The Best In-Text Ad Networks

In-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 Amazon.com Context Links.

chitika_linx 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.

kontera 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?

Posted on December 14th, 2007 | Category: Make Money Online |

11 Responses so far »

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.

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.