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Infolinks Premium Publishers Guaranteed 2.5$ CPM Sucks

August 6, 2009 by Amit Bhawani 25 Comments

Publishers Revenue DownInfolinks is a InContent Link Ads network which is currently run by a lot of upcoming bloggers who are looking for some extra revenue apart from Google Adsense. These ads are shown on your content like normal links and when mouse over is taken place a small bubble is shown with few advertisements on them. When someone clicks on these you get paid per click. Now i had joined this network long time back and added the Ad Codes on some of my blogs, here are few stats of the same.

The following report shows a summary of my Infolinks advertisements for the period of January 2009 and during this period the total impressions were 3,87,755 with a total of 11,335 clicks which made a revenue of 853.5$ total.

Infolinks Revenue Reports

The average eCPM during that period was $2.17 and the for the first quarter this stayed somewhere around 2$ CPM overall and then it started declining. The maximum earning per click when averaged for a few months was around 7.5cents/click which is decent enough because you were not selling a large inventory on your website and this was something which is shown on the content section.

Becoming a Premium Publisher :
I came to know that Infolinks was offering a guaranteed eCPM of 2.5$+ if you would be sending in huge number of impressions every month and this is when i started discussing with them about this. Followed is the email they sent me in response.

Thank you for writing. What I’d like to do is upgrade your account to the status of premium publisher. With this upgraded account, your website will start getting ads from a variety of new advertisers that provide much higher paying ads.

In addition to this, I am upgrading your revenue share from 70% to 80%.

With these new feeds and the upgraded revenue share, your CPM will exceed the $2.50 you are excepting. The results should be reflected in your reports starting today, as we have already upgraded your account. This is a very exclusive status that we have upgraded your account to, as we rarely offer it to publishers. Your partnership is highly valued, and I look forward to helping you take advantage of this special offer.

Only for 2-3 days the CPM growed to these levels but again its back down to less than a $ and it shows that the team at infolinks is not staying on its words. Even when i had enquired regarding referrals i was told that i need to promote my links along with my account ID, but never i could see the referral statistics and no commissions ever. Seems like all the referrals and the promotions done for them was only a free publicity for them and iam quite sure we as publishers are being paid at a maximum of 25% revenue share, though these companies announce larger numbers.

The in-text ads vary according to the visitors IP. Therefore different countries get different ads and different CPM. During the first few days after the initial integration of Infolinks in your website we are optimizing the system to produce the best results. Google adv do not reward you with payment, they are the default ads produced by the system when testing or when there are no satisfying results for the visitor’s IP. I suppose that if you are accessing from India during the test period you will get google ads from time to time.

It is too early for me to guess an average CPM but within a few days we should be able to estimate your average earnings. I am sure you’ll be satisfied we usually get very good figures. What exactly do you mean by referral program? Are you interested in referring other website to Infolinks?

We do not have an affiliate program at the moment. However if you have leads you want to pass to me, leads for publishers that you know personally and can convince them join Infolinks, let me know and we will work out a compensation plan for you.

For every new publisher you bring that has over 1000000 net impressions we can offer 15% you of what he makes in the first 3 months.

Overall its not worth going on with Infolinks now because you are getting paid 2-3cents/click at the moment. Do you still continue running these advertisements? Would you feel happy in losing your valuable blog readers for a cent?

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Comments

  1. Amal Roy says

    August 6, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    I too used it before. Recently too stopped infolinks usage.

    Reply
  2. Nokia Theme says

    August 7, 2009 at 9:11 am

    Infolinks is workig fine for me easily make 30-45$ a day 🙂

    Regards

    James

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    • tejas patel says

      January 7, 2010 at 4:14 am

      plz tell me how can u earning lot per click in which category u used in ur site plz give me some tips about infolinks i daily got 70 to 80 visitors per day from google search but not getting revenue from infolinks plz mail me in my email address …thanks in advance

      Reply
    • ryan rodrigues says

      May 23, 2010 at 3:35 pm

      Hi,
      I myself have a blog and i get about 60-70visitors per day but i earn only about 20 cents per day from infolinks.Please help me in this regard.Please let me know how you managed to get 20-30$ per day from infolinks.Hoping to hear from you very soon.
      Thanks

