Infolinks the Kontera Killer ?

Recently I was just surfing Blogger looking at different blogs for design ideas and I came across a blog with some unique in line text ads. Much like Kontera when you move the mouse over the link. It pops up a small ad balloon with some add info. However these ads pop up in a slightly different but smoother way. When you move the mouse over the double line link. A small flat box pops up then a larger box with the info slides up from behind the smaller box. Definately an eye catcher I thought.

The name of the company who provides these neat little ads is Infolinks. After the ads sparked My interest I decided to Google them to see what came up before I signed up for their publisher program. What I read from other bloggers was very convincing. Infolinks seems to be loved by almost everyone and the amount they pay is almost on par with Adsense per click.

Ok so I signed up and added the code to one of My sites and here are the results for the first day on just one site:
As you can see from the screen shot I had a total of 403 impressions and got 24 clicks. Notice that My CTR (click through ratio ) was almost 6% at 5.96%. This is not bad at all considering that this was the first day I had it up and it was only on one of My sites. I made $2.24 from this test run which is about $0.10 per click. Now lets take a look at Kontera which I run on all My sites. Look at the screen shot to see what I made from Kontera for the same day ( June 8th 2009 ). Wow look at that I only made $1.78 for the same day from Kontera and you know whats the big bummer ? Kontera runs on all my sites even on this blog and it only made a lame $1.78 while Infolinks was only ran on one of My sites for that day and made me $2.24. I don't think I have to say anything else to kill Kontera. I think Kontera is killing them selves. With this kind of performance they will certainly start to loose their publisher base.

Neat and Note worthy things about Infolinks:

1.) Infolinks has a very unique attention grabbing inline text ad.
2.) They pay almost as good as Adsense per click ( based on my test run ).
3.)Very flexible to implement into your site. Like Kontera you can change the link color to match the links on your site.
4.) The big Kontera Killing feature is the integration wizard they provide to their publishers. This tool allows you to change the link color as well as change it from a double line link to a single line link which sends your CTR through the roof. In addtion to that you can choose from 15 different categories for your ads to make them more relevant to your site content (something Kontera does not have ) so you get more targeted ads on your site which makes people click more.

Overall I give Infolinks two thumbs up and I'm in the process now of adding Infolinks now to all My sites. Will do a follow up post once I get paid from Infolinks. Can't take a picture of a check though because they pay by Paypal and BankWire but no worries I will have a screen shot for you guys once the payment is posted to My Paypal account.

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