My 3 Day Experience with Kontera ContentLink

Posted by Alan Liew | 11:36 AM

Pay per click advertising has been an effective way for this blog to generate income. Before Google disallowed me to display AdSense pay per click on this blog, I was able to make USD2,000 to USD2,800 per month depending on the traffic level.

Google stopped me from using AdSense, so I sought for some alternatives. Kontera is one of them.

Applying for a Kontera account has been easy and convenient. There is no review process I need to go through. I just have to fill out and submit the application form; and they will automatically send me a welcome email with an activation link that I can click to start accessing Kontera and use their Content link ads immediately.

I successfully generated the Kontera ad code and placed it on my blog. The Kontera Content links showed up on my blog with 24 hours. I saw the keywords such as pay per click, money making opportunity and some other unrelated keywords got converted into Kontera Content links. Non of my main keywords converted into Kontera links. Seem like Kontera is lacking ad inventory for my niche 'make money online'.

So far, I'm getting 40 ad clicks and guess how much I earn from this 40 clicks. Well, no even $1. The pay is so low. There is no way Kontera can compare with AdSense where I used to earn $0.35 per AdSense ad click in average.

I decided to remove Kontera. It is not for my niche. They actually don't have any ad that is relevant to my topic and niche. The keyword 'money making opportunity' which has been converted into Kontera link, when I point my mouse on it, a small box will pops up giving the ad description. The ad is actually promoting a dictionary, it is not money making opportunity of any sort.

It is no point to send visitors to the offers that they have no interested at all. So, I will stop using Kontera.

I think Kontera is more for topics like shopping, technology, electronic products...etc. Blogs with these content topics might earn much better ad revenue with Kontera.

8 comments
  1. Y3AN 1:28 PM  

    Hi,
    I like your blog very much and can we have a link exchange?

    I will save your link in my blog first. ^^ and this is mine:

    http://blog-earning-money-online.blogspot.com/

    Have a good day!

  2. make money online 4:37 PM  

    Of course PPC is a best way to make money online. And details given in this blog are quite good. Personal experience will also guide very well in make money online field.

  3. Sam 4:49 PM  

    I use it on my blog and it nothing compared to adsence it pays something like 3 to 5 cents which is nothing. Like you said the links have nothing to do with the key word that is high lighted which does make it a bad experience for the readers. One more thing I have a shopping blog and thought we can swap blogs I also will put blog on my site first.

    Thanks and I love your blog.

    http://shopontheinternet.blogspot.com/

    Check it out and let me know and tell me what you think. I like a pros opinion.

    e-mail me at sam@thecoupongeek.com

  4. Kontera Publisher Services 6:02 PM  

    Hi Alan,

    My name is Vered and I'm from Kontera.

    Thank you for this post, publisher feedback is extremely important to us as it supports our efforts to constantly improve our products and services.

    That said I'd like to explain a few issues mentioned here:

    1.We're very glad you found our new registration process easy and convenient. To simplify matters for our potential partners we enable them to get the tag and implement it as soon as the reg. process is completed. However, each and every website in Kontera's network is reviewed to ensure compliance with publisher qualifications as soon as the tag is activated.

    2.Keyword targeting occurs in real-time every time your pages load. Furthermore, our ContentLink ads are geo-targeted which means that you will see different Keywords and ads dependant on where you are located when accessing your website.CPC rates are also a factor of geo-targeting. The majority of Internet advertisers are focused on the US market, therefore, available ads and revenues generated by US traffic are significantly higher than those generated by international traffic.

    3.Kontera ContentLinks allow you to monetize additional areas of your site without being required to allocate additional web-page real estate for advertising. Kontera's revenues aren't supposed to match AdSense revenues but rather serve as an additional income stream and the majority of our publishers successfully use both services.

    Finally, I hope you may reconsider your decision and give Kontera a longer trial. A 3-day testing period is not sufficient to assess the revenue potential of any ad network.

    We will be very pleased to welcome you back to Kontera and I'll be glad to answer any additional question you may have.

    Thanks,
    Vered

  5. Earn Money Online 6:22 PM  

    After loitering around for hours on the net,I finally got what I wanted. This post is really GREAT. Thanks a ton.

  6. Alan Liew 12:58 PM  

    Hi Vered,

    Thanks for your assistant and helpful information about kontera.

    I will take your suggestion and try Kontera ad links longer.


    Alan

  7. Gbenga Aijotan 4:09 PM  

    Very nice post. i once tried kontera on my blog and i pulled it off coz of this. However, with vered explanation, i'll be willing to try it again and see how it goes.

  8. Anonymous 12:22 PM  

    01/17/2009 52 0 0.00 $0.00 $0.00
    01/18/2009 99 1 1.01 $0.00 $0.02
    01/19/2009 64 0 0.00 $0.00 $0.00

    I just wanted to show you this on the 18th I got on click for $o.oo

    looooooool is that unreal or what

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