      Reply
  3. mohan says

    August 7, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    infolinks is not working good for my site

    Reply
  4. Balaji | GuideToTech.com says

    August 8, 2009 at 1:49 am

    Amit info links is not too good..
    Even konetra too sucks mate…

    Reply
  5. abhishek says

    August 10, 2009 at 12:21 pm

    i think echotopic is the best network for good earnings wats say ? but they are not approving these days 😐

    Reply
  6. Nokia Themes says

    August 10, 2009 at 1:59 pm

    echotopic ? They rejected my application 🙁

    Regards

    Reply
  7. Rahul says

    August 11, 2009 at 7:21 pm

    I know that sucks… i will get half a dollar more if i don’t waste my visitors. for infolinks.

    i am removing infolinks with in one month.

    Reply
    • Rahul says

      August 15, 2009 at 4:57 am

      Hi, I earn many times 15 to 25 cents from infolinks click. I think they pay higher for the visitors coming from search engines. But no doubt google pay bit higher then this.
      Site which has lakhs of page views per month. Definitely get lot more un targeted visitors. Hence less earnings.

      Reply
  8. Crazy blogger says

    August 16, 2009 at 6:24 am

    infolinks really sucks i will pay less

    google adsense is best than any other

    Reply
  9. Swami says

    August 17, 2009 at 6:24 am

    Infolinks sucks great! Even Adsense not paying well nowadays

    Reply
  10. Harsh Agrawal says

    August 26, 2009 at 1:01 am

    I’m using infolinks and some how its working good for me..
    Though I have doubt about there referral program which they have approved some time back and in the last payment I got one extra 15$ for referral..Dam’n only 15$ after so many promotion.. I have almost 10 bloggers who confirmed that they signed up using my link and they are using it on there blog…but no sign of referral 🙁

    Reply
  11. analogstuff says

    September 10, 2009 at 5:15 pm

    I have been using info links for quite some time but i can say that it is not producing good results. Any other In text advertising network you refer amit?

    Reply
    • Amit Bhawani says

      September 11, 2009 at 1:29 am

      Iam currently out of most InContent Link Ads Networks, will run if i find any other good ones.

      Reply
  12. Anish K.S says

    January 11, 2010 at 11:35 am

    This is the first time hearing about infolinks premium.

    Reply
  13. goodgirl says

    January 29, 2010 at 6:25 pm

    i think info links is good for the websites which have huge traffic.it is also good to use if you want a little pocket money for less work.i think google adsense is very good

    Reply
  14. mensajes claro says

    April 8, 2010 at 11:02 pm

    Wow incredible info about infolinks premiun .

    Thanks for sharing this info.

    Reply
  15. Surya says

    May 26, 2010 at 8:48 am

    My earning is somtime 0.15$ per click and sometime 0.00$ i cant understand infolinks. Now m trying different ads..Just show which type of ads are best for me. Health related ads are good for my website.Website is Freemusicmasti.com

    Reply
  16. Abhik says

    November 2, 2010 at 10:54 am

    Amit,
    There’s no other alternative to Infolinks as the close competitor, i.e Kontera, pays much less than them.

    I guess it’s better if we talk to them about a fixed CPM deal.

    Reply
  17. Seo swarup says

    May 26, 2011 at 1:59 pm

    I dont think Infolinks pay better for search visitors . But one thing I must tell you, that if your site has good percent of traffic from USA,UK etc then you will be paid more. Otherwise eCpm is around $0.1. For example I got 10-15 (page view 500) clicks on one of my blog and I earn $0.01 daily which has most traffic from India.

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  18. Sameer says

    June 15, 2012 at 9:59 am

    Infolinks is not good if your content are really good and you want to retain your reader. In long term its waste of revenue. I used infolinks as Google does not approved adsense for my blog

    Reply
  19. Arun says

    June 3, 2013 at 12:16 pm

    Guys could you please suggest me a best Ad network thanks advance…. im waiting for your reply…….

    Reply
  20. Manish says

    October 5, 2015 at 10:21 am

    Hi Amit. I heard that google adsense also have premium publisher function. Is it true

    Reply

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