This piece of information ties in to another “fun fact”: Nearly 65 million users ‘Like’ something through Facebook every single day.

Clearly, people like to ‘Like’, and thousands of publishers already reap the benefits – sharing their news and content via the popular social network site.

The reason the ‘Like’ button has been so effective for so many website owners isn’t exactly a secret. With one mouse click, a link to your latest post or article will instantly appear in the News Feed of your friends’ Facebook accounts. It’s a great way to grow traffic and create a buzz around your website: For every additional person that hits the ‘Like’ button on one of your website pages (including yourself ); an exponential amount of their friends will see what you’ve been raving about.

With over 500 million active users each month (and counting!), and with each user having, on average, 130 friends – there’s a vast audience for the right content to go viral.

As a publisher, you’re naturally interested in increasing your website traffic. If you haven’t already done so, you might want to consider adding the ‘Like’ functionality to your website or blog. If you’d like to get the Facebook ‘Like’ plugin for Wordpress, you can do so here, or for Blogger here. And if you’d like to learn more about implementation in general, here’s the Facebook Like Button Page.

Also, don’t forget to ‘Like’ this post. As you can see below, Kontera most definitely practices what it preaches

The plugin allows you to:

• Add the Kontera tag to all your pages in one click.
• Determine when ads will begin appearing on new posts- you can choose to block ads for a particular number of days. Feature ads only on posts.
• Feature ads only on comments.
• Easily change your links color.
• Choose to enable or disable Kontera ads from within your post editor.

Download Kontera-WordPress Plugin for WP 2.8

The plugin integration is a snap – here’s how to set it up:

1. Unzip the plugin file to your local hard drive.
2. Copy the Kontera folder to your blog’s WordPress content/plugins directory.
3. On your WordPress administrator, select “Plugins”.
   
4. Scroll down to “Inactive Plugins” and Click Activate next to the “Kontera ContentLink” plugin entry.
   
5. Now that your plugin is active, navigate to the sidebar and under the “Settings” menu, click to go to the “Kontera Settings”.
   
6. In the top field, enter your publisher ID number. This is your personal ID which appears on your Kontera tag:
   
7. That’s it! It’s time to experiment with the different options offered by the Kontera WordPress Plugin.
   
8. Remember, with this plugin, you also have the option to enable or disable Kontera ads from within the post editor.

Download Kontera-WordPress Plugin for WP 2.8

We hope you’ll find this new tool helpful and look forward to hearing about your experience with it.

* If you are using an earlier WordPress version, please visit the Publisher Resources page on our website for the appropriate plugin.

*Since WordPress is open source and offers a wide variety of themes, we cannot guarantee that the plugin will support them all. Please contact support@kontera.com if you encounter any implementation issues.

In order to keep this post concise, we had to narrow it down to 8 top products and services launched by Kontera that were focused on existing and prospective publisher base, so without further ado , here are the chronologically ordered top Kontera launches of 2008:

1. KnowledgeBase- Launched January 21- The KnowledgeBase surrounds a wide range of information about Kontera optimization, publisher payments, and technical issues. The KnowledgeBase was another move in our push to give Kontera publishers greater independence through accessibility to information. The knowledgebase proves very helpful and accommodates an impressive amount of publishers daily.
2. Publisher Center- Launched January 31- the Publisher Center offers Kontera partners a range of high end capabilities and control over ContentLink ads on their sites and their accounts. What’s even more exciting is the fact that the Publisher Center is continuously undergoing upgrades and updates since its initial launch. It will continue to improve in order to give Kontera publishers a greater control and more possibilities over their In-Text ads.
3. The Kontera Hybrid- Launched March 25- Kontera’s newest advertising solution, a completely customizable, In-Text media layer that simultaneously displays relevant content alongside advertisements. The Hybrid layer enhances a webpage by presenting links to related content, videos, and images alongside advertisements in one cohesive unit. The Kontera Hybrid is currently only available to select publishers.
4. Invite a Friend Program – Launched March 31- Through this program, publishers can send their friends an invite to join Kontera. For each friend who becomes an active member, you receive a $25 bonus award. The Invite a Friend program has been very successful in expanding the Kontera family and it will continue with us well into 2009.
5. New Plugins for WordPress, Joomla and Drupal – Launched throughout May – These plugins are an important milestone in our efforts to simplify ContentLink implementation for use on various platforms. The plugins allow the setup of ContentLink ads, without the complications of modifying your site’s code. Have a look at our WordPress plugin video tutorial.
6. Blogger Widget- Launched June 10- Much like the plugins mentioned above but even simpler, the Blogger widget allows you to implement ContentLink on Blogger blogs with just one click. Login to your Kontera account, click on the “Kontera It” button and the Kontera tag will be automatically added to your pages. Monetizing your blog has never been easier.
7. Kontera on Pluck-On-Demand partnership- Launched November 20- Through the partnership with Pluck, Kontera ContentLink ads are automatically generated within the Pluck-on- Demand content widget creating an additional revenue stream for publishers. Publishers get the whole package: free and relevant content populated with targeted ads.
8. Holiday ’09 Cash Bonus – Launched December 18- Our latest promotion, recently advertised and still going strong. If you are not yet a publisher, there’s no better time to join. Sign up with Kontera by Jan 15, 2009 and as soon as you reach $75 in earnings, we’ll round your balance up to $100. That’s an extra $25 on us!

Happy 2009!

This is why we like PicApp.

PicApp is an application that enables online publishers to add the best stock photos to their content for free without the copyright or licensing worries.

