In-text advertising is a form of contextual advertising where specific keywords within the text of a web-page are matched with advertising and/or related information units. (via Wikipedia). It is one of the major income sources of many bloggers, most of them make money through this. Almost all the text ads are on pay per click basis (PPC) and the publisher gets paid for every click.
But I do agree, several people won’t love text in ads, but they still rule the blogosphere. Open your favorite blogs, and they will have them too! 😉
Not having Adsense Account? Maybe you can try this,
Chitika + Infolinks a Better Adsense Alternative
Below I mentioned some 15+ Best In-Text Advertising Programs with their minimum payment and payout details. Share & RT them if you like it.
#1 Infolinks
Each time your website visitors click on an Infolinks In Text ad, you get paid. The more clicks your In Text ads receive, the more revenue you earn.
Therefore, to maximize your earnings, it’s best to integrate Infolinks into all your viewed web pages – making certain to utilize all of the customization options available to you to optimize the user experience and maximize your revenues.
Minimum Payout : 50$
PayPal Options : Infolinks Prepaid Mastercard® (powered by Payoneer), PayPal, bank wire transfer or ACH.
#2 Kontera :
Kontera’s patented Story-Level Targeting delivers unmatched user-experience & results. Set up takes a minute. Easy-to-install plugins for popular blogging platforms such as Blogger, WordPress, Joomla & Drupal make implementation a breeze.
It enhances consumer experience through superior phrase relevance, driving increased user interaction, unparalleled campaign performance for advertisers, and substantial revenue for publishers.
Minimum Payout : 50$
PayPal Options : PayPal
#3 – MageNet
Trough MageNet you can sell text links on every page of your website and get ~ $1,000 / month from link sales.
You can set your own prices for links and each month you’ll receive automatic payments via PayPal (or other system) with no fees.
Selling links through MageNet is convenient and absolutely safe since it does NOT violate Google policy or any other policies or guidelines. You have complete control over each sold backlink.
Minimum Payout: $50
PayPal Options: PayPal, MoneyBookers, AlertPay, Payoneer, WebMoney or any other system, through which you can receive payment.
#4 Clicksor :
Clicksor offers webmasters the opportunity to earn more income by simply underlining a selection of clickable text (inline text links) or displaying targeted contextual ads (various sizes of banners) on their websites or blogs.
Clicksor offers a referral program which pays out 10% of whatever a referred publisher earns or whatever a referred advertiser spends, for up to one year.
Minimum Payout : 50$
PayPal Options : Check, PayPal or Account Credit.
#5 Text-in-ads :
They have thousands of active advertisers looking for relevant advertisements to drive targeted traffic to their websites.
Once your site is approved, it will be added to their marketplace within 48 hours, at which time it will be ready for purchase. Get paid instantly on the 1st of each month with no fees
Earn additional money by placing an affiliate link to TLA on your website.
Minimum Payout : 25$ for Text-Link-Ads Prepaid MasterCard®; No minimum for PayPal payments or TLA voucher payments.
PayPal Options : Check, PayPal, Payoneer, or TLA voucher.
#6 TNX :
You’ll be able to sell links on every page of your website, instead of just the main page. The price for each link is calculated automatically.
It mostly depends on Google PageRank (PR) of each page, website category, link popularity, and number of outbound links. Easy code installation using “copy-paste” method.
TNX comission is just 12.5% from each party involved in transaction.
Minimum Payout : 50$
PayPal Options : PayPal, Webmoney, Check or Wire Transfer.
#7 teliad :
At teliad you can offer your domains and URLs in many different languages.
A distinction is made between text links and post links on our marketplace.
Many different variants of text links can be offered, for example, placement in the content area, header, right column or footer.
Post links are deliberately targeted at blog users or news pages.
Minimum Payout : It depends.
PayPal Options : PayPal and Check.
#8 MyLinkPage :
At MyLinkPage.com – Text Link Page Advertising, you can easily Buy Links and Sell Links.
Don’t over-pay for text link ads, cut out the middle man at mylinkpage.
This one is different from other in text advertising.
Here you have to add to the cart and further move with the links and stuffs. Direct approach will be made I believe.
Minimum Payout : It depends.
PayPal Options :PayPal.
#9 TextLinkBrokers :
Your site’s value is determined by PageRank (PR), the number of Yahoo! Backlinks and other stats.
These stats are different for different versions of your URL.
Please check with and without the ‘www’
(Example: http://www.yoursite.com and http://yoursite.com) before submitting to find the most valuable version.
Minimum Payout : No min.
PayPal Options : PayPal.
