15, 2007 at 12:03 am
I’m considering adding Linx to my site as I already use Chitika’s eMiniMalls. I’m trying to see if it is possible to only put it on older content and off the main page and newer posts.
stylefrizz
December 15, 2007 at 5:45 am
John, how much kontera pays you per click ?
David Bradley
December 15, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Choosing an ad network is a challenge. As a user of the web, I hate having to sift through ad-loaded pages and so run Firefox with Adblock Plus and NoScript and these days rarely see ads. As a blogger, I want to make my blog not only useful but pay its way. It’s a tough call. At the moment, Sciencetext.com is ad spare (I use Landing Sites to render adsense ads only to visitors who arrive via the search engines) so if you go there direct you won’t get bombarded with ads.
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Madhur Kapoor
December 16, 2007 at 3:05 am
I use only Kontera but it doesnt perform to well.
Jagdu
December 18, 2007 at 1:58 am
Kontera has good ads but doesn’t pay very well unfortunately.
David Bradley
December 18, 2007 at 2:12 am
I think Kontera, like any of those other double-underline in-post systems that pay per click only work if you have stacks of traffic. If you haven’t, you’re only putting off potentially regular visitors who will undoubtedly be annoyed by the mini popups.
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Ronald
December 22, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Some IP not display the ads
Jon
January 15, 2008 at 2:30 am
I recommend avoiding Chitika at all costs, they’re not so great when it comes to paying out, they caused a huge stir in November 2005 where they literally refused to pay out most of their users and keep the profits themselves.
WoW
January 22, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Thanks for this info.
MTT
February 13, 2008 at 1:27 am
Are they better than adsense?
Jacker
July 3, 2008 at 7:35 pm
I posted this in the other story, but I wanted to warn some of you about Kontera and let you know why Vibrant Media is a much better option. No I don’t work for Vibrant. As a publisher, we need to look out for each as companies like Kontera are not.
We worked with Kontera for a couple years but recently found them to be one of the WORST partners we’ve EVER done business with. Their rates and inventory are tanking. We saw our payouts drop more than 60% in just a few months. The AD quality is really low and upset our readers with videos that auto-play and you cannot stop them. They even admitted to us they had to run Ford ads on our sites to pay us anything. We cover Entertainment news. What dummies.
The final straw. They increased our rev share when we threated to leave for IntelliTXT, but cut our inventory so we actually got paid less on more traffic. In the end they were vindictive refusing to let us out of our agreement when they could not fill our inventory nor gave us our last check because we dropped them.
We ended up switching to Vibrant Media and have seen a HUGE increase in revenues and good quality targeted ADs. Which has been good for our readers too.