Infolinks

• Software

Software

The most valuable offering that Infolinks brings to the market is the software they employ to select ad content for viewers in real time based on current searches, not past ones. Almost all online advertising today is targeted to some degree or another. What that means is that in most cases, a web users browsing and search history is being stored in a web cash in the browser, and that information is being used to determine which kind of ads the user will see. This kind of technology is impressive, but it all has the same flaw. It is all a delayed response to past searches. Web users start seeing ads for things after they search for them. Infolinks follows this same process but does it in real-time. It is able to look at a search and actually narrow down why a user made the search, and then display the appropriate ads. It enables the advertiser to be a step ahead of where the other systems can get them, and that first step is critical in online retailing.

• Lack of Control
• Pricing Model

Lack of Control

While there is nothing bad to be said about the software that Infolinks uses, there are some critical flaws in the business model that may make it less desirable in the eyes of both publishers and advertisers. Publishers are able to use the system for free after a short sign up process, but after that they no longer have any control over which ads are run on their site. This lack of control presents a large liability for many site owners who are becoming increasingly weary over the content of certain ads that are displayed on their web pages.

Pricing Model

From an advertisers standpoint, the biggest downside to Infolinks is their pay per click pricing model. In general it is more beneficial to an advertiser to use a cost-per-action payment plan, or pays on specific ad interaction rather than just a click through.

Infolinks is a unique and innovative new system that overall does a good job of closing the large gap that exists between web viewers and advertisers. It is safe to say that in the current marketplace Infolinks is one of the best solutions available both to a publisher, and an advertiser, but moving forward it will need to adapt. The company was founded to solve the problem of online ads being so predictable that viewers were subconsciously avoiding them. So far the company has done a great job of fixing that, but if they do not continue to change their models, the same thing will happen to them.

The only customers who will not be happy with Infolinks are the advertisers who don't fully understand what the company is offering, and expect too much of it. If an advertiser just wants to get the ads they already have, into more visible places, so that more relevant customers can see them, Infolinks is a great option.