#10 Linkadage :
You receive 50% of the prices you set for your web pages.
In addition, you are paid per text link and you decide how many text links you want to sell on a web page.
For example, if you have a quality web page and you decide you want to sell text links on it for $10 per month each and you sell 15 text links, the total revenue would be $150 per month and you would receive $75 per month.
Minimum Payout : It depends.
PayPal Options : PayPal and Check.
#11 Vibrant Media :
Vibrant In-Text Advertising is a 100% user-controlled.
It allows the user to view advertising only when they choose to move their mouse over a relevant word of interest.
Vibrant In-Text Ads allow some of the worlds’ most premium & recognized publishers to expand advertising real-estate and revenue without adding more clutter.
Minimum Payout : 50$
PayPal Options : Infolinks Prepaid Mastercard® (powered by Payoneer), PayPal, bank wire transfer or ACH.
#12 Be Context :
All payments are made bi-weekly, usually on the 1st and 15th of each month.
Please also note that payments are subject to a net 15 terms policy; which means that once you reach the minimum payout amount, you need to allow at least fifteen working days for payment to be issued.
It takes less than 3 minutes to get your first campaign set up with them.
Minimum Payout : 50$
PayPal Options : Infolinks Prepaid Mastercard® (powered by Payoneer), PayPal, bank wire transfer or ACH.
#13 Miva :
Their Publisher Network includes thousands of online properties ranging from search engines, content sites, parked domains and online directories. They have relationships with the industry’s most respected publishers, which enables us to monetize many kinds of traffic.
Bid Positions display the amount you need to bid in order to achieve a particular position. Statistics on click spend and average Cost-Per-Click ( CPC) are now displayed for each ad.
Minimum Payout : $25
PayPal Options : PayPal.
#14 BuiltinTEXT™ :
Payments are made on the 1st day of each month, or the first business day.
Please allow a minimum of five (5) business days for the funds to arrive before requesting tracking information on wire transfers, direct deposits or check payments.
All money paid is for transactions that occurred prior to the current month you are being paid on.
Minimum Payout : 25$
Payout Options : Checks, direct deposit (Quebec, Canada Only), bank wires or Paypal.
#15 Sin Text :
Sintext’s innovative in-text advertising products maximize your website’s profit potential and give you the highest payouts in the industry!
Sintext provides two types of in-text advertising solutions.
They are traditional in-text keyword ads and their unique MicroBanner™ logo ads.
Minimum Payout : 50$
PayPal Options : PayPal and Check.
#16 In Topic :
The amount of revenue your site generates depends on numerous factors.
But in general the more clicks you generate, the more revenue you will receive.
The factors that increase the amount of money you can make include the amount of traffic to your site, the frequency of keywords in your content and the profile of your site’s visitors.
Minimum Payout : 100$
PayPal Options : PayPal or Check.
#17 Triggit :
Triggit is a new in text advertising company it has managed to get into many bloggers and publishers attention.
Jeremy Shoemaker and TechCrunch have reviewed about it.
The best thing is, Triggit also allows you to add text content, youtube videos, Flikr pictures etc with no actual effort.
Though I haven’t seen Triggit on many sites, it is still good in terms of monetization.
Minimum Payout : It depends.
PayPal Options : PayPal or Check.
#18 – LinkWorth
LinkWorth is one of the web’s largest and most innovative marketing portals that caters to both Advertisers and Partners.
LinkWorth have a multitude of products and services to fill your every online marketing need.
LinkWorth’s products consist of text link ads, paid blog reviews, in-text links, in-content pay per click ads, rotating text ads, hosted content pages, article submission, directory submission and many more.
Minimum Payout : It depends.
PayPal Options : Check, PayPal, direct deposit and Wire.
#19 – AdBrite
They serve over 528 million impressions a day on over 111,700 sites.
OTEx (Open Targeting Exchange) ensures your ad will benefit from leading edge targeting.
Use standard ad units, like banners and text ads, or try our unique Full Page Ad. You can create up to 100 different variations of your ad. They will try each variation, and show your better-performing ads more often.
Minimum Payout : $5.00
PayPal Options : Check.
#20 – Affinity
Exclusive, customizable and easy to implement ad formats. Earn the largest piece of the pie – up to 95% revenue share. Proprietary technology. Work on a new age Publisher Console.
Smart commercial keyword highlights on your pages.
Precise targeting plus increased engagement drives up earnings and page value.
Non-intrusive. Perfect for content sites.
Minimum Payout : It depends.
PayPal Options : PayPal and Check.
