Preview In Text Ads on Your Site How would In Text ads look like on your very own website? You can now get a quick and easy preview by visiting AdsOnYourSite.com. All you have to do there is enter your URL and a preview of your website with In Text ads will appear. How Much Can I Earn with In Text Ads on My Site This nice preview tool at AdsOnYourSite also gives you a rough estimation of your potential monthly earnings from In Text ads. Disclosure: the AdsOnYourSite website is free to use but it’s operated by Infolinks. The AdsOnYourSite Widget AdsOnYourSite.com also offers a free widget...

Facebook still doesn’t run In-Text ads. Maybe with time. But the In-Text advertising network that I’m part of does use Facebook to keep in touch with our partners and it’s just fantastic. So much was already written about utilizing social media to connect with customers that I thought there’s not much to learn anymore. I was wrong. Firsthand experience teaches priceless lessons. Here are two recent examples. First Example: New Feature The product design map is planned according to internal initiatives that take into consideration feedback from customers. But getting this feedback is not...

When Visitors Complain about In Text Ads Sometimes, despite their subtleness and clear advantages to the website’s publisher, visitors do complain about the introduction of in-text ads to a website. Most often, this would happen when a website has a community of regular visitors who are not always open to changes. From my experience, the number of complaints will be very low when compared to the number of visitors and they will also disappear after a short while. Nonetheless, sometimes a publisher must deal with the complaints. This is especially true when the complaining visitor is an important...

The Potential of In Text Advertising and the Mobile Web The combination of In Text advertising and the Mobile Web holds great potential for advertisers. The combination of actual permission from potential customers to view an advertisement that is related to a specific term together with the location and additional information from the mobile network can yield high conversion rates for advertisers. Especially local advertisers. This combination also promises publishers high revenues from their websites. But some changes are still required. The Mobile Web Experience and In Text Ads The Web is going...

In Text Ads on your Site are Not merely a Money Machine After a few months with in text ads on your website, you will probably get used to the monthly payments and accumulated revenues. At this stage, many publishers tend to think of in text ads as a simple money machine. The integration was easy and after some optimization they require no maintenance. But then, sometimes the average earnings change – either up or down – and publishers hurry to ask: What happened? Before rushing into conclusions, it’s better to understand the industry in which in text ads networks operate. This can shed some...

Technology Background In order to better understand in text advertising, some technological background is required. I’m not going to dive into the code structure here; in fact, I’m not the right person to attempt that… but I do think that some basic clarification could help when considering this method. Also, the leading in text ads networks utilize different technology and the following analysis may be helpful in choosing the right partner for you. The Magic a Little JavaScript Does When you integrate in text ads on your website, all you’re required to do is insert a little piece of JavaScript...

I Want In Text Ads on my Site OK. I’m convinced. I understand the advantages and I want to tap into this hidden treasure. I want in text ads on my site. But… You know, there are so many hurdles to jump over, so many people objecting the idea – my visitors and community members, the authors and editors, the website’s designer and the IT team, even my boss… I need some answers. Well, here they come. Visitors and Community Members Always have Something to Say “Dear Webmaster, Why do I see double underline links? What’s with the new in text ads? I loved your website the way it was before!” Dear...

Now that I’ve already come up with the top ten reasons not to use in-text ads and given you ammunition against your in-text-loving friends, you might even find yourself joining them… So, to be on the safe side, I thought it may be useful for you to also browse through the top 10 advantages and benefits of in text ads on your site. The issues are quite similar, but the angle of view is reversed. I also deal with most of these issues elsewhere in more depth, but this list can prove to be handy as an overview. 1. In Text Ads are Quiet When reading content online, we all got used to reading continuously...

Choosing the Best In Text Ads Network And the winner for Best In Text Ads Network is… well, did you really expect that it’s going to be that simple? While I can easily name the nominees for Best In Text Ads Network Award, and also detail the important aspects to compare before choosing your provider, there’s only one name I can put on the winners pedestal with sound mind, but I can’t just write it here. As I stated before, I work at Infolinks and this is where I collected my experience about in text advertising. If I would have recommended a single company, it would have been Infolinks,...

In Text Ads Go Display In the early days of in text advertising, the double underline links opened bubbles with textual ads, mostly alongside a thumbnail image of the ad’s landing page as a preview. With time, the text ads gave way to more and more graphic ads that looked more like the regular banners. This trend is still in progress and the balance between text ads and banner ads is not fixed yet. In fact, this balance is very different between markets and it seems that in markets where in text ads are still relatively new, text ads still hold the reigns, while in more mature markets, banners...