Website as Storefront So much has been said and written about the importance of your website for your business efforts that it seems pointless. Yes, we all know by now that optimizing your landing page with multi-variant tests to reach the highest conversion rate is basics for online marketing ans sales. But do we actually execute? I have to admit that at least in my case, it took some time. In fact, it took a lot of time to realize that our company’s website is actually our storefront and it can’t be neglected. And I’m talking about an Internet company so I can imagine that...

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...

Online Publishers get Together to Create a Wacky Video What do thousands of publishers who work with the same in text ads network have in common? Well, first, they all operate a website, but that’s a given that derives from the very definition of an online publisher. What else? Usually not much. But lately, several publishers from around the world came together to create a wacky video, as part of an initiative for the New Year from Infolinks. Double With A Bubble If you’ve been following this blog, you know that I don’t often mention Infolinks here, as I’m trying to avoid...

Not Only English – In Text Ads in Many Languages including Spanish, French and German Surprisingly, online publishers often ask if they can monetize their websites with in-text ads even if their content is not in English. The answer is that, of course, yes they can. The question sounds surprising because most monetization schemes, including Google AdSense and other AdSense alternatives, do work in many languages. But, in fact, it is a very legitimate question. In text ads are closely tight to the actual text and as such, the provider needs to be able to analyze content in each supported language....

Big Websites Earn More As most new online advertising methods pave their way in their early days, so did in text advertising started as a monetization solution for smaller websites and blogs. But with time, more and more big and reputable websites added in text ads to their monetizing plans and we get this question quite often – do in text ads work well for the big guys? And the answer is yes, big time. In text ads serve as an AdSense supplement and adding 30% to 60% on top of your AdSense earnings is a big incentive to giving in text ads a chance. I’ve recently had the opportunity and privilege...

Thank you for asking. I received several requests to demonstrate double underline in text ads on my website. Since this is my personal professional blog and it doesn’t have commercial aspirations, I didn’t add any ads to it. But for the sake of clarifying how in text ads actually work, I’m happy to to integrate them. On the top left corner of the website you can see a link to a page called In Text Ads Example – it leads to a page with a complete book summary of Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (the book summary is courtesy of the Free-Book-Summary.com website). I integrated Infolinks...

I generally dislike discussions about new media that start with ancient history and the development of the Internet in the sixties of the previous century. We’re beyond that. This said, however, there is much to learn from comparisons of the Internet’s evolvement with other media in the past. And if there is one clear pattern that repeated itself in all media – newspapers, radio, broadcast television, cable television, and lately the Internet – it is the penetration of advertising. We’ve seen it before – from a medium where ads are not allowed, to organizations who protest against the...