Basic Kontera, Infolinks and IntelliTXT review

I have recently tried all 3 services along with my AdSense to find the best paying ads, so I thought I would share my results as I lurk here often. I get pretty high traffic (around 30k unique visitors and 50-80k page loads daily). Here are my experiences with each of the 3:

General Comparison and Time Spent with Service

Kontera (2 Weeks):
Pros: Nice looking fairly relevant ads, quick loading
Cons: Very low paying, few options, poor tech support that never responded

Infolinks (4 Months):
Pros: Loads fast, but not quite as fast as Kontera, GREAT tech support that responds quickly and efficiently, decent paying, good options
Cons: Ugliest ads, fairly irrelevant ads

IntelliTXT (2 Weeks so far):
Pros: Fantastic looking ads, VERY relevant ads, fantastic pay, decent support
Cons: Fairly slow loading (slower than Kontera or Infolinks by a good amount)

Pay

Kontera: Pay during that time period was less than $10, Infolinks would pay 2-3x for the same amount of clicks, I left because they wouldn't respond about any of my questions or requests for link color changes, coupled with making hardly anything.
Infolinks: Pay was around $250 a month+, high amount of clicks per day and usually made around 5-$15 daily (would vary greatly per day)!
IntelliTXT: Low amount of clicks per day, maybe only 100 when I was getting 300+ on Infolinks, but the pay is still way higher. I average around $30 even up to $60 some days from just 100-200 clicks. For comparison on one of my lowest days with only 45 clicks, I made $25. This would usually require around 400+ clicks on Infolinks in a day. If the IntelliTXT ads loaded faster, I wouldn't really have a single issue with them.

I recommend Infolinks if you don't get enough visitors to qualify for Intellitxt. I cannot recommend Kontera as they were simply unresponsive and low paying. My current daily earnings with AdSense + IntelliTXT are roughly 80-$100. I'm not sure if I am allowed to link my site on here, but if I am and people wish to see it I will.

So there it is, feel free to ask questions. I'm not sure if I am allowed to share screenshots of my actual ad revenue from all 3 of these companies, if so I will gladly post them up if wanted.

 

Great reviews. I will try intelliTxt.

 

IntelliTXT is the best with no doubt, but it's hard to get accepted by Vibrant Media.

 

I've used all three and intellitxt is by far the best.

 

Nice review, Jakets. I tend to fully agree with you, though for the time being, I've tested only Kontera, but I'm wanted elsewhere

For a good laugh (forget about collegehumour - LOL), here's my current test experience with Kontera:

- net impressions 58,326
- CTR 3.62%
- clicks 2,110
- revenue $42.74
- eCPM $0.73

A whooping $42 revenue from 60K net impressions. Way to go!

 

I try on three of them before and i strongly agree your conclusion

 

in which of these we don't have to fill out tax form ? Tax for USA ? Tax for non-USA ?

infolinks is pain for webmasters from USA, They make you fax tax form and i am too lazy

thanx

 

All of them require it if you are in the US. Also, you can fill out the PDF and just email it, that's what I did for all 3.

 

i will do same, thanks !!

 

Hi Jake,

This is Jonathan from Kontera, thanks for your feedback on our ad network. I'm glad you found our ads fast loading, attractive, and relevant. These are all things we take pride in and constantly are working to improve. We believe our contextual technology to be the best algorithm in the industry, and back it up with an exclusive ad inventory from some of the biggest brand names in the world.

Regarding your other comments, if you ever need any help within Kontera, my personal e-mail is jonathanc@kontera and if I can't answer your question myself, I'll be happy to forward you to the relevant person.

In terms of publishers, we're always looking at ways to improve our compensation. We're currently offering new publishers a 70% revenue share, which is the best in the industry. We're also offering new publishers a $50 bonus if they have at least 25,000 U.S. page views during their first 30 days on the network and have recently lowered our minimum payout threshold from $100 to $50.

Concerning your account, if you want to personal message me the URL of your website, I'd gladly look at your account, and figure out what we could do to optimize your Kontera account. I'm sure there's something we could do for you

Thanks,

- Jonathan Cohen
Kontera Community Manager

 

Of coures, i am finding any text ads that pay good, hope i will use intellitxt for my campaign now.

 

not infolinks giving low cpc , i am getting .008$ per click , am thinking its very low as regard industry standard , if you consider its coming from any type of traffic , but they given better cpc on the time of signup , as time passes they are really reducing cpc

 

and i hope its really greater than Kontera , cpc