Doubling blog revenue as easy as popping a bubble
It’s been a while I shared an article about making money online, especially in monetizing and increasing blog income. Affiliate marketing was something very interesting and that’s where I spent most of my time when I’m online.
If you are a regular Bloggista.com follower, aside of course from the poorly written articles and total disregard of the correct use of the English language (can we vote to change the international language to Filipino? LOL), I always make sure that before I share something to my readers, I know it by heart and have tried it.
So now is the time to share to you another source of revenue stream for this blog and in my other websites.
If you are a regular “lurker” to this blog, you probably have noticed lately those double-underlined green links which pop a bubble containing some information related to the word or phrase when you hover your mouse.
These information bubbles contain “contextual ads” from Infolinks, a popular in-text advertising provider. I have been an Infolinks publisher for quiet sometime now. I saw it on my blogging friends’ sites, so I immediately signed up.
The sign-up process was quick indeed. But I did not care to spend even a little time activating it on this blog.
It took a comment from a dude named Oren Cohen on my Christmas 2009 Message post for me to take action and try installing Infolinks on Bloggista.com (later I found out that Oren Cohen is the Director for Strategic Alliances at Infolinks).
And I am so glad I did! After installing the tiny piece of codes, those weird-looking double-underlined green hyperlinks started to appear a few hours later. Actually, there is an option to change it to just single underline, and make it red or blue or brown -- but I preferred the color green, they looked cool to the eyes.
Seeing those hyperlinks in the posts really catch some worthwhile attention -- just like that picture of a man with a toilet bowl on his head at ThirdWorldGeek’s blog. This is probably one of the reasons why Infolinks is becoming the highest paying In-text advertising solution provider to many website/blogs owners.
I responded to Oren in his comment that I will try it for a month and see how it performs. And indeed it performed very well. The revenue even rivals that of Google Adsense, and in many occasions, even exceeding expectations.
In less than a month, my revenue on Bloggista.com in terms of “contextual ads” served doubled.
So if you are looking for additional revenue stream on your blog that works, you can try Infolinks as well. They pay monthly if you reach the minimum US$100 revenue each month. They pay via Paypal, or by check.
Oh, by the way, I am expecting my first Infolinks payment on the 15th of February, 2010. Hehe.
Want to know more about the Infolinks bubble? Check out the following wacky video compiled from different Infolinks publishers like me (too bad, I am camera shy so I did not sent them mine.)
Arnold @ Filipino... (2)
ivy (2)
jim (2)
Joliber Mapiles (2)
Stas (2)
ahne @ Best Penny... (1)
Anne-pressrelease... (1)
Archon Digital (1)
ark (1)
atty. soc padua (1)
Oks ang kita sa infolinks at nakailang beses na din akong kumita sa kanila. Thanks for reminding me kapatid e akoy hahabol sa contest nila pala. Sana manalo tayo! =)
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bloggista Replies:
January 30th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
hahahaha, I think I learned Infolinks from you brother. Habol ka pa, may panahon pa. hehe.
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Ambo Replies:
January 30th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
Sa akin ba? hahaha. Sana magkaroon na sila ng affiliate ano. Kelan kaya yun?
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Ambo Replies:
February 5th, 2010 at 8:00 am
teka nagdilang anghel pala ako dito sana manalo ka hahaha
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Yup I use Infolinks in one of my blogs. I’ve heard all around that it’s an awesome moneymaker.
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bloggista Replies:
January 31st, 2010 at 12:04 am
So are you going to share to us how it performed? any chance that you’ll gonna install it in your other blogs?
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I applied after reading the “toilet-bowl-on-a-man’s-head” post and I’m planning to use it on one of my other blogs.
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bloggista Replies:
January 31st, 2010 at 4:44 am
Hahaha, very nice bro. Goodluck, let’s see if it will do well on your blogs.
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I am also using infolinks too but the earning is very little. I got my vero first infolinks payment last December after around 9 months of implementing the ads.
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bloggista Replies:
January 31st, 2010 at 4:57 am
Just like the other ad provider, Infolinks will do well on sites/blogs which enjoy traffic from search engines. I installed it on a site with many traffic from local readers (PH) and its not as promising.
Also the double underlined format returns higher CTR than the regular, single-underlined format.
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I like infolinks a lot and just like any advertising platform, traffic form the US is the most profitable.
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bloggista Replies:
February 1st, 2010 at 6:09 am
Hi Noel, yeah, traffic from the US is still a very important factor to maximizing earnings with Infolinks. Well that means, “traffic” is still key…
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Thanks for this tip, I installed it on my website and we’ll see how it goes. I appreciate it.
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bloggista Replies:
February 1st, 2010 at 6:14 am
Hi Johnine, good luck on your Infolinks “venture”. traffic is still key to earnings but with the way you market your sites actively ( I see how you market articles and sites on Facebook and other social media), there’s no doubt you will be able to drive traffic and generate revenue. I just can’t publish the CTR, but they looked pretty good.
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Hi Bloggista.com!
Glad to hear you are enjoying the revenues! If there is anything I can help you with, feel free to contact me!
Best,
Oren and the infolinks team.
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bloggista Replies:
February 1st, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Thank you so much, Oren. Yeah, will do… More power!
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It’s been just a month that I installed infolinks on my personal blog, so I still cannot say that it will be effective.
But then, my blog do not have much traffic so I really do not expect to earn that big. However, I noticed that I am making more from them than Adsense.
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bloggista Replies:
February 1st, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Great to hear that you are earning with your blog, Angel. With your awesome content, you can always apply some SEO techniques to drive traffic to your blog…
Perhaps we can meet again for some beer just like the old times eh, and talk about SEO? Hehe.
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I have seen infolinks in some blogs I visit. But never paid attention to it. But after reading this post, will try signing up and see if it indeed works great as you said. Saw this post from Johnine bailey’s facebook wall btw. Thanks for sharing.
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bloggista Replies:
February 4th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
thanks for dropping by, Andre. Do send me some notes regarding your experience with infolinks once you tried it.
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Another great article bro. Ipunin mo lang lagi papasko ko ha para pag pumasyal akong Maynila, kita kits tayo. God bless bro!
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bloggista Replies:
February 4th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
hello bro! When are you planning to visit me. heheh. Tagal na plan yan ah.
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Congrats bro!!…How’s your Wii?, too bad I failed… heehe
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bloggista Replies:
February 4th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Yay! Just saw the announcement – one day late of the news. Hehehe. I won a Wii. Thanks bro! Are you the one who won the Nexus One?
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congrats on the Wii win, bai!
i had infolinks installed on my sports blog. join na ako next contest so i can also win a wiiiiiiiii
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bloggista Replies:
February 4th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Thanks bai!
Join kana next time. Hehe.
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Wow ang galing congrats kapatid sa Wii!
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bloggista Replies:
February 4th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Thank you brother! Hehe.
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may infolinks din ako, halos lahat ng blogs ko…. pero wala akong kita
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no bro.. but its ok… kahit papaano ok naman ang kita sa infolinks… Na receive mo na ba ang item? COngrats again..!!
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i couldn’t agree more with you guys that infolinks is indeed a money maker. been using this program for quite awhile already and rewards was enormous on top of my adsense earnings…
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Ang liit ng kinikta ko dito. Di umaabot ng $1/day. Napakalaki ng lamang ng adsense earning ko dito. Care to share any tips?
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