Ontok
Frequently Asked Questions
How do we make money?
You get paid by us via Paypal on the 15th of each month for activity of the previous month, provided that your accrued earnings are at least $25.00.
Does this work with Adsense?
Yes. The Ontok Highlighter does not conflict with Adsense terms and conditions.
What keyphrases will the Ontok Highlighter highlight?
Ontok matches keyphrases your page content to over 10 million product-related and informative keyphrases, scoring matches based on topic relevance, how product-related the keyword phrases are, and how "rare" or informative the keyphrase is.
What kind of web sites does this work well on?
Any site that has regularly mentions product-related keyphrases: forums, blogs, review sites, and trade publications.
How much revenue does this generate?
This depends on the kind of web content site you have. For quality content, Ontok is prepared to pay between $3 and $10 CPM.
How long does it take for my Ontok account to be approved?
No more than 1 business day. Your site must have a US audience to be approved.
Does my site have to be in English to use the Ontok Highlighter?
Yes. At present we only support English highlighting.
Does my site have to have US visitors to use the Ontok Highlighter?
Yes. We route users to shopping.com merchants, which is US-centric.
How we suppress highlighting?
We can do it! See our page on How to Get the Highlighter Not to Highlight.
Can you change the appearance of the links?
You can change the link color when you get the Ontok Highlighter code, along with the border color of the ad.
How often do you crawl my site?
We cache every unique URL for 1 to 4 hours before we crawl it again. We do our best to strip to strip sessionid-looking things from your URL when we cache our page analysis. But if we don't do this properly, we may be crawling your site more than we should. Let us know if you think this is the case.
What browsers and operating systems do you support?
We support IE6+, FF1.0+, and Safari, on all major operating systems (Win/Mac/Lin).
Can I get a report of how many mouseovers and clicks were made?
Yes, just log in to your account.
Do you collect personally identifiable user information?
No, we do not, and will not do so in the future.
Do you cookie users?
No, we do not cookie users at this time, but may do so in the futre.
How long does it take for the links to appear?
This depends on the structure of your HTML page and which browser is being used. Longer pages take longer, but typically it finishes within 3 seconds.
Where should the Ontok Highlighter Javascript code go?
For robustness, place it at the END of your HTML page, right before the closing </body> tag. Here's a quick visual:

<html>
<head>
... </head>
<body>
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...
// PUT YOUR SCRIPT HERE
</body>
</html>

Never include it more than once.
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