Infolinks review 2018, Make money blogging

As a blogger, you have probably thought about monetizing the blog at least once, maybe many times too. Monetizing a blog is not too difficult if your blog is packed up with quality content and decent traffic. However, blog monetization would be somehow difficult if it fails to reach the sufficient content and traffic criteria.

There are many methods to monetize a blog, however, placing the third-party advertisers' ads on the blog is the best as well as the easiest method. This is because you should not have to worry about the ads displayed on your blog as your ad provider takes full responsibility for it. The only thing you should do is to place those ads on your blog/website.

Without further ado, I am moving to the intended topic. Initially, I had no such intention to monetize this blog. Suddenly, I changed my mind and started thinking about monetizing options. I thought placing ads is the best way to monetize a blog and, for that purpose, I chose Infolinks as an advertising platform. I didn't do too much. I just submitted my blog to Infolinks and ultimately got approved in my first trial. Really, I am not lying!

 So, here, I will be explaining about everything Infolinks; approval guidelines, How to submit an application to Infolinks, integration into your blog, Ad types served by Infolinks, referral program, Infolinks payment methods, and Pros and Cons. If you are interested in Infolinks, keep reading this review of Infolinks till the end.

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Contents

1. Infolinks approval guidelines
2. How to submit an application to Infolinks
3. How to integrate Infolinks ads in your blog
4. Ad types served by Infolinks
5. Infolinks Referral Program
6. Infolinks Payment Methods
7. Pros and Cons of Infolinks
8. Verdict

Infolinks approval guidelines

Generally, It is not difficult to be approved by Infolinks. Having at least 10 to 12 blog posts is sufficient for your blog to be approved by Infolinks. Having said that, never forget to remember that the Infolinks is one of the best ad networks and requires to have many criteria to accept a blog or website. First of all, fill your blog with quality content. Otherwise, you will end up receiving such email from Infolinks.

This seems to be somehow painful, though you can submit the application again. The chances are you might lose the hope to resubmit your blog or your blog might be disapproved again. So, as a popular saying 'Prevention is better than cure' suggests, it is better to be fully prepared before submitting the first application. Here I am providing you with the useful guidelines that you can adopt on your blog so that you will be able to receive the email as appeared in the screenshot below.

If so, how to get your blog approved by Infolinks?

1. Publish at least 10 - 15 well-written blog posts. Be sure, these posts contain sufficient amount of media (Images or Videos or both), potent words as well as well-formattings.
2. Add real and clear static pages (About, Contact, Privacy policy etc.).
3. Make the navigation menu easily accessible from everywhere inside the blog. It is better to have a floating navigation menu like this blog have.
4. A good looking blog is one that attracts the visitor's attention at first sight. So, try to adopt a nice theme/template on your blog. Blog having professional taste has a higher probability to get accepted by Infolinks.

 If your blog fulfills the above eligibility criteria, that will be enough for you to get started with Infolinks. Additionally, your blog should not contain violence, negative, illegal contents. If you are sure your blog is eligible to start with Infolinks, then you can submit your blog to Infolinks. You can directly sign up from here.

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How to submit an application to Infolink?

It is an easy process. Go to Infolinks by using this link. Enter your blog address in the 'address field' shown in the first screen. Sign up with your email address or Facebook account to get started. Finally, submit your application. After you submit your application, they will review your blog. It takes about 2 business days to review your blog. In my case, it took 5 hours only. Once your blog gets approved, they will notify you shortly to your email address. If you haven't submitted your blog yet, you may use this link to continue with Infolinks.

How to integrate Infolinks ads in your blog?

I assume you have successfully signed up to Infolinks and your blog is still under review. In the meantime, you can integrate small piece JavaScript code into your blog. Infolinks has an extremely easy integration system. Whether you are on Blogger or WordPress, they provide Plugin (Gadget in case of Blogger) for both platforms. Adding respective service (Plugin or Gadget) to your blog is the only thing you have to do. You can do this by clicking on desired services on the 'under review' page of the Infolinks' dashboard. No matter if you are on Joomla, Drupal or Typepad, Infolinks has options for them too.

Ad types served by Infolinks

Infolinks serves a variety of ad types for the publishers. Intext ads might be a most exclusive ad type served by Infolinks. Note that Infolinks is an eCPM network, that is, they pay you on the basis of ad views (Impressions). They also have CPC based system. So, Infolinks pays you on the basis of both clicks and impressions.

