InfoLinks has recently announced a few new types of revenue generating ads. I have opted out of most of them because they have, by and large, been pretty worthless forme personally.
- First was the "related links" bars, which was fine, amounted to a long bar of links that would be related to your content. Didn't generate much.
- Next was the "Tag Cloud", which I thought about trying, but it only came in one leaderboard style shape. No dice, if I was going to use it, it would have been a small column ad.
Well, now they released an ad that shows up only for folks that come from search engines (taking a page from Chitika's book I guess) and it lays over your content at the bottom of the browser. There are two huge areas of concern for this.
- It is opt out, everyone is automatically opted in, not cool.
- It could violate terms of service for users of Google AdSense by laying over the top of the ads if they are in that lower area of the first fold of your page.
I am not sure about most of you, but AdSense generates a heck of a lot more money for me than InfoLinks does, so if you are an AdSense publisher, I recommend going to your InfoLinks control panel and opting out until we get some official word of compliance (or lack of it) from Google.
I like InfoLinks, personally, it's a nice little bit of beer money each month, so I don't want to sound like I am trashing it, because I am not, just want people to be aware. I am not a fan of being automatically opted in to stuff, I'd prefer to opt in by personal decision.
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Hi, I'm Tammy from Infolinks and I wanted to respond to your concerns about using Infolinks and AdSense on the same site.
Our new Search Widget is no different from other dynamic browser elements, like Meebo or Wibiya toolbars, which are not considered to breach the Google AdSense terms and conditions. From initial experience, over 1,000 publishers did not report any issues. Infolinks is one of the world's leading contextual advertising networks and we work hard to provide publishers with additional monetization tools and of course we would never act to breach other networks terms, especially not Google's. If you have any concerns, please contact us. support(at)infolinks.com.
Fair enough, thanks for the input. Still, automatically opting people IN is just plain wrong.
Add that to the fact we still have no official word from AdSense's policy police, my recommendation of opting out until such a time as we do hear from them, still stands as, I believe, good advice.
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