Indulging our uncontrollable urge to try out any and all web gadgets out there, we thought why not give Quibblo a shot? So we’ve put together a fun ContentLink trivia quiz.
Our ContentLinks are customizable, feature-rich, In-Text ad units. They’re great for generating your ad revenue, but how much do you really know about them?
If you come by this blog often, you’ve already heard of the new WordPress and Drupal plugins we released recently.
We thought, why should WordPress and Drupal users have all the fun? And on that note, we’re pleased to introduce a module that will make life easier for Joomla users. Everyone should have a chance to easily make money from ads on their sites.
The Joomla module allows a simple integration of ContentLink™ ads.
Here are the features it enables:
* Adding the ContentLink tag to all your pages in one click
* Blocking ContentLink ads from appearing on particular pages
* Displaying ads only to non-registered users
* Changing ContentLinks’ color
Download Module for Joomla 1.5
Download Module for Joomla 1.0
Installation:
From the list of modules on your site select the newly created “Kontera-ContentLink” module.
Feel free to send any question by comment or email. Any feedback is most welcome.
There are many small yet essential decisions in life: paper or plastic, what color kitchen set to buy, where to place ContentLinks on your website’s page…
Well we can’t help with all the above but when it comes to ContentLink ads, we can make a few useful recommendations.
Since ContentLink ads work best on rich text sites, the more textual content your site contains the better. The best area for ContentLinks is where the most relevant content is concentrated. In most sites, this is the top of the page. Remember to make sure that this area is not controlled by Zone or Filter tags, these are used to block ContentLinks from appearing on certain areas of the page.
In some cases, such as forums, the most recent entries are at the bottom of the page. To assure highest relevancy for your forum site, make sure ContentLinks appear in the bottom part of the page.
At least we got one thing off your mind 
We said before that when our partners talk we listen. We love getting your feedback and find it to be a great resource in helping us improve our products and services. That’s why creating and maintaining communication channels with you are particularly high on Kontera’s priority list.
This blog, the Publisher Center and our newly added KnowledgeBase are all meant to be exactly that – a two way communication channel.
Take the Knowledgebase as an example. The feedback provided by the thousands of Kontera publishers who visited it, has helped us identify the frequent questions encountered while employing ContentLinks™ and managing your account. The result on our end is a constant update of the Knowledgebase with new information.
One of the most frequently accessed Knowledgebase articles is “How do I add a new site to my existing Kontera Account?” and so we thought to answer it here as well. Adding another site to your Kontera account is easy. In fact it’s a process that can be summed up in three words send - receive - add. And here’s how:
Use the help tab in your account in Kontera’s Publisher Center and send us an email listing the site domains you want added to your network. We will review each site and create up to 5 new sets of tags for you at a time. Upon receiving the new tags, you can immediately add them onto your site’s template directly before the closing body tag </body> of your source code.
Have you visited the Knowledgebase? Have a question that wasn’t included in it? Let us know and we’ll gladly add it.
Send it to blog@kontera.com
You don’t have to take our word for it, simply watch what a senior Britannica.com executive has to say about Kontera ContentLink™ Ads. See more of our BlogWorld adventures.
I’m no search engine expert but there are a few basic things anyone who’s ever launched a site knows about increasing its popularity. Golden rule number 1: on the web- your presence largely depends on the level of attention search engines decide to invest in you. We also know well there’s much that can be done to encourage search engines to notice your site. For Kontera publishers, the good news is that while improving your search engine rankings, you improve your ContentLink results- and not only for the simple reason of traffic increase.
Here are a few ways in which your SEO efforts improve your ContentLink results.
A few weeks back we gave you a sneak peek at our new Publisher Center.
Well, peeking is no longer necessary.
The Publisher Center is live and you can now login using your existing user and password.
Check out the graphic revenue displays, experiment with the Keyword Report, test the URL report, customize ContentLink Color, and look into our Knowledgebase for detailed information about using ContentLinks™.
What is really exciting is that all this is just the first stage in the improved Publisher Center. We are already working on additional features, all designed to give you better service, greater control and means to increase your contextual ad revenues.
So let us know what you think so far and which other features will help you.
We can’t wait to hear your feedback.
