As you all know… We do our best to make sure our publishers are our top priority.

Due for high demand for early payments, we decided to change the current payment threshold.

Starting February, Infolinks is proud to offer the lowest payment threshold in the industry.

Update your selected form of payment today to Payoneer (Offering the new Infolinks prepaid MasterCard and automatic ACH) or PayPal and enjoy a lower payment threshold of $50.

The initial activation fee will be waived for you, if you sign up till March 31^st –  learn more here.

To support the new payment system, and due to the high processing fees involved with Bank wires and regular ACH – the Payment threshold for publishers choosing to continue to receive their payments via Bank Wire or regular ACH will be increased to $400. If your earnings are less than that threshold at the end of the month, these funds will be carried over to the next month.

To update your payment method, simply log on to your account on the Infolinks website. Go to the ‘My Account’ tab and click on the ‘edit’ button on the ‘Payment details’ section. Choose your preferred payment method and fill in the required details. Don’t forget to click on the ‘Save Changes’ button once you’re done.

For more information about Paypal or Payoneer Mastercard / automatic ACH, please go to our FAQs at http://www.infolinks.com/faq.html

It’s fast, secure and offers you the most flexibility with your money.

Apply Today! The initial activation fee will be waived for you, if you sign up till March 31^st.

Apply today and start getting your commissions faster while cutting the costs associated with other methods of payment.

To apply, simply log on to your account on the Infolinks website. Go to the ‘My Account’ tab and click on the ‘edit’ button on the ‘Payment details’ section. Click on the Payoneer Prepaid Mastercard® option,  sign up and the new card will be mailed to you.

Other benefits include:

Use everywhere MasterCard® is accepted – online and at any point of sale.

Withdraw cash from any ATM – in your local currency.

Your funds are secure. As long as the PIN stays uncompromised, your funds are MasterCard protected even if your card is lost or stolen. A replacement card will be mailed to you and the balance transferred.

No bank account needed.

Online access to your account, payments, balance and transaction history 24/7.

We are excited to offer you this new method to receive and manage your payments, making Infolinks a better place to do business.

For further questions about  Payoneer Mastercard, please go to the ”Payment and Earnings” section in the FAQs page.

Following our post below, we have tried again today to issue payment via PayPal to Indian Publishers  for  December 2009 earnings.

PayPal confirmed “all (mass) payments being issued to India through PayPal are being declined”.

We strive to make our publishers happy so even before PayPal’s fixes, we are the first ad-network to re-pay you.

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Feb 9, 2010

We have just completed issuing payments for December 2009.

However, the recent Infolinks Payment round was reversed by PayPal for Publishers in India.

We are aware of the problem and are working with PayPal to solve this issue as soon as possible.

The issue is related to a change in policy done by PayPal, which should not have affected  Infolinks payments.

In order for us to send your payment again, we need PayPal to fix a technical problem on their systems first, and we are waiting for the fix to be done. As soon as the problem will be resolved we will re-send all reversed payments.

In the meantime, we advise you, Indian publishers, not to change your payment method on our Publisher Center, but rather to wait until we pay again.

For any question please don’t hesitate to contact us at support@infolinks.com

Follow us on twitter or visit us on Facebook to get updated regarding this matter and more…

Wow, that was an extremely challenging job choosing the best Infolinks Review…

Techbusy.org crowned us as the king of new Contextual Ad arena;

Geekylocker.com shared their fantasy of making love with Infolinks online;

Thirdworldgeek.com found Infolinks’ In text ads to be hypnotic just like a random sight (appearance) of a toilet bowl sitting on a man’s head.

Rajputbrotherhood.com created some magnificent Infolinks wallpapers with our logo on it;

Yad4ever.com gave us a fascinating lecture about Infolinks in a Shakespearean-historical mood;

The decision was almost impossible, so we decided to give away another Google Nexus One and another Wii Console as extra prizes.

The challenge was judged by the Infolinks team who voted for their favorite articles…

And the winners are:

The first Nexus One goes to:

Pinoytutorial.com for his article “Infolinks Review: Why Choose Infolinks?”

The Second Nexus One goes to:

Quierocrearunblog.com for his Spanish article: “Infolinks”.

Wii consoles go to:

Bloggista.com for his article: “Doubling blog revenue as easy as popping a bubble”.

Rajputbrotherhood.com for the article: “Why you should use Infolinks on your blog/website”.

Computingunleashed.com for the article: “Infolinks Review – The best in-text Advertising Program”.

We want to thank all of the participants in the challenge for sharing your Infolinks experience with your readers, we appreciate your hard work and will continue to do our best to provide you the best service with the best revenues.

Meanwhile why don’t you become a fan of Infolinks on Facebook and be the first to know about our next Infolinks challenge.

On January 31^st deadline, the top review will win the new Google phone – Nexus One.

The second and third best reviews will win a Nintendo Wii console*.

Hurry up: the first 10 posts to be published will automatically win cool Infolinks mugs.