#21 – Echotopic
EchoTopic automatically places text link advertisement within the content of your website.
Dynamically scanning the pages of your site, EchoTopic uncovers the most relevant topics and then matches them with advertisers.
EchoTopic’s publisher tools give you instant access to comprehensive reports and billing options. You can even use the white label application to sell text links directly on your own site
Minimum Payout : It depends
PayPal Options : All Major Payout Options.
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So which one you are using? Which one gives you more clicks? Please share it in the comments!
Infolinks is the best alternative to Adsense really, I use it on my blog, they pay
Great article but I have an addition…
If you have a WordPress Website then you should give WP Text2ad a try. The big difference with this in-text advertising tool is that you have 100% control of your Ad content and design and therefore control what and how you advertise without annoying your readers.
You can use any type of Video, MP3 Audio, images, banner ads, text or a combination through html.
Also, you can also use it to create interactive articles and insert the multimedia, quiz, survey whatever and help tell the article story without the reader ever having to leave the page following a link.
Its cheap, user friendly and the WordPress.org facebook page gives it a Like too…
Does anyone make any money from these in-text advertisers?
Great list Pradeep. I think you should have also listed LinkVehicle in the list. It’s yet another great text link ad network.
These all in-text advertisement decreases a site’s reputation. As this is literally go opposite to what the hyperlinks are actually meant for. It used Infolinks as well as Kontera in my website. My pageviews start decreasing as well as alexa rank increases.
These are not the part of Healthy Blogging!
Using Infolinks…
I am using infolinks since few days but cpc is very low as compare with adsense.. .any ways Very nice info Pradeep bro
my favorite site is infolinks. i am using infolinks and it is easy in integration.
in text links are annoying… I used infolinks for some time, but it was of no use
Can anybody suggest a banner ads service, I dont have adsense approved 🙁
INFOLINKS is a SCAM!!! I tried it and even introduced my fellow bloggers to it since we’re always exchanging information and we all left. My friends and I all noticed that our Alexa rankings went down and that we started earning less with Adsense. The click rate was pretty consistent with the other monetization programs I use yet Infolinks paid only pennies. When I finally got a hold of someone in their office and told them about this, they had the nerve to say that my blog has a low click through ratio. They literally pay pennies for each click and you’re lucky if you make the minimum to get paid every other month– try about once every 6 months. $50 in 6 months- that’s ridiculous!
Now here’s how they try to SCAM you. After you tell them that you’re going to drop their ads, they offer you about a 2 week free trial where they don’t take commission. So I tried it out and guess what my rates increased dramatically for a few weeks, but then went down again. I finally just said enough and ditched them. It’s the best thing I did.You also have to chase them for your money. I never have to chase Adsense for my money and they have millions of publishers in their network. See, what they do is give you a VERY SMALL percentage of the revenue and keep the rest, that’s why they will BEG you to stay with them because without our blogs, they won’t be able to make anything.
Also, once I left Infolinks, I noticed that my Adsense earnings started to increase and my Alexa rank went back up.
STOP INFOLINKS!
INFOLINKS IS A SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have visited other blogs that state the same.
infolink is bad in time to give you money sed same click is not legal and not give you money
wow thanks for this info,adsense is way better than all ads.
infolinks is better alternative of adsense.
Thanks for this list of In-Text Advertising Programs
Infolink is worst paid. I got just USD 12 for my 900 clicks.
Link ads gets max clicks , compared to Adsense , but eCPM is low , since all clicks dont convert . Its like 1.1 $ eCPM compared to 3.5 eCPM of Adsense
Which to use and which not .. m confused!!!
Personally i would say , if your site’s page views is less then 5K per day and that to not from US or UK , dont waste your time in intext advertisement. TRy adsenese . It has latge no of advertisers from all over the world
Do people really click on link ads? I am interested but I am just not sure if these kinds of ad work.
My most favorite site is text link ads, well my application till not accepted by text link ads, but listen that it is the best text link advertising network.
Hi S.Pradeep,
My name Jonathan and I’m the Community Manager at Kontera. Thanks for including us on your extensive list of In-Text advertising. As the leading In-Text ad network, with over 15,000 U.S. publishers and 140 million unique users per month, Kontera has a great deal to offer publishers of all shapes and sizes.
The reason Kontera is effective for so many different people is our Synapse Engine, an algorithm that rather than just scanning for keywords like other networks do, it can actually read your webpages for meaning. This advanced ability of Topical Targeting is how we provide the most relevant results for your ads, leading to higher CTR and better CPC.
