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April 21, 2007

Contextual Links

I recently found a website with the best website idea I have come across in a long time. Webmasters with commercial websites are always looking for new ways to make money on their websites. Until now, unless you sold a great product or service, your best money making option is Google Adsense. In case you don't know, Google Adsense ads are those annoying ads in boxes you see all over the web on commercial websites.

Unfortunately, Adsense is pretty much the only game in town so they have been abusing their publishers by consistently lowering payouts. This makes the stockholders of Google happy because of record profits, but Google is not building any goodwill among their publishers. What goes around, comes around, Google.

This new website idea I found, LinkXL, is a new concept in website advertising that is going to turn website advertising and marketing upside down with their contextual link ads. This spunky website will not be making Google and their fat cat stock holders very happy.

LinkXL offers webmasters an automated way to sell monthly contextual links on their current web pages. The unique thing about LinkXL's concept is that standard HTML text links are created for advertisers, on the fly, in the middle of current content of established web pages. Their slogan is "Real Links, Real Time" - clever.

This new concept helps both the publisher and the advertiser tremendously. Since the advertiser gets a regular HTML contextual link, they will get click through traffic in addition to page popularity. Publishers, on the other hand, are able to sell contextual links on their entire website.

This means, if your website has 1,000 pages and you sell an average of one contextual link ad on each page for $10 per month, you will make $6,000 extra per month (LinkXL does a 60% - 40% split with their publishers).

Since I have a few commercial websites with tons of content I immediately signed up for LinkXL's beta program that will start in a week or two. LinkXL also will let me continue to run Adsense and use their service at the same time so everything I make will be icing on the cake. Whether you are an advertiser, publisher, or both, I would recommend you check LinkXL out. They truly have a revolutionary website idea.

Posted by Idea Man at April 21, 2007 03:01 PM

Comments

The days of those large adsense checks from Google are about over. Now you are required to provide some form of revelent content - darn. I guess we now have to give our readers quality content. Gee, wasn't that the original idea when Adsense first appeared? The internet scammers will still find a means to disturb quality content requirements. But in the mean time, advertisers will be more creative. Still lots of money to be made each day on the internet. Learn about link building expert strategies.

Posted by: paul@semelite.com at October 3, 2007 09:19 PM

True there are many different issues here. Link XL has done a very good job differentiating itself, and I know who the owner is, and he can put together high quality services for webmasters.
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