Why Are You Not Using Kontera?
During the first week of February Kontera made their in-text advertising service, ContentLink, available to all publishers that meet their content requirements.
You might not have heard of this, though, as only people that signed up as a friend of Joel Comm were given this special deal.
I don’t have a website that has 500,000 pageviews per month, and I doubt you do either. I have, however, been using ContentLink for almost a month now, and while the website I’m using it on is still growing I can already see the potential revenue their service can provide.
It seems that once Google changed their terms of service to allow publishers to use other contextual advertising on the same pages as AdSense ads, so long as they don’t look like AdSense ads, Kontera wanted to get their product into a broader market, something their relationship with Joel Comm has allowed them to do.
In the month of February Kontera claims to have signed up 2,000 new publishers, but it seems some publishers haven’t started using their service yet. This is their loss, but it might also be your gain.
Kontera is going to be giving away a $1,000 Visa card to one lucky publisher at the end of March that is using their service and has made at least $60 in revenue for the month of March.
Barring my website hitting the front page of Digg during every week in March it’s likely that I won’t qualify for this reward.
With that said, why aren’t you using Kontera yet? Maybe your website is like mine and it’s not big enough to make $60 in March, but if you’ve got quality content then you’re missing a piece of the in-text advertising pie.
Go on; sign up for Kontera today (you’ll probably want to tell them Joel Comm sent you). What do you have to lose?
Have you been using Kontera already? If so, I’d love to hear your experience with their service.
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Ashish Mohta said
on March 3 2007 @ 12:21 pm
It sounds cool but the codes are messy.If you can make a post on how to use it will be useful
Ashish Mohta said
on March 3 2007 @ 12:28 pm
@Ryan: I just check back.Its the easiest to implement.I am using it now and its working cool
Ryan J. Parker said
on March 3 2007 @ 12:39 pm
Ashish, yeah it is pretty easy to use … I do have a tip for using it with Wordpress so that it only puts links in your content that I’m going to make a post about.
Maki said
on March 3 2007 @ 1:18 pm
It’ll be nice if there was a way to limit the number of links that show up in a post. I sometimes get over 10 links in a single post and that irritates the hell outta me.
Do you know a hack for it, Ryan?
Ryan J. Parker said
on March 3 2007 @ 2:31 pm
Maki, there is a way to do this and I contacted Kontera on this and other options they don’t have documentation for. I’ll make sure to post any info I get from them about this and other options they have available for publishers.
dan1el said
on March 3 2007 @ 6:28 pm
Anyone know what the payouts are like?
Ryan J. Parker said
on March 3 2007 @ 6:33 pm
It really depends on your traffic and pageviews, but I see larger sites claim to make around $60/day. This is probably a lot of traffic, but I think it gives you an idea as to how high you can go.
I doubt most of us can’t achieve those kind of numbres, though.
Maki said
on March 3 2007 @ 7:56 pm
Thanks, Ryan.. looking forward to your report.
dan1el, my article on Kontera has some exact figures on earnings, taken from some DP members using Kontera. See below:
A Review of Kontera - Monetize your website with Contextual In Text Advertising
dan1el said
on March 4 2007 @ 8:38 am
Thanks Maki, I’ll go read that now.
Hannes Johnson said
on March 4 2007 @ 7:13 pm
I added Kontera a few days ago and I think it’s a great way to add extra revenue to your sites (although I haven’t made much money yet).
It’ll be interesting to see how much it’ll add to my total revenue…
Madhur Kapoor said
on March 5 2007 @ 10:06 am
I have just registered with Kontera . Lets see what effect does it have for my blog .
Ryan J. Parker said
on March 5 2007 @ 10:33 am
Hannes and Madhur, I’m interested in hearing the success you have with Kontera.
HMTKSteve said
on March 15 2007 @ 11:07 am
I just signed up. We will see what happens next!
Ryan J. Parker said
on March 16 2007 @ 12:11 am
Steve, let me know how it goes for you. I’m slowly starting to see an increase in the CTR and revenue on my blog, so it takes some time to get going.
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