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Personally I don't think the Infolinks are obtrusive at all.  And I haven't noticed any decreases in the forum speed either.  Things are loading just as quickly for me.  I think it'll be good to see what type of stats come out of it after the trial.

I personally don't like infolinks, but there's a place for them here. I put them up on my site and they looked more like legit links than hover-overs, which made me not want to put REAL links on the site. Since this is a forum, though, people don't usually link to things with words (the links all start with www) and they're easier to avoid. Also, you're right, you don't charge us for being here, and every time I'm active in these forums, more people visit my site. So, if it keeps you in cheese burgers, by all means, put ads up. In fact, you could charge a membership fee AND put ads up, and I'd still buy you a burger!

I actually don't think the infolinks are bad at all. Of course they're a little annoying but I don't think it really matters what you put up on this forum. Unless it gets completely annoying then I'll keep coming back!

I know what the infolinks are and I just make sure not to scroll over them – no biggie. (Sorry I'm not making you any money Sam).

Thanks for the info on media.net. I didn't know about them and I just went over and signed up an account!

Just figured I would share my 2 cents. For the forum… sure, why not. If it helps to support the site, I am all for it. On the other hand, I hate it when I go to websites and scroll over an infolinks text as they are very annoying. Mainly because the links have nothing to do with the topic… just the word (out of context). I will not use such advertising on my personal blogs, but forums, that's a different story as people seem to come to forums for different reasons than they visit a website. Forums also bring a different type of people all together. For instance, this site is made up of people who run blogs, therefore, they understand the reasoning behind the whole infolinks and advertising to make money thing, but those how happen to visit my site (non-bloggers) may get annoyed quite quick and thus stop returning to my site. 

Sam, good idea for using it and I look forward to reading your review on it in the future to see how it did here. Please make a post topic letting us know it is live when you write it. 

I'd be curious to hear from you how infolinks, media.net, kontera, and adwords all compare. Personally, my google ads stink, and I haven't tried anything else. My traffic is inching upwards and I would like to monetize more of my visits without becoming a commercial whore.

Thoughts?

I just saw an infolink pop up in someone's signature box. Would be cool if we could set some parameters or areas that are off-limits to the infolinks.

moneycone said:

I've used Kontera on one of my other blogs.  I requested a payment in July, I received payment in Oct.  I ended up removing Kontera.

 

Sorry, Johnathan, have to call you out on this one.  The best would be to do what Google does – payout without me having to initiate a request or pay up promptly.  

Hi moneycone, 

We do pay publishers automatically. Our payout terms our Net 30, essentially meaning if you reach the $50 minimum payout threshold by the end of February for instance, you'll be paid during the first week of April. I'm not sure specifically what happened in your case, but if you want, I'd be happy to look into it for you. Usually when someone doesn't get paid automatically it's because they forgot to fill out either their payment method or their tax info.   

Financial Samurai said:

TightFistedMiser said:

I haven't tried Infolinks but I have used Kontera which is similar.  It took me a long time to reach the payout and I suspect some of the Kontera clicks would have otherwise been Adsense clicks.  I didn't have any complaints about the links though.  I'd consider trying Infolinks if people think it works better than Kontera.

I tried Kontera for 60 days, and was disappointed and took it off.  I'm willing to give anything a go for 60 days to get a true sample set, and see what the results are.  I won't hold back from my InfoLinks review on Yakezie.com, rest assured.

It's too bad about Kontera, b/c they are based right here in San Fran, and I always love to support local businesses.  Maybe they'll contact me with a better offer in the future, or improve their algos.  Who knows.  I'm open.

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