Another advantage that Kontera offers it’s publishers is our exclusive ad inventory from such brand names as Microsoft, Chips Ahoy!, L’Oreal, HP, National Geographic, Kmart, Domino’s Pizza, and more. These premium, often Rich-Media ads are the most attractive to site visitors, offer the best possible CPC, and can only be found through the Kontera Network.
For any of the Hellbound Bloggers who would like to join us on the Kontera Network, we’re currently offering a 70% revenue share, which is the best rate in the industry. We’re also offering publishers a $50 bonus if they get at least 25,000 U.S. page views during their first thirty days on the network. In addition, we recently lowered our minimum payout threshold from $100 to $50, as S.Pradeep mentioned, meaning now Publishers are seeing their revenue as soon as in half the time.
Please let me know if you have any additional questions about Kontera.
Thanks,
– Jonathan Cohen
Kontera Community Manager
Jonathanc@kontera.com
Monetize your site with Kontera In-Text ads
LMAO, how is Intopic and Sintex above Adbrite? Actually, how are they on here at all? They are garbage services and not a company I would get involved with. Look at http://www.intopicmedia.org and you will see why.
Are you using there services? I started recently on my site. Please tell how good they are in payment.
i would say , stick to one or two , then move on to try the best . I am now getting good eCPM with Infolinks after having a chat with their support . Its less , but still better than having nothing like .30 4 eCPM
My vote is for the infolinks.
Fully agree with your points here. All the posts are fully informative and having very good themes. I love to visit your blog again and again its really increase my knowledge. Thanks for the awesome post.
I am using Google Adsense, is there any of this text advert site I can use with Adsense. I dont want any problem with my Google Adsense account.
You can try Kontera or Infolinks. But if you are earning good with Adsense then do not integrate any such website.. It will lower down your adsense.
Text link ads are really good for advertising purpose. Its also the awesome way to earn huge profit.
This is a really excellent read for me. Must admit that you are one of the best bloggers I ever saw. Thanks for posting this useful article.
Are there so many ad programs already? I only know Adbrite, Text-link-ads and infolinks among the list.
i think using text link ads may slow down the blog…….
Nice article…..
i was looking for something like this and ended up here…….
I started using Infolinks. Let’s see how it goes. I tried Kontera long time back but not much happy at that time.
I use adsense and infolinks 🙂
Hi, it’s Sarah from Infolinks. Thanks for doing a post on In Text advertising. It really is a great way to monetize a site. We’re thrilled to be included. We pride ourselves in our great product, top notch support and the fact that we guarantee the highest paying revenue share in the industry. As some of your readers mentioned, you can use Infolinks alongside another ad network, for example, Adsense. Also Infolinks does in fact pay for international traffic. If any of your readers would like more information I encourage them to contact us. Regards.
I am using infolinks for several months and I must say it works for me.Thanks for your post.
Infolinks and adsense do pretty well on my tumblr themes site but on some of my other sites with the same amount of traffic, not so good. Testing is the key 🙂
Its a good list. from the list currently me using infolinks. i am very much satisfied with the same. i have a premium account at infolinks. the major problem with infolinks is they are not giving a good ecpm. mine is below .5. they are very decent in paying and other. you can use infolinks with adsense. no problem.
Pradeep you can add two more ad networks to the list.
1, Affinity
2, Echotopic ( Its from Tribal Fusion and get an account is not easy).
Thanks for sharing them bro. Will add’em. Cheers! 🙂
Thanks :), Now 20 in the list. how to try all these 🙁
Wish we have lots of blogs… 😀
i am in the process of experimenting with infolinks , but all intext ads pay for US and Canada traffic …
Yes, Even most of the in-text advertising gives more credit to traffic from US and Canada.
Well i have not heard about most of them , only infolinks amd kontera . Recently saw AmitBhawani blog removed kontera and placed Infolinks . I think they are better .
What about adbrite, linkworth etc?
Oooh. I really forgot LinkWorth mate. I didn’t mention AdBrite (earlier) since I didn’t believe in their payout system. 🙂
I have been using adsense for long time and I think adsense is best. I started using adbrite, the space was blank for some time. when i checked with adbrite they told me that they don’t have ad to publish in India. Can u please suggest which is best to go along with adsense
i preffer infolink but feared to mix it with adsense…
I tried only Kontera and Infolinks out of this list and Infolinks is working fine for me 🙂
Infolinks can be used with Adsense as Anish is also using it.
Presently, I’m using Infolinks with Technoratimedia. Not got my adsense approved till now..so no alternative for banner ads 🙁
No, You can use infolinks with Adsense. The only thing to fear is it may lower down your adsense earning.