Better Kontera Wordpress Plugin
written by John Chow
Kontera ContentLink is one of this blog’s better money makers. However, many bloggers have problems installing the codes. The last Kontera Wordpress Plugin I profiled had invisible links in it that could get you banned from Google. Since Sabahan.com broke that story the author of the plugin has made the invisible links optional. Why he didn’t just get rid of it is beyond me.
None of this matter anymore because Karol Krizka of Krizka.net has created an even better Kontera Wordpress plugin.
The plugin automatically generates the Kontera Ad Code, which is configurable through the Wordpress admin panel, and inserts it at the bottom of the blog. The advantage that it has over Rodney Shupe’s Kontera ContentLinks / MIVA InLine Plugin[1] is that in my plug-in you can specify which posts to omit Kontera ads from. I did this because PayPerPost requires you to remove any ads that will overlap the content of the post, and I got too tired of having to add the HTML code to do it every time.
In addition to deciding which posts have and don’t have Kontera ContentLink, Krizka’s plugin allows you to change the link color and other options, all from within the Wordpress admin panel. Another nice feature is the plugin restricts the Kontera ads to your blog posts - no text in your sidebar, header or footer will be highlighted. That will really help to increase the click rate.
Installation of the plugin is a simple download, unzip, upload and activate. The plugin adds a Kontera Integration tab to the Options section of your WordPress admin panel. From there you can set your publisher ID and link color. A box is added to the Write New Post screen allowing you to turn ContentLink on and off.
Kontera ContentLink allows you to make money from advertising without giving up any current advertising spots. Their technology reads your post and turns certain words into an ad. The highlighted words are double underline and an ad pops up when you hover over it. You make money when a reader clicks on the ad and visits the advertiser.
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Hey john, i pretty envy wordpress users because of the vast plugins they have. kontera is a good money making source. By the way one of your link is spelled wrong on your first paragraph “The last kontera wrodpress plugin”
Cheers!
I don’t know what you’re using but WordPress is very very cool just as you said.
I said it before and I’ll say it again - There are only two types of blogger son the net: Those who use Wordpress, and those who wish they use Wordpress!
That’s right, Wordpress rules. I am glad my methodology of choosing Wordpress about 1 year ago when I could have used MovingType and all this other crap. (They were just not easy to use nor did they support WSIYG…
hahaha~ I think that is true.
I am very pleased with WordPress. However the plugins you are recommending don’t seem to work for me.
check which version of wordpress you are using, you may need to upgrade
That’s right, WordPress rules! It’s the only reason that I got off blogspot and bought a domain name.
Oh yeah, I think everyone starts with blogspot and realizes that it sucks so they find their own domain name… I never realized why blogspot never seems to be improving. (The worst thing is the comments section, it takes you like 3 pages just to make a comment…worthless..)
I hate how the comments page is separate from the blog post. I usually the text of the post on the same page, so I can scroll up to see what the visitors are commenting on.
Agreed, I love wordpress and it’s all I ever have used!
there is not a thing that comes close to wordpress at this time.. its to blogs what Joomla is to full blown CMS’s.
Plugin is really very convenient for wpers to insert ads.
what another Great job
Haha, thanks for the shout out, John Chow. Now I just hope that there aren’t any bugs that I missed while I tested it.
Looks good. However, Kontera doesnt appear to have a way to specify how many links appear on a single page. Ive tried it for my website but every second word became linked (i guess my site has alot of keywords that Kontera likes). Perhaps you could do this at a plugin level?
The Kontera documentation claims that this is possible (and that the default ad count is 5), however they do not specify how you can actually set the number of ads in a page. I’ve already emailed them asking what the setting is so I can add that into the next plugin release.
Am I going crazy? or does the link John provided:
http://www.krizka.net/2007/08/26/new-wordpress-plug-in-kontera-integration/
Not have a download link?
And the download link John provided… I think its the old crappy one because it looks nothing like the screenshots of the new one John is talking about. Can anyone else confirm?
Found the download link on the site. Its like dark dark blue and the text is black. Was really hard to see.
Its funny, I switched themes on my blog this weekend and a second ago I just added the Kontera code back in on my blog. Then I head here and see the new plug-in. cool deal. Too late to mess with it tonight though, maybe tomorrow.
John, does it really work for you having all those ads crammed together on the top right? I find them messy and annoying AND - they look like ads. But I do dig the photo of the sports car - that really does say “I’m making money”. BTW I’ve just signed up for your ebook but I hope you’re not going to spam my ass for ever and a day (like Joel Comm does). Cheers, Mal, Paris.
