On the first day of July 2008, Kontera launched the July 2008 promo that let the new Kontera In-Text Ad Publishers earn 100% revenue share. It might not be good news to those who already joined the Kontera In-Text Ad Publishing network prior to July 1, 2008 but it’s  a good news to those who are not yet member of it and wants to maximize the income of blogs and websites through ads. What you need to do is to visit this page, and sign-up from there.

Remember to sign-up from the promotional page, not on the homepage of Kontera website because those who sign-up through the promotional page are those qualified for this promo.

The promo will end on the last day of July 2008, so you still have the chance to qualify for this promo. What ever the amount you earn for this month, will be yours alone.

Earn More from Kontera

We, the old members ( who joined the network before July 1, 2008) of the Kontera In-Text Ad Publishing network, are not qualified already for this promo but we can still earn more from Kontera. Just invite your friends and you’ll get $25/person.

In inviting your friends to join the Kontera In-Text Ad Publishers network, you need to use the INVITE tool at your Kontera CP and let them click on the link sent to them via email. This is the only way your invitation will be counted and valid for the $25/person gift.

More writings about Kontera

• Kontera Hybrid
• Kontera Plugin for Wordress, Earn $25
• Maximize Blog Monetization with Kontera

I am currently on my trip to Hinunangan, Southern Leyte and have just dropped here in St. Bernard, Southern Leyte in order to inform you that you can now use the Kontera Plugin for Wordpress in managing your own Kontera ads.

Few of its features are:

• Insert the ContentLink™ tag into all your pages.
• Block ads from particular posts or categories.
• Decide when Contentlinks will appear on new posts.
• Block ContentLinks from comments.

You can download the Plugin here.

And by the way, you can earn $25 per publishers you bring in to Kontera Network. What you need to do is just invite your friends by using the INVITE feature in your Kontera Account.

Just like what you have noticed, the ads displayed on this blog have been rearranged. We do this because we need to increase our blog’s income so that we can finance the transfer of our blogs, including those under our reseller hosting, from shared to dedicated server to lessen our blogs downtime and problems. Few of the changes are:

1. Ads on the header part or our blog
2. Ads on the sidebar
3. Ads on the content side

Header Ad

Last March 24, 2008, we’ve tried to place a 468×60 ad on the header part of our blog through the Project Wonderful service. I set the price, lowest bid price, to $1 per day on that ad. However, I only got few advertisers on it. I should earn an average of $30 per month on that space but it wouldn’t happen. So, I decided to offer that space to direct advertisers. But while waiting for advertisers, I temporarily place adsense 468×60 image ad there.

Sidebar Ads

On the sidebar, we have the 160×600 ad of Adsense and below it are the 6 slots of 125×125 ad from the Project Wonderful.

The Adsense ad (160×600) has been configured so that it will show image ad when viewing the single-post of our blog, otherwise it will show text ads. I did it so that only 5 or fewer text ads of Adsense will show up on every page of our blog and the other ads should be image ads.

You see, if you are viewing the single-post of our blog, the square ad above the content of our post will show 5 or fewer text ads. So, then other adsense ads (header and the sidebar) should be image ads. However, if you are viewing the homepage, category pages, and archive pages, there’s no square ad displayed on the content side, so the160×600 adsense ad on the sidebar will show the text ads and the the adsense ad on the header should be image ad.

What’s the point in configuring Adsense Ads in that way?

Okay. Our purpose in doing this is to increase the CTR of the Adsense ads because as the CTR increases, surely, our Adsense income will increase too. I set the adsense ads to show up to 5 or fewer text ads in every pages of this blog. In other words, the ads of the top 4 high bidders (adsense) will only show-up in every webpages of our blog. And we all know that these ads have high PPC price.

But of course, not all users will be interested on the text ads shown. We need to make our visitors exit our blog in the right exit door which is the ad on our blog, that’s why we put image ads from Adsense, hoping that they might be interested with them.

Content Side

The size and type of the adsense ads shown on the content side are not changed. The adsense ad is still in square and in text. What has been changed here is the color of the title of the text ads, from red to blue. However, I’m not sure if this placement is not violating the new terms and policies of the adsense program.

Finale

For one month, we’ll observe if what we’ve done really works. If not, then we’ll find other ways in increasing the income of our blog.

Update: April 14, 2008

I made some changes on the ads. The 468×60 header ad spot will now be served by AdBrite. I also changed the 336×280 ad above the post-content to 300×250 ad with a 250×250 image ad on its right side.

Let’s say what’s the effect of this arrangement.

The recent acquire of a Kodak C613 Point and Shoot Digital Camera helps me blog again at my Honda XRM Rider blog as the Motoristang Pinoy.

Just this day, I posted my new blogpost, “Breakfast at HoneyBee Burgerhaus & Eatery,” as part of the Motoristang Pinoy food trip. Read it here.

With regards to its theme, I am again designing new theme for the blog. I am still working it and don’t know yet when can I apply the new theme for the blog.

I am currently testing the advertising service of the Project Wonderful. I should be doing this last month but my time was spent in fixing the problems of this blog (Learn Lessons with SELaplana) and my Songs Lyrics blog.

What’s Project Wonderful?

Just in case you still don’t know about “Project Wonderful”, it’s another advertising network where ad publishers earn money not in CPC or CPM but through the bidding system. The ad of the highest bidder will be displayed on the space you provided for the Project Wonderful network.

Project Wonderful on this Blog

I currently don’t have ideas on how can I optimize it. For now, I will just try the 468×60 space at the blog’s header which is formerly squatted by Bidvertiser’s ads. I earn $30 a month from bidvertiser and I just wish that with the Project Wonderful, I will earn the same or more than what I earned from Bidvertiser.

Well, I currently set the minimum bid price to $1. But I don’t know if the advertisers in the Project Wonderful network will spend $1 or more. I don’t even know if they will be interested in advertising on this blog. Anyway, let’s just try this out.

Update:

Advantage and Disadvantage of Project Wonderful

I was thinking earlier that the stats of my blog tracked by Project Wonderful might be helpful to me. However, BendzG tipped me that it’s actually one of the disadvantages of the Project Wonderful especially if I want privacy on the traffic stats of my blog.

Well, for now I didn’t find yet any problem with the stats.

Adult Ads

Just today, I noticed that there are 2 bidders who are bidding for the large square ad (Project Wonderful info, here) at my Naruto Shippuuden fan blog. I am glad few of the advertisers got interested with that spot. But what made me sad is the adult ad that showed up.

Well, the said blog contains talks about Naruto Hentai or Naruto Porn but it actually doesn’t contain any real adult content. Those are just talks about Naruto Hentai or Naruto Porn just like what we did about Pinay Scandal.

So, I don’t have other choice but to cancel the bid of that bidder.