By Mika Tal

Many publishers find the combination of Google adsense along with Kontera ContentLinks™ to be highly successful. Since ContentLinks ads are quite different in appearance than adsense, they do not take away from the income adsense brings but rather serve as an additional revenue stream.

One of our publishers, Carlos of www.virtualpetlist.com, speaks about the revenue increase in his forum occuring since he started using ContentLinks™:

“Kontera has really helped increase my daily earnings. Adsense was averaging $5/day on my community for me and now since I’ve implemented Kontera on my community, my daily earnings are now $10 – $20/day. I recommend Kontera to any new webmaster that is trying to earn money from their community.”

Nice going for virtualpetlist.com!

Success is a long and draining process

It takes much hard work and imagination…

We are going to help you speed this up.

In the online world, the keyword is Exposure, Exposure, Exposure, and that’s exactly what we want to bring to your site.

So we are proud to present… Kontera’s Video Testimonial Contest

We get many wonderful emails from partners telling us how using ContentLinks has brought them great results in terms of their site’s revenue and exposure. We love these emails and want to take it to another level by seeing the face behind the blog
How to join: send us a short video telling of the benefits Kontera ContentLink has brought to your site/blog

The Prizes

By exposure we mean- your site advertised on other sites throughout our network. Kontera’s network includes thousands of publishers, and growing daily. Our ads are contextually targeted and so your ad campaign will appear in sites that display content relating to your category/niche. Read more on Kontera’s Pay Per Click Advertising Solutions.

And here’s what you can win:

1. First prize: $1000 worth of free advertising for your site/ blog + Exposure for your site on Kontera website and on The Official Kontera Blog.
2. Second prize: $500 worth of free advertising for your site/blog
3. Third prize: $100 worth of free advertising for your site/blog

Testimonials can also be animated or flash-based- we also accept short stories in the form of comics.
Feel free to be as original and creative as you like, and did we mention fun?

Here’s how to enter:

STEP 1:

What you should include:

• Length of video/animated flash: up to 3 minutes
• Tell of how and when you started using Kontera
• What sort of impact and benefit ContentLink made for your site/blog
• Your name and website/company name
• Whatever other biographical details you want to include

STEP 2:

Upload your video to YouTube
Tag it: kontera, contentlink, In-Text ads, contextual advertising, ad
Send the URL to video@kontera.com

Contest Rules

1. To enter the contest you must be a current Kontera publisher or advertiser.
2. By entering this Contest, you explicitly grant Kontera the right to use and publish the biographical information that you provide in the video. This does not include any other information Kontera has (such as email, street address, telephone number).
3. Submitted videos must not include any profanity or indecent images. Kontera does not work with adult content and gaming advertisers or publishers.
4. Submitted videos must comply with Kontera Terms and Conditions and YouTube Terms and Conditions.
5. Contest begins Dec 1, 2007 and ends March 1, 2008.

By Mika Tal

Whenever a publisher speaks, we do our best to listen and absorb. Over time we found out that it’s the best way to learn about things that work well, things that are not working well, and additional capabilities and features that could add value. We’ve received some excellent responses from bloggers who share their Kontera experiences with their readers. We liked them so much that we’ve decided to present them here:

Jim Karter: “Last month was one of my great months where I crossed $4,000 for the first time with them. I was very happy that I was earning quite good. But this month is ever better. This is just half month gone and I have already crossed $2,800, so I am expecting to make around $5,000 for the month. I have added 4 more new sites which are quite small right now and I am working hard for them to make them big. So more hopeful for the next month (November).”
Visit Jim Karter’s Post

chalacuna: “ContentLink™ Ads Kontera uses a new form of “passive advertising”. I really like these ads because they target key words in your website content and places a link(you determine the content) where it relates to the advertiser. For example, if you have a page about ’search engines’, Kontera’s script will add a link to your text with simple on-screen pop-up advertising that blends into your website. No nasty popup windows, pop-under windows, exit windows, and so on. This clean text link placement is ideal for article directories, blogs, and other content heavy websites.”
Visit Homebizniz’s Post

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Find out more about In Text Advertising
Read more about Kontera’s Pay Per Click Advertising solutions

We are still catching our breaths after an adventurous company day.  Nothing like a day in nature to get some action going. 

Only slides will tell…

An article in MediaPost Publications presents a great overview of the online marketing industry and its ever changing trends. Bryan Everett, our Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development, has some interesting points to make about marketing, PPC advertising, In-Text and Henry Ford…

“Henry Ford is commonly reputed to have made the statement ‘Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black’. Though Google AdSense has certainly become the ‘new black’ in the last few years, marketers now have a lot of online advertising alternatives that often generate a comparable, and sometimes stronger ROI. While I am not advocating that marketers drop AdSense of course, I believe marketers would benefit by taking a look at some of the other options now available in the marketplace. Here are some of the key reasons to diversify…”

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