There are quite a few ways to monetize your sites nowadays. Adsense and Yahoo Publishers network to name two of the main ad networks out there. Today, I’m going to be comparing two In-Text/Contextual Advertising programs: Infolinks and Kontera.

They are both comapnies which give you the power to advrtise through the text on your website. A code that you insert at the bottom of your site will pretty much crawl your site looking for keywords. Once it finds those keywords it will turn them into a link that when hovered over will produce a small popup. You make money when either that link is clicked or the advertisement is clicked.

I ran Kontera for awhile and realized that I was making pittances. I didn’t know whether or not it was worth it to run ths ads bcause after all – I am somewhat tricking my readers into clicking these links that are actually ads. But I’m all about my paper on the site I ran it on so it didn’t matter. Here are the earnings I made with Kontera over February.

Kontera Feb 1- Feb 27

As you can see, it was a little less than satisfying. I won’t reveal the number of clicks, but they were respectable and I still wasn’t earning at least a dollar a day. That’s unacceptable.

So I was on somones site, unfortunately I forgot who it was, and I hovered over one of their links and got a tiny popup from a diffrent In-Text Advertiser: Infolinks. In my search to find somone who pays more I decided to check it out.

I recently joined Infolinks and easily integrated it into my website by pasting a simple code. Support on the site is top notch I sent them a message asking a question and got a response very quickly.

I signed up and got approved within a day, and removed Kontera from the site with a swiftness. They also allow you to change the color of your Content Link like Kontera but they also let you choose whether it should be underlined once or twice. This can make the difference and I think having only one underline adds to clickablity.

Infolinks was a hit from the first day. I’ve been running it on the exact same site and I’ve made twice as much as I made on Kontera all February in 10 days. Not only that, but I’ve made half as much as I’ve made using Kontera for the last 5 months, in just over a week. Here is a screenshot from my Infolinks account:

Infolinks March 1-March 10

As you can tell, if you’re trying to make money with In-Text advertising you’re better off with Infolinks. I feel Kontera has been holding out and ripping me off for the most part and that’s just being honest. I also feel that their users are starting to see that there is better money elsewhere.

I’m glad I made the switch to Infolinks. Kontera just wasn’t working.  They were paying me over 50% less than what Infolinks offers .

If you are currently with Kontera – they are holding out on you. I’ve come to a conclusion that Kontera makes you pennies – Infolinks makes you dollars. It’s a no brainer.

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