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I recently became a member as a publisher of infolinks, a cool way to place unobtrusive Contextual ads on any website, and earn money from your valuable website content.

I am extremely happy with them. After trying Kontera, Adbright and others on my main website, which has overhalf a million pages, they are the only other contextual advertising I’ve used that users seem to respond to, other than the Gold standard, Google Adsense.

With extremely simple ways to control how the information windows containing ads appear, InfoLinks ease of integration is top notch. They’ve thoughtfully included a simply HTML tag to enable targeting so that me (the publisher) can control where the double underline link which spawns the InfoLink window appears. With nice animation, easy to use features, visual appeal, and features like having your payment sent to PayPal, I think that InfoLink’s popularity is going to grow.

I saw the ads via some blog, and I became instantly interested. After seeing the features, I thought I’d try them out, and after a day, I can say that I’ve already generated revenue that I wouldn’t have had otherwise, and they pay more than Kontera on average. (From what I’ve observed) They also seem to pick up way more key words and key phrases than the competitors, so I’m ditching Kontera for my blog, and installing InfoLinks!@

Kudos to InfoLinks! Highly recommended.

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As of 01/16/2009 Adobe .pdf Adobe closed their site for ad-enabling .pdf files to integrate ads inside the .pdfs. I for one thought that .pdf advertising would be great for the internet why? I’ve got about a million .pdf files created through my business directory. Of course after learning that I couldn’t easily integrate the ads from Adobe and Yahoo Publisher Network, I never joined the program.

However, tons of my .pdfs are indexed by the search engines, and it bugs me that I can’t make any money from that except for the backlink to the site inside the aforementioned .pdf. I do have some other static and very popular .pdfs I would very much like to ad-enable, but no publisher allows it, and Adobe probably isn’t interested any more due to the failure of their bbeta with Yahoo.

They probably didn’t get a whole lot of interest, simply because nobody wants to ad-enable a file one at a time to a web interface. They should simply create some type of limited API for the .pdf to insert the ad into pre-defined blocks. Hell, they could at least have an ad block inside their reader they could make money with through the .pdf publisher, and have a back end sign up for the ad program through Acrobat itself.

There’s tons of doable ways to make ads work inside .pdfs. But primarily, they need to have a way for developers to embed context-sensitive advertising inside .pdfs through programming tools like Crystal Reports, etc…

They should have went into business with Google instead of Yahoo, and they should definitely exploit their widespread .pdf format for advertising purposes. Every day they don’t have ads inside every single .pdf on the web is a day they lose money.

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