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 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, 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

Enkay: “Kontera has been performing better ever since I changed the link color from being the same as a regular link on the blog. It has grown tremendously since the link color change. You should try it out!”

Happy 6 months birthday Enkay!

Visit Enkay’s Post

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, CPC, 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…”

Read More>>

Update: June 8, 2008- we have released newer plugin versions. Click to find more advanced versions for WordPress, Drupal and Joomla!

As part of an ever growing attempt to fit Kontera ContentLinks™ for different systems, we are releasing new plugins for all Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla! operated sites.

These plugins do the job of spreading ContentLinks™ tag to all pages of your site. This saves you the trouble of having to manually edit your site’s template or php code.

In the spirit of open source, we encourage the further development of the new Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla! plugins by anyone interested in advancing them with us. If you are not a developer but still have suggestions and ideas you want to add to your Kontera ad implementation, please contact us. We are keen to hear them!

New Kontera Wordpress Plugin
New Kontera Joomla! Plugin
New Kontera Drupal Plugin

update: June 10, 2008- We have released a new widget for a one click integration of ContentLink ads on Blogger blogs.  Click to read about it or stay on this page for step-by-step implementation guidelines.

Want to add your ContentLink tag to your blogger.com blog?
No need for additional plugins. Simply log on to your blogger account and follow these steps for a simple distribution of ContentLink ads to all pages of your blog:

1. From the dashboard page click on “layout”

2. Click on “Add a page Element”

3. Click on HTML/JS – Add to blog button

4. Insert Kontera’s tag

5. The Script will be distributed to all pages at once!

Find out more about Kontera’s contextual advertising for your blog.

We are up to our ears with questions and requests from publishers who want to make the most out of Kontera ContentLinks™ through better optimization for their sites. First of all, we love to receive questions, not only because we like the attention but also because we learn a lot from our publishers. Your questions and suggestions are a great opportunity for us to grow and improve.

And we have grown a great deal in terms of what ContentLink™ now has to offer. Since we get many questions about optimization, we decided to take advantage of our time at BlogWorldExpo in Vegas for a real time optimization session, or as we like to call it: “Optimization Extreme“.

Optimization Extreme will be conducted at the BlogWorldExpo on Thursday Nov 8 at 4 pm. We invite you to a one-on-one optimize-your-site tips and tricks session with members of our dedicated account management and optimization teams. Most importantly, Assaf Henkin, our VP, Product & Founder will be there as well to share his profound knowledge on optimization, site monetization and more. We’ll be happy to review your website and advise you on how to maximize revenue with Kontera ContentLinks™ on your site.

Munchies and beer on us!

We are excited to participate in the biggest industry-wide tradeshow and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of blogging. Kontera’s devoted teams of product managers, account managers and optimization experts are gearing up for this incredible event (Vegas, here we come!)

Assaf Henkin, Kontera’s Vice President, Product and Co-Founder will appear on two different panels.

Here’s a short schedule listing:
1ST PANEL: Thursday Nov 8, 10:15-11:45- Monetization Track
“Smart Ways to Monetize Your Blog”
Assaf Henkin, Brian Clark, Jeremy Shoemaker

2ND PANEL: Friday Nov 9, 10:15-11:45- Monetization Track
“Advanced Money-Making Strategies”
Ted Murphy, Ed Shull, Assaf Henkin

If you’re coming, you know what a rare opportunity it will be to witness a fine gathering of online companies, marketers, opportunists, bloggers and young entrepreneurs all in one location — and for once — in the real world. We meet each other in that virtual-online world often enough, but finally, this is face to face.
We invite anyone with a question, an answer, an idea or a general interest, to come and visit at our booth #413.

See you there, in person.

It’s that time of the year again…. Yes, early November brings Ad Tech New York with it and we are happy to be back at Ad Tech New York for the 5th time! It’s a great opportunity to get together with our publishers, advertisers, partners, and industry friends. Come visit us in Ad Tech New York, November 5th - 8th at booth number 1119.

We are all looking forward to being there and we would love to meet publishers, advertisers and anyone with a plain interest in In-Text technology. Come share with us your experience, suggestions, and issues.