Text link advertisements are very much popular in blogger community. If you want some other way of monetization than Google Adsense or Chitika or affiliate then you can try Kontera – Pay Per Click text link ads on your blog or website. Kontera is a popular text link advertisement (content advertisement) network thru which you can monetize from your blog. Once you will install Kontera on your blog, some of your blog’s keyword will convert into a link where visitor will see an advertisement after hovering mouse on that link. There are other popular text link advertisement network as well like Infolinks but in this post, I will show you how to use Kontera.
First of all register yourself on Kontera to get the control panel access. Sometimes Kontera checks the website traffic for approval but you can use below mentioned link to get yourself successfully registered with low traffic as well.
Install Kontera code on Website or Blog
Once you will login with the Email address and password, you will be taken to the Kontera Dashboard. On Dashboard, you can see some reports, graphs etc. First of all, you will have to install the Kontera code on your website to let Kontera show the links in your content. To add the code on your blog, go to “Kontera Setup” tab on navigation bar. You can choose from different platforms but I would suggest you to go for “website” as that is applicable for everyone. Now select the color of link as per your theme. Now you can paste the generated code on your theme templates’ footer before </body> tag. Done! After couple of minutes, you can see some text on your site converted into a link.
How To Track Clicks and Income thru Kontera
Kontera is having a dedicated tracking and report page which is nothing but the first page where you landed after login. On navigation , you can see “Reports” tab. Click on that to see revenue and clicks track for your Kontera implementation. Summary report will show you “Income in last 7 days” and it will also show you “Last 30 days income” in a graphical way. Summary report of 7 days income have lot many other details like Impressions, CTR, Number of Clicks, Income thru Affiliate (under Additional column) and eCPM. You can click on “Custom date Period” to see detailed report for a particular period. You can track the best performing keyword for your website on Kontera under “Keyword Report” and best performing URL under “URL Report” tab.
Payment and Make Money Online thru Kontera
Minimum payout on Kontera is $50. You can change the payout level to some higher value on “My Account / Payment Method” page. Payment type available on Kontera are PayPal, Wire Transfer and Check. You can choose any of them as per your choice.