Here are a few great things PicApp enables you to do:

• Access an inventory of over 20 million images, in every imaginable content category, with 10K images being updated by the minute.

• Get free and legal use of the most recent editorial images from top content providers.

• Get images already tagged with keywords and to promote indexing and SEO.

• Register your search term on PicApp RSS feeder (for example- Brad Pitt, red roses, babies, NFL, etc..) and receive notifications on your RSS tool reader whenever PicApp gets new images that match the search term.

And last but definitely not least:

• You can now download the PicApp WordPress plug-in and use it to search and easily add premium, free and legal images straight from your editor into your post!

With the plug-in, PicApp will be fully integrated into your editing flow, so you will no longer be required to open new browser and look for images.

The PicApp plugin is a quick and easy way to add images to posts, Just take a look at the demo.

PicApp is available to answer any questions and welcomes any feedback at discover@picapp.com

Kontera’s WP plugin for version 2.6 has been updated and is ready for your download.  Updates for WP 2.7 will soon begin as well

Read about the plugin’s features and capabilities here.
Here’s how you set it up:

1. Unzip the plugin file to your local hard drive.
2. Copy the Kontera folder to your blog’s WordPress content/plugins directory.
3. On your WordPress administration pages, navigate to Plugins
4. Click Activate next to the Kontera ContentLink plugin entry.
5. Navigate to the Options page and choose the newly created submenu Kontera Settings.

In the top field, enter your publisher ID number. This is your personal ID which appears on your ContentLink tag:

Make your selections- try the different capabilities the Kontera-WordPress plugin offers and see what works best for your blog.

Download Kontera- WordPress Plugin for WP 2.6

If you haven’t already tried our new WordPress plugin, there’s no time like the present. We’ve put together a short tutorial to make integration a snap:

Download Plugin for WordPress 2.5
Download Plugin for WordPress 2.0

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:

1. Download and unzip the plugin.
2. On your Joomla administrator, select “Installers” and then “Modules.”

   

3. Browse to find the unzipped “kontera-joomla” file and then click the “Upload and Install” button.
4. From the dropdown menu select “Modules” and then “Site Modules.”

   

   From the list of modules on your site select the newly created “Kontera-ContentLink” module.

   

5. Now you can set your ContentLink preferences.

• Within the “Kontera Settings” page, add your Kontera Publisher ID in the appropriate field. This is your personal ID which appears on your ContentLink tag:

  

• In the “Position” field select the lowest position on your site’s template, to set the code’s placement on your pages. The default lowest position is “Debug”
• Use the “Access Level” field to determine which users will see ContentLinks on your pages.
• Use the “Menu Item Link(s)” window to select the pages on which ContentLinks will appear.
• You can easily change ContentLink’s color by filling out the appropriate field.Download Module for Joomla 1.5
  Download Module for Joomla 1.0

Feel free to send any question by comment or email. Any feedback is most welcome.

Drupal users will be happy to hear that there’s a new plugin in town. Kontera ContentLinks are now offered along with a range of new features to accommodate your Drupal site.

With the new Drupal plugin for ContentLinks ads, you’ll be able to:

• Add the ContentLink tag to all your pages in one click
• Block ContentLink ads from appearing on particular pages
• Display ads only to non-registered users
• Enable/Disable ads from polls, search results or forums
• Change ContentLinks’ color

Download plugin for Drupal 5.7
Download plugin for Drupal 6.1

Installation:

1. Download plugin and unzip the file.

2. Upload the unzipped folder to your ’sites/all/modules’ directory. If the “modules” subdirectory does not exist, then it should be created.

3. Login to your Drupal Account, and on the left side menu select “Administer” and then “Site building”.

4. Within the “Site Building” section select “Modules”. Scroll down the “Modules” page to find the newly created “Kontera ContentLink” module. Check the box on the left hand side and click on the “Save Configuration” button.

5. On the Drupal menu select “Site Configuration” and then “Kontera settings” to set your plugin preferences.

6. Within the “Kontera Settings” page, add your Kontera Publisher ID in the appropriate field. This is your personal ID which appears on your ContentLink tag:

Now select your ContentLink™ preferences, click the “Save configuration” button and you’re good to go!

Download plugin for Drupal 5.7
Download plugin for Drupal 6.1

Read more on Kontera’s In-Text Advertising

WordPress users, making money blogging with ContentLink™ contextual ads has just become easier than ever. With the new WordPress plugin, you will be able to easily customize ContentLink ads to accommodate your preferences.

Download Kontera-WordPress Plugin for WP 2.5

This plugin enables you to:

• Add the ContentLink tag to all your pages in one click
• Block ContentLink ads from appearing on particular posts or categories
• Determine when ContentLink ads will begin appearing on new posts- you can choose to block ads for a particular number of days
• Display ContentLinks only on posts
• Display ContentLinks only on comments
• Change ContentLinks color

Here’s how you set it up:

1. Unzip the plugin file to your local hard drive.
2. Copy the Kontera folder to your blog’s WordPress content/plugins directory.
3. On your WordPress administration pages, navigate to Plugins.



4. Click Activate next to the Kontera ContentLink plugin entry.



5. Navigate to the Options page and choose the newly created submenu Kontera Settings.



6. In the top field, enter your publisher ID number. This is your personal ID which appears on your ContentLink tag:

Now it’s time to make your selections. Try the different capabilities this new plugin offers and see what works best for your blog.

Download Kontera-WordPress Plugin for WP 2.5
Download Kontera-WordPress Plugin for WP 2.0