It seems those buttons work really well. Zac Johnson reported nearly 400 clicks in two days from it. Don’t have to worry about getting a ton of emails from me. I haven’t even sent out a newsletter yet.
Oh my yeah, Joel is flooding me with newsletter emails, i wish i never signed up.
How long have you been signed up? I got nailed for about a month but after that it went quite. Either Googles anti-spam got better or Joel eases off a bit.
Since i 18th August when i first posted about the Next internet Millionaire. I believe he will flood until he lets me know about all his products (heck, they are already listed in the affiliates) and then he will go quiet.
They probally look like ads because they are
I have yet to monetize my finance/money blog but I plan to eventually. Lots of great revenue type ideas here!
With all of the new ad technology out there, I wonder if Google Adsense’s importance will ultimately become marginalized… Companies like Kontera seem to be catching up fast and even overtaking at times!
– Raymond
I think John has proved here that if you have a very successful site (high traffic and number of readers, etc) you can do without Adsense and actually make a lot more money by selling your own advertising spaces privately.
However I still think Adsense is a key advertising medium while your blog is building. The key though is to have a good spread of advertising on your site (including the excellent Kontera) - that way you haven’t got all your eggs in one basket.
I signed up for Kontera about 3 days ago and still waiting for their respond. I did have to say that you referred me since they want website with large traffic.
I hope all will goes well.
Thanks for the post. I will install this plugin.
I have had a good experience with Kontera, although it doesn’t pay well until you start getting some real traffic. *=)
and it can do more harm than good on a small blog/site.. as it is borderline of alienating your users.
You think? In what way?
I think as long as you link to other posts in your blog and outbound to other sites (which I think is good practice no matter what the size of your blog) then it is acceptable from a user point of view.
I’ve certainly not had any negative comments or heard of any negative user experience - what feedback have you experienced?
suray,
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I prefer to do some things myself, so i don’t get lost through plugins.
I’m lazy! Plugins are much easier and you (generally) don’t have to worry about breaking something else by accident while installing them.
Nice. I’m going to have to give this a whirl. Does this plugin allow you to specify to only put Kontera ads on posts older than date X?
is adsense allow to use kontera on the same pages with adsense?
Yes it is.
I’ve just got Kontera approved for my new blog so this is great timing. I’ll remove the Kontera code I just added and use this instead.
Installed and configured but when I view source I’m not seeing any Kontera code, anybody else with the same problem or is it just another problem with my non plug-in friendly template?
Looks like I’m talking tomyself here.
Anyhoo, just in case anybody has a smilar problem it looks like the deault setting doesn’t work very well. I found that I had to go into posts and set the Kontera to yes to get it working.
Can you try to redownload again? I looked through the code, and I found a small typo. No idea how it managed to escape me before. Here is the link:
http://www.krizka.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/kontera-01.zip
Cheers,
Karol Krizka
PS: Sorry for not getting back to you earlier, but I was not my my computer.
No probs, I was just hoping that somebody else was having the same problem. Bugs are always much easier that way
All is happy again in Kontera land, thanks.
This is one of the reasons I love Wordpress. Because it has so many users there’s huge support (and therefore testing) for the plugins that are available.
Chances are if you have a problem with a plugin, someone else has experienced something similar and you can follow the workaround, or it’s in the process of being resolved. It just makes things so much easier.
Now if I could only hear back from my Kontera application!
Of course you could roll your own ad links system and have complete control. I ran some articles about mine this week:
http://blog.dantup.me.uk/2007/08/blogging-creating-better-ad-system-with_9334.html
All the code is available across the posts linked to there
thanks for sharing this,
I am not sure yet if ill ever use Kontera on my blog though, but you never know
Have you ever tried Vibrant Media’s Intellitext John?
Never used Kontera myself, but seems like more and more people are benefiting from it. Will go right away and Google it up.
well. but will Kontera effect the adsense paying?
No it doesn’t
Not in my experience. It just added about 15% on top of my PPC earnings.
the people who end up clicking kontera are usually not the people who click adsense in my opinion
Once you get into the Kontera program can you add your code to all of the sites you own or just approved sites? I’m using kontera now but since I’ve been splitting my blog into new blogs my traffic is down on the one site that runs Kontera. I can’t find any useful information on this on the kontera website.
it’s great plugin .. thanks john for da info