How to Monetize your Website using Infolinks

Note: This post has been updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness.

What is Infolinks?

Infolinks is an advertising platform for both advertisers and publishers. Founded in 2007, Infolinks allows website owners to monetize their website using Infolinks’s ad combination of InFold, InTag, InText, InFrame and InArticle. Getting the ads set up is as simple as placing the ads.txt file on your website.

What is great about Infolinks is that Infolinks conforms to the Google Adsense guidelines and Infolinks and Google Adsense work together perfectly. Also, what is great about Infolinks is that there is no minimum requirements for page views or visitors to qualify.

Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through to make a purchase.

How to sign up with Infolinks?

You can sign up for an Infolinks account by clicking on this referral link.

Infolinks claims that all applications will be reviewed within 48 hours. 

Putting in an application is as simple as providing Infolinks with a link to your website and completing the contact details.

READ: How to Make Money with WordPress Affiliate Program

What are the Requirements for an Infolinks Account?

Any publisher is eligible to qualify with Infolinks. There is no minimum requirements for page views or visitors which makes it great for bloggers who are starting out. 

As a general rule of thumb, Infolinks do not allow content that are negative, illegal or offensive in any manner such as messages that promote violence, discrimination, spamming or pornography- related content. 

However, do note that Infolinks reserves the right to decline any application. For full details, please refer to the Eligibility Criteria article by Infolinks.

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Interested Readers can Sign up with Infolinks using my referral link.

I will earn 10% of your revenue for the first 12 months at no cost to you.

How do I Earn Money with Infolinks?

You can earn with Infolinks by visitor views, clicks and engagement with the Infolink ads. I could not find any detailed information provided by Infolinks on how the earnings are calculated. This could be because each advertiser has different rates for clicks, impressions and conversions.

However, Infolinks has stated that all publishers will receive 65% of the revenue share. Also, publishers will only receive a payout when their earnings exceed the minimum payout threshold. The minimum amount is $50 for Paypal, eCheck, ACH (only for US bank accounts) and Payoneer. $100 for Bank wire transfer.

For full details, you can refer to the article by Infolinks on payments.

How to Integrate Infolinks ads on your Website?

Once your application with Infolinks is approved, you will receive an email with your login details where you are able to locate your integration script code to be placed in your website for the Infolinks ads to start showing.

Copy and paste the unique Infolinks script into your website’s HTML, before the </body> HTML tag. Infolinks has provided simple to follow manual steps on how to integrate their script into your website for the various blogging platforms such as WordPress, Blogger, Weebly and Wix.

Some of the platforms have plugins that you can use instead of doing the manual insertion. For example, I used the “Simple ads.txts” plugin by WordPress to integrate the script for my blog. Detailed instructions can be found here.

My thoughts on Infolinks ~24 months after being on board

Infolinks program is a good to have Ad program to complement whatever blog monetization efforts you may have. As you can see from my blog stats, I have a stable viewership of a few thousands every month (not a lot I know, but getting there :]) but the earnings that I have from viewership is more of a pittance. The majority of my earnings are actually from referrals.

I am not sure of Infolinks business model, but it may be because there are trying to reward their users for new sign up to capture more market share, instead of rewarding their users with more ad revenue.

I recently cashed out my earnings via Paypal after hitting the payments threshold which is really convenient. All you have to do is to update your “Payment Settings” under “Account” and Infolinks will attempt payout on the 14th of the month.

Do give this a go and see if this blog monetization program is right for you.

Interested Readers can Sign up with Infolinks using my referral link.

Please feel free to drop me a message if you have any questions! I look forward to hearing from you.

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