Increase Your Earnings With The New Kontera Channels
I received an email from Mika Tal, the publisher services manager from Kontera, about a new feature that will be going up soon on their site. It is called Kontera Channels and once it is live, it will really help increase your earning potential using Kontera.
For those who don’t know, Kontera is a program that will make you money online when you install their snippet of code onto your blog. What will happen is their program will scan your content and find relevant keywords and hyperlink them to their advertisers. I have installed Kontera on my blog so that you can see what it looks like. Also ,here is a screen shot:
If you would like to enroll into the Kontera program and start making money online by displaying relevant links, simply visit www.Kontera.com.
You may be wondering about their new Channels and how to use them. The Channels feature offers a deeper level of analysis than that provided by overall reports. This new feature enables you to create individual reporting for a combination of pages or sections of your website.
By creating and employing Channels you’ll get a separate report for each section of your website. This way, you can see and monitor the number of clicks generated by each section! Find out which of your content categories generate the most clicks.
You may be wondering how you can create these channels? To include channels in your Kontera publisher account, contact support@kontera.com with your request. The Kontera team will immediately enable the Channels feature and you’ll be able to create multiple channels in no time through the Publisher Center. From this point on, you’ll be able to evaluate your site’s performance in a more accurate, and direct manner than ever before.
Have you used Kontera before? If so, how has Kontera been working for you? Share your opinions and feedback about Kontera using by leaving a comment on this post.
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Garry,
Have you had much success with Kontera ads? Do they pay more or less than adsense?
-Fred
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I haven’t used Kontera before but I will soon be looking for a program like Kontera. I plan to implement it on one of my sites although I am still working on the posts. Once it starts seeing some traffic from search engines I will then begin to incorporate something like Kontera.
Shoemoney just blogged about another company like Kontera called Triggit. They provide the same service but use caching to reduce the load time on your blog. Might be worth looking into them as well, plus they don’t use the double underline feature that Kontera and others use.
http://www.shoemoney.com/2008/10/29/triggit-in-text-ads-that-dont-suck/
I think the caching feature is a nice feature, it seems as though your blog has slowed down a bit since adding Kontera, at least this post has.
Hey Garry — Thanks for the heads up on Kontera. One of the things that I don’t like about Kontera is that the ad relevance is pretty shaky for certain topics. For example, in the article above, the word “monitor” is pointing at an ad for Diabetes monitors, and “your blog” points to an ad for Gastric Band surgery.
I wonder if Kontera is better in some niches than others (maybe not good for MMO, but could be great for weightloss or health).
Any thoughts on that?
Thanks,
Mark
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Hey Fred,
I tried them once earlier this year and things didn’t go too well. My post:http://www.garryconn.com/make-money-online-by-overhauling-your-old-blogs.php even mentions me removing them from an older blog.
However, the email I received today from Mika seems very promising. Enough even for me to give Kontera a second try. Mark below has asked a few questions and I’ll address them below, you should read that too.
Hi Mark,
I agree. Displaying relevant ads using Kontera has always been an issue for me as well. I installed Kontera on GCDC just a few hours ago more / less to provide a real time demonstration for readers. At the moment on this page, I see six links from Kontera. Four of the six I would classify as being relevant. The remaining two are not.
Here are some tips on optimizing your Kontera ads that weren’t available the last time I tried them.
The first item available is isolating content on your blog to monetize. Let’s say that you have a blog post with four paragraphs of text. You can isolate ONE or MORE paragraphs to display Kontera ads. You do this simply by adding a special DIV CLASS to your paragraph.
Additional tools allows you to block certain keywords from hyperlinking and you also have the abiltiy to block specific advertisers.
With these added tools, I don’t see any alarming issues to be concerned with. Granted, it will take a little bit of work from the publisher’s end to optimize the ads, but after doing so, things should pay off.
With Kontera doing as well as it’s doing on my blog without any optimizations, that isn’t too bad either.
Also, as with any program that you use, there always seems to be a higher percentage of certain types of advertisers on each program. Another tip would be to observe the kind of ads that are being displayed and make note of them for the possibility of future post ideas.
Kontera also has a very nicely written PDF manual that you should take a look at. Reading The Kontera Blog will help too.
If my blog is slow (which I am sure it was) I don’t think Kontera was the cause. Thanks for the reference to Jeremy’s article, though I have already read it I am sure others will too.
In addition to displaying javascript links like Kontera, you should add standard HTML text link ads in your content with http://www.linkxl.com The best part is you get paid by the month these type of links and don’t need to worry about links getting stale and click through rates. Also, advertisers decide if the link is relevant so untargeted links are a non-issue.
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