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Kontera ContentLink is one of John’s top money makers and can be a very good income source for bloggers. One problem that many Kontera publishers run into is that the ContentLink JavaScript will sometimes link to bold and heading text. John has previously discussed some ways to optimize Kontera ContentLink, but in order to prevent bolded text from being included in ContentLink, he suggested using a text filter span.
<span name=KonaFilter>Any text within the span will not get spidered for
ContentLink</span>
This solution does indeed work, but what if you have hundreds of posts already published on your site? No one wants to go in and manually edit a boatload of posts just to add in a span tag for bolded text.
Automate Bold Text Exclusion In ContentLink
I contacted Kontera and asked them to provide a better solution. Lucky for us, the Kontera team is very responsive and the developers were able to quickly add an enhancement to address this issue. If you would like to automatically exclude bolded text from ContentLink, just add the following line of code into your ContentLink JavaScript block.
var dc_isBoldActive= ‘no’ ;
I have implemented this enhancement on my site, WesleyTech, and I no longer have any bold text being linked by Kontera. This solution should make ContentLink exclude any text wrapped in the following tags: <b>, <strong>, <h1>, <h2>, <h3>. Happy ContentLinking! -Wes
Sign Up Kontera ContentLink
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. Normally Kontera requires a site have a minimum 500,000 page views per month before being accepted into the program. However, John has a partnership with Kontera that will allow smaller blogs to use their ContentLink service.
Fill out the application and enter “John Chow Kontera partnership” into the Comments field. The application is sent to John’s personal account representative. He will approve you based on your blog content and not your traffic level. This is a great way to use a service that is normally only available to high traffic sites.
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OH well I did not know about this one
Thanks for telling
I’m glad you guys all enjoyed my guest post!
well done, wesley
great info
i will apply for the contentlink via jc
thanks
Good job on posting
Thanks for this post! I have applied to Kontera using your application. I have a small blog but it is pretty good. Hopefully, it will make the cut!
does john have less then 500,000 pageviews per month? im just wondering if he meets konteras requirements.
This is awesome news, thanks for sharing!
Nice to know they did this. I found it a bit annoying when things in bold or headers were content linked
Though I had to scrap the Kontera links on my site, I just don’t get the traffic to keep them around. Who knows.. perhaps one day
you should keep them there
i need to apply for an account now
Hi John,
Just want to notify you that I’ve signed up for Kontera ContentLink and filled out the application and entered “John Chow Kontera partnership” into the Comments field.
Hope you will approve my application. Thanks for the chance, John…
What kind of CPM rates can one expect from Kontera?
All any network, your mileage will vary. Anywhere from $1 to $5 CPM. I’m averaging $3.00.
That’s right about where I am. Well, $2.75 to be exact. But that’s only recently. Before my Effective CPM was down around 90 cents. Yikes!
Wow, this is an area where I have the Evil John Chow beat. Too bad my traffic is less and he still earns a ton more than me.
I only made $5 with Kontera thus far. The problem with it is that you need A LOT of traffic to make some money out of it.
I am less than yours.
From my experience with Kontera on my two blogs, there were two keys to Kontera success and that is why I ended up removing the ads from my one site.
I think for the April totals Kontra almost passed Adsense. I think they were within $100 of each other. I’d like to add it to my site soon.
I tried Kontera for a week and rolled in around $5 from it. I decided to take it off the site as I found it a bit too invasive on the reader experience.
hmm, that’s true
Thanks for the tip. I will have to get that updated shortly and keep that spider crawling anywhere but my titles!
i am using Kontera..thanks to you John !! And my revenues are extremely low currently but so is my traffic 300/day But slow and steady …its gonna be there..Ohh i got selected by review me..:D
John,
Today’s post is a great tip on the automated Text Exclusion, I think this is something many of us bloggers wants to eliminate.
-Swapw
That’s good to know; thanks for pointing that out. How does it feel to be a guest author on JC dot com, Wes?
Fun fun fun!
I stopped using them because too many links were close together.
One BLOG post would have 6 links and the one under it would have 1 or 2. It made my BLOG look junky havine too many links so close together.
If they can spread out the links better I might give them a second try.
Michael
I love Kontera. I use it for three of my blogs, and though I had low expectations, I’m enjoying good success.
Thanks for the tip!
Deb
John ! how about an interview at http://i-shout.blogspot.com? I’ll be pleased!
well, pay jc 400 first
Thanks for the tips, I always have content link double line on my Title. This is good
I’ve got an issue where the span filter isn’t removing my ads from some posts viewed with FireFox. Very weird. I’ve got an email in to Mike to hopefully resolve this issue as well.
I joined Kontera but everyone hated it
I haven’t got much success with Kontera compared to adsense
Ravi
it takes time
take it slow
For my blog, it did almost nothing as far as income, if anything, it drove readers away. From my research, most people think they are annoying. I took them off after the first month.
John, I was wondering if you could check out any “news” sites and perhaps even rate them in terms of how they place their ads. (They don’t have to be big reviews, but who’s doing a good job and who’s not doing so hot.) I’d be curious to hear what you think.
john’s too busy to do that
Sorry for the nagging post.
Aha - so that’s it… I kept running into Kontera on sites that I never thought would have that kind of traffic, and I just didn’t get it. Thanks, I might give it a shot!
I wrote about Kontera about 3 months back on my blog. Its really a nice service and can make you some good money.
http://onlinepresence.blogsailor.com/2007/02/23/web-advertising-kontera-contentlink/
I just signed up under John’s referral..lets see if i get approved !!
good luck
can you use one account on multiple websites
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Yeah, I made the cut. Thanks again John. I have Kontera on my main blog. I also contacted them to add Kontera to my other (17) blogs that I post at every day, plus my video sites (5) and forums (5).
The sites actually belong to my friend but I do all the work and since all 3 AdSense slots are used up on most I had to find an alternative. I will run it passed my friend today since I am going over to pick up 2 weeks pay ($40 LOL its alot in the Philippines) for maintaining his sites. He will probably go for it. Anyway been up for 27 hours straight and its time for bed.
Latter and thanks again
Nick
Kontera seems like a good source of revenue but the ads, that are placed within the content, seems to interfere and lower the user experience.
I really enjoyed reading your article. Seeing that you highly recommend Kontera, I am definitely going to give it a try.
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I’ve just signed up for the programs a few weeks ago, and am using it, and I guess it doesn’t make much negative effect, but really, if I’m getting 7 cents per click, that’s a good click.
So it’s not really worth to anybody who doesn’t have tons of visitors every day.