I have designed my sites using the Affiliate Marketing method as my primary mode of making money. Common wisdom is that one should not blend too many confusing decisions for the readership of your sites to make; instead encourage them to make one decision: to click on and purchase through your designated affiliate. This line of thinking would also suggest that contextual advertising will dilute your main message, and take your readers off track.

On the other hand, there is a lot to say about contextual advertising:

  • Indeed, it represents another stream of income separate from the affiliate methodology.
  • Additionally, your readers do not have to purchase anything. When they click on your ad, you make money.

If you are like me, you will find that as your site matures you can divide the pages and posts into two broad classifications:

  • "Main Pages", representing by your most visited and primary content pages, and
  • Numerous secondary "Supporting Posts" with incredible beautiful content.

I like to use Infolinks Contextual Ads on some - but not all - of my supporting posts. One of my main methods of secondary post generation is to use Google Alerts to bring relevant "news" about my niche. This is great fodder for content generation and these are the posts on which I will place Infolinks contextual ads.

I never place contextual ads on my primary pages, which are designed to provide key content culminating with a specific affiliate-related call to action.

Why do I Iike Infolinks and not other types of contextual ads such as Google Adsense? My reasons are threefold:

  • Infolinks is a highly unobtrusive contextual advertising style, with ads that blend ight into your text in a highly readable fashion, and
  • They are easy to apply to and get approval for.
  • Some ad agencies, such ad Google Adsense, can be very capricious and drop you like a hot potato for no apparent reason.


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catlady13 Premium
Hi Mike, I would love more info on how to do this. I'm building my first website now and would be interested in this approach.

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mjdimarco Premium
Hi Liz, It's very easy to use. I'll send you a PM.
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catlady13 Premium
thanks, my website is in its infancy, so I may not get to this quite yet, but thank you for the info. I will look it over and let you know.
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JoaquinD Premium
Hey Mike,

I like this whole idea of unobtrusive ads that I will consider for my Classic Car site.

Thank you for this great training & cheers, Joaquin
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mjdimarco Premium
Let me know if I can help!
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JoaquinD Premium
Yes, you have any additional infolinks information that I can look at.

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mjdimarco Premium
I'll send you a PM
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Yenomym Premium
Hi, I like your tutorial mj. I agree with you that there are different ways to add success to your site. Thanks for sharing.
Marilyn
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mjdimarco Premium
Thank you Marilyn. Best wishes for your success.
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TanjaRita Premium
I have never heard of infolinks. I am interested to learn more about this.
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mjdimarco Premium
Infolinks is a leading ppc (pay-per-click) advertising solution for web site and blog publishers. They specialize in unobtrusive ads. I send you a PM with more info.
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TanjaRita Premium
Ok thanks!. I will take a look at your PM later this morning.
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DaveHuntsman Premium
Great info! However I don't understand where and how to get "Info-Links? I certainly appreciate your thought process however.
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mjdimarco Premium
Hi Dave, Thanks for reading. Infolinks is a leading ppc advertising solution. I'll send you a PM with additional information.
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dunbar Premium
Hi Mj could you send it to me too, I am still having trouble keeping up with all this new(to me) stuff, but would like to bookmark it so I can have it when i need it, btw great lesson,although I am hoping to use this in due time cheers and thanks Helen
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mjdimarco Premium
Just sent you a PM with the information.
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t hanks
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