In addition to Intext ads, Infolinks serves many other ads types. Here, I will explain every ad types, so that it would be easier for the beginners too.

i. Intext Ads

 It is a unique ad-format served by Infolinks. In this type, some of the texts of your blog are turned in to links, which on hover-over shows ads and you are paid for that ad view in return. You can customize how many links are to be displayed per page in your Infolinks dashboard. This is how Intext ads function:

ii. Infold Ads

 Infold ad is another unique ad format served by Infolinks. The logic behind Infold ad is simple. When a visitor visits your blog or blog page, a small pop-up appears at the bottom of the page. You have three options to Infold ad placement; left, middle and right. The official demo of Infold ad can be viewed in the screenshot below.

iii. Intag Ads

 Intag ads are similar to Intext ads but, the tags are generated by Infolinks itself, without linking your page texts. Note that Infolinks is a contextual ad network. All the tag clouds are related to the content of your blog. Official demo of Intag ads:

iv. Inframe Ads

 Inframe ads are the banner ads that appear on your blog page margins, in the left and right. This type of ads will be beneficial if you have unused space in your blog sidebars.

In addition to these ads, Infolinks also features Inscreen and Inarticle ad formats. Both of these ad formats are content friendly. Both of them uses small space on your website/blog to show related ads within your blog posts.

Infolinks Referral program

 Infolinks enables its publisher to participate in referral program as I have already posted about it in short in 'the 9 easy ways to load money on Payoneer MasterCard' post. For this purpose, Infolinks generates you a unique referral URL, which you can use to invite new bloggers to participate in Infolinks Publisher Program. After your readers/friends sign up to Infolinks using your referral link, you will earn 10% of their revenue for 12 months. Imagine if your referral is earning 500$ per month!

Here is the official tagline for Infolinks Referral program:

Refer new publishers to Infolinks and earn 10% of their revenue for 12 months.

 I am also a member of Infolinks Referral Program. The sign-up links provided in this article are my referral links. I will earn some commission (as described above) if you signup using my referral link. Note that your revenue won't be deducted (not at all) by using my referral links.

Infolinks payment methods

 Infolinks has a wide variety of payment methods. Payment can be received via:

• Paypal
• Bank Wire
• eCheck
• ACH (For US bank accounts)
• Payoneer

 If you are from Nepal, you can get your payments via Payoneer or by Direct Bank Transfer (Wire Transfer). There are no withdrawal fees for Payoneer and ACH. However, you have to accommodate  fees in other payment options as:

• eCheck - $6 + 2% conversion fees (Conversion fees to receive your revenue in local currency)
• Payal - $1+
• Bank Wire - $25 + conversion fees

If you are from Nepal, I recommend you to use Payoneer MasterCard. Using this way, you will be able to decrease some amount of payment fees.

Pros and Cons of Infolinks

Pros

1. Different ad formats
2. Easy Approval
3. Easy Integration
4. Easy Ad customization
5. Contextual Ads
6. No Ad space needed

Cons

1. Decrease blog load time (Not considerable)
2. Outdated UI
3. To much Intext ads may ruin visitor's interest

(Recommended to use not more than 6 - 7 Intext Ads)
Sometimes Infolinks ads may not be served on your blog. It might be because of the geography of visitors. Or, they may not have an advertisement related to your blog niche.

Verdict

 Infolinks is one of the best contextual ad networks available. Although I have now discontinued using Infolinks (for a while), I was impressed by the services they offer. If you have a well-built blog with decent traffic, you can earn a decent income from the Infolinks alone. In reference to various forums, Infolinks' eCPM rate starts from $1 to maximum of $20. But, the maximum eCPM I got was 3$. Isn't it good?

 If your blog is just a start-up, you can still monetize it with Infolinks ads. There is no any traffic requirements for getting approved by Infolinks. In my case, I got approved my blog generating as low as 50 pageviews per day.
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Have you ever used Infolinks to monetize your blog? Let me know it via the comment section below. Don't forget to share this Infolinks review 2018 via social media too.

Infolinks Review
Reviewed by Rajendra Sapkota
on December 23 2017
Rating: 4