All you need to do is publish an original review about Infolinks, that includes this video embedded and a link to Infolinks, and then send us an email with a link to the post and your full details to blog@infolinks.com (please write ‘Nexus One’ in the subject).

Writing Guidelines

• Be original – the content must be yours!

• Share your experience as a publisher using Infolinks In Text ads: How did you hear about Infolinks? How fast was the integration? Did you receive good support? How happy are you with earnings? Did you get paid on time?

Enjoy it all the way!

*The challenge is open to websites worldwide and prizes will be sent to wherever you live. In case there’s a problem with shipment or customs,   you will get the monetary equivalent.

Thanks for the great video responses that you sent – they were hilarious and show a lot of creative energy.

They made us even more proud of our loyal family of publishers.

Watch what we cooked up here from the contest’s best videos: a demonstration of our double underlined links and In Text Bubble ads.

And the winners are:

The “Origami Bubble” by Shane Free from LA won the $1,000 grand prize:

All of the other entries which made it into the wacky video, won one of the great prizes like iPods, video cameras, Infolinks branded t-shirts and bags.

We got lots of funny, crazy and creative responses which are all can be watched here.

In order to give you a taste of the our favorite entries and to give them exposure we would like to note a few of them:

A mysterious animated video made by Daniel Joseph Taylor from NC:

We got lots of great “stop motion” videos. This really special one was made by Kimberly Hwang:

This great video highlighting Double was made by Cesar E. Alagar from Philippines:

This crazy video made by Pradeep Chauhan from India gave us a good laugh  :

Feel free to share the  final video with your friends and stay tuned!

A new fascinating challenge full of prizes and surprises is coming up soon….

Send a 10 seconds video of yourself with the word double or with a bubble, and win $1,000.

You can even capture it with your mobile phone and send right now…!

Need more details? See below!

Since our publishers are the family stars, why don’t you take part in our special video we are creating for the New Year?

All you need to do is film yourself looking at the camera, doing one of these two things:

Hold the attached sign with the word “Double” on it.

Or

Find a bubble of any kind and film yourself with it – let your imagination run wild.

The video should be up to 10 seconds and should be uploaded as a response to this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPo_veAmZhE

Please also send us your video file in AVI format, with your full details to:  Blog@infolinks.com.

We will then take your videos and cook them together to create a cool Double with a Bubble video!

Wonder what it is? Film, send, and find out soon!

Each one of you who will make it to the video will get a cool prize;  we are going to give away:

20 Infolinks T shirts,

20 Infolinks bags,

10 iPod nano 5th Generation,

10 Video cameras – Sony Webbie MHS  CM1  HD,

$1,000 in cash to the nicest entry!

The challenge starts on December 1^st 2009 and ends on January 1^st 2010.

So go ahead and film yourself with a “double” (the easy option) or with a bubble (the more creative option), win some cool prizes and be a New -Year star!

We wish you and your family happy holidays,

The Infolinks Team

By joining the Infolinks Challenge you agree to:

The Infolinks Double with a Bubble Challenge – Official Terms and Conditions.

We suggest that you add a clause to your FAQs or to your help section, which advises your visitors about what they see.

Feel free to post the below text on your website, blog or forum, or to refer your viewers to Infolinks.com – via mail or through a link on your FAQs.

Why do I see double underlined links?

These links are part of a pay per click advertising program called Infolinks. Infolinks uses the In Text method of advertising: they take my text and create links within it. If you hover your mouse over these double underline links, you will see a small dialog box containing advertisement related to the text marked. You can choose to either move the mouse away and go on with your browsing, or to press on the box and go to the ad which is relevant to our text. To learn more about Double Underline Link Ads – Click Here.

As demonstrated in the previous posts, you can easily optimize your in text ads with a few simple steps, and get a significant increase in earnings.   We would like to complete this series of optimization posts with additional and general action item which might be challenging but surely worthwhile.

The name of the game here is quiet obvious – content! Text content is particularly important for search engine placement. Without original text content, most search engines will be unable to match search terms to the content of a site. Your text is the hidden treasure of your website, which can carry in-text ads without taking any extra space from your website.

By adding more quality content which is interesting and relevant, you will attract more traffic and improve the CPC of your ads.  Having up-to-date, relevant, and fresh content will increase impressions, CPC, and CTR.

Another useful strategy is to devote each distinct website to a specific subject. A collection of more focused websites will be more targeted, improve your SEO and increase your monetization chances. With Infolinks, it is extremely easy to manage a multiple website account. By adding more websites to your Infolinks account you create more impressions, more ads and more earnings. Just sign in to the Infolinks member center and press the “add website” button. It looks like this:

We hope you found this series of optimization tips useful. Feel free to contact us at Support@infolinks.com with any further questions you may have or with any other optimization tips and improvement advices you would like to share with our expending family of publishers.

Stay tuned! Next week we are going to announce the next Infolinks Challenge!