One of the many great things about the online industry is that every publisher, regardless of size, can generate revenues from his web site or blog. To be an online entrepreneur, you don’t need years of experience or academic degrees; you don’t have to be a marketing expert, a confident webmaster or an advertising wiz; the only thing you are required to do, is to explore the various PPC Ad formats and contextual Advertising methods out there, and sign with the ones that are best suited for your website’s content and overall design. Naturally, we all have our preferences.
As internet users, we are accustomed to the idea that the web’s speedy development, along with free access to reading material, necessitate that a page’s real-estate be divided between content and advertising. We have also learned that advertising could complement content, by providing additional information, tailored to fit whatever it was that we were reading about. As part of our everyday online experience, we have all clicked on an eye catching banner, or on a text advertisement, one of the forms of contextual ads. The newest kid in the PPC advertising block is In-Text Advertising. Kontera’s In-Text advertising preserves the advantages presented by other forms of advertising while introducing new benefits to publishers, advertisers and users.
Kontera’s ContentLinks™ change the rules. In the past when a publisher was interested in increasing his advertising revenues, he was required to allocate additional web page “real estate” for ad placement. This action could potentially impair his content and deter users. With Kontera In-Text, a publisher’s ad-inventory is as vast as his content, since every word could serve as an opportunity for advertisers to communicate with their audience.
With ContentLinks, publishers are granted control over the placement and number of PPC In-Text ads inserted in their content. Publishers are also able to customize the color of the double-underlined Keywords, in order to differentiate them from regular links, and assure that they match the website’s design. These characteristics of Kontera In-Text Advertising guarantee that the publisher remains the decision maker regarding his site’s attributes.
We are pleased to be visited by Sustines Laplana, owner and writer of Selaplana.com. Sustines has agreed to tell us a few things about his experiences with Kontera ContentLinks.
Selaplana.com is a blog that covers a variety of topics ranging from technology to entertainment . Besides being a valuable source of information, Selaplana.com has been a part of Kontera’s network for a year, making money by displaying ContentLink™ ads, relevant to the topics his readers are interested in reading.
The great advantage of ContentLinks is the fact that it can be customized to accommodate any individual site’s look & feel. Selaplana.com is a good example of ContenLink inegration in terms of ad density and ContentLink color.
Tell us about yourself (name, country, profession)?
My real name is Sustines Laplana and is known online as SELaplana. I am the first and lone blogger in Southern Leyte, Philippines and I am blogging at selaplana.com and at its network of blogs. I am a graduate of BSElectrical Engineering but working as professional blogger. I have no other business, no other job but just blogging.
What can you tell us about selaplana.com? What do you cover in your site?
I have lots of blogs but the Selaplana.com is my main personal blog. It covers wide range of topics from technology, entertainment, personality, politics or religion. Some of my articles are answers to the questions, advice request, comments, criticism or suggestions sent to me via email by other bloggers, blog’s visitors and subscribers.
It also publishes results in different licensure examination by the Professional Regulation Commission here in the Philippines.
How did you first hear about Kontera?
I first learned about Kontera when I found a double-lined text with links in a certain blog in which when I put over the mouse pointer into that text, the Kontera ads showed.
Since when have you been using Kontera?
I started using the Kontera ads on February 2007.
What do you like about Kontera?
Here are a few of the reasons why I like Kontera:
- Kontera ads have higher CTR compared to other ads
- It can be used at my blogs along with the Adsense ads. Google doen’t penalize publishers who are using Kontera ads. It can even be used along with other ad networks like text link ads, sponsored posts, CPM ads, contextual ads with CPC scheme, CPA ads…
- It’s my 2nd highest earner which is next to adsense.
- The ads are relevant in the sense that only the texts within my blog-page are picked by Kontera.
- I can customize the color of the text-link to look like the regular text-link of my blog.
What would you tell other publishers who consider Kontera?
Publish Kontera ads in your blogs or websites and earn more. You have nothing to worry of about other contextual ads because Kontera does not compete with them. It even plays in harmony with text link ads and sponsored posts. It’s really a smart way of maximizing your ad-publishing income.
Thanks for interviewing here, we’re glad to hear from you and hope to see you continue to earn revenue using Kontera ContentLinks.
More on our BlogWorld adventures- Assaf Henkin, Kontera’s VP Product and Co-Founder, introduces smart ways to monetize your blog. And of course, John Chow has something to say about his experience with Kontera…
