I had installed Kontera on DragonBlogger.com last week and let it sit active for five full days seeing how it would fare against AdSense on the same blog. This was a big week for DragonBlogger.com as I had over 3000 unique visits in those 7 days which is a high peak for me. How did Kontera fare against my Google Adsense you ask?
Earnings for September 16th – 22nd
AdSense:Â $1.79
Kontera:Â $.09
Thats right, on this blog Kontera earned only 9 cents for me over 5 days. The really unusual thing is that on my poetry blog Wanderer Thoughts Kontera earned me $1.12 vs AdSense $2.31 but when you add up the totals it shows a major difference:
Total all blogs in 7 days:
AdSense: $10.80
Kontera: $1.21
Since Kontera was doing so poorly on DragonBlogger.com I have decided to remove it, but since it did earn 50% as much as Google AdSense on my poetry blog, I left it in place on that blog and others to give it some more time. Kontera can make money on certain blogs but it does not appear to be a good fit for my DragonBlogger.com at this time. There were several other factors as well that influenced me to remove Kontera.
- I received numerous feedback on users not liking Kontera links in post (they are distracting, popups are low quality)Â I did get a few “I don’t mind it”, but these were much fewer.
- When I have links I really want to emphasize, these are lost amid the Kontera links and even though Kontera links are a different color and double underlined, it weakens your true links.
- When my page loads there is a disgusting white flash after it loads and then refreshes with Kontera links on top. This white flash is so annoying and noticeable it drove me nuts.
Thank you for your patience with dealing with Kontera on my blog while I tested the service.
-Dragon Blogger
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September 24th, 2009 at 11:21 am
I think kontera is very intrusive and might be annoying to the readers whereas adsense is non intrusive anf pays better. Kontera works if the pageviews are huge
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September 24th, 2009 at 11:21 am
I think kontera is very intrusive and might be annoying to the readers whereas adsense is non intrusive and pays better. Kontera works if the pageviews are huge.
gautam hans´s last blog ..Blog Engage – A Social Media Site for your Blog Promotion
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September 24th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Thanks for the expiriment. I have thought about Kontera but I have heard that it is not very effective and you just demonstrated that again. I am sticking with adsense and direct ad spots at this time.
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September 25th, 2009 at 1:53 am
Yeah I guess you’ve done the right thing because Kontrera links are somewhat annoying.
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September 25th, 2009 at 10:32 am
My experience has been that Konnterra earns about 20% of what Adsense earns on my pages. The main problem is that the ads do not seem to be very well matched. I have never had a complaint about the links, though.
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September 25th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Check out Chango. Search targeted so keywords and ads are really relevant and pay well, and ads only show to users arriving from a search engine so your regular readers don’t notice anything different. Full disclosure, the company was started by a friend, but it really is a better way to make money in-text than Kontera. If you check it out, write about it, I like the way you did the comparison.
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September 25th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
I will sign up and check them out and do a review on Chango in the near future.
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September 27th, 2009 at 8:06 am
I don’t have kontera on my blog, but I think, if you want to make money with them, you have to have a niche for less internet savvy people. They would click on the kontera link because they think that it is a link.
Dalirin from Make Money Online´s last blog ..Blogging Smartly To Make Money On The Internet
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September 27th, 2009 at 10:03 am
I agree, it has its place especially for bloggers who just want a “set it” and forget it way of making earnings. I imagine very high traffic blogs can bring in some decent earnings with it.
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November 25th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Thx for the well thought out and written comparison. I just took Kontera off my blog.
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November 26th, 2009 at 10:44 am
No problem, you might want to check out my post about all blog earning companies I have tried: http://www.dragonblogger.com/top-companies-i-use-to-earn-money-blogging/ you might find it helpful as well.
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December 7th, 2009 at 1:58 am
why not try info links instead of kontera, both are pretty much the same and the only difference is that info links pays atleast 5 times more than kontera
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December 7th, 2009 at 3:32 am
Thank you for sharing the results of your experiment – that’s always welcome.
I am not sure why they should be one against another – you can have both on your blog.
Anne @ b6s.net´s last blog ..My Best Blog-Only Marketing Tips
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December 7th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Of course you can have both on your blog, but lets assume that a single user only clicks one or the other. You would prefer to steer them to the one with the higher payout. Also, too much content ads and you can deface the appearance of your blog.
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December 7th, 2009 at 6:30 am
When I trialled Kontera vs Adsense on one of my personal blogs about a year ago, Kontera slightly out-performed Adsense. I think in that case it came down to my Adsense ads not being optimally placed.
Regards,
Karl
Karl Foxley@SEO Company in Derby´s last blog ..13 Ways To Find Highly Profitable Niche Markets and Online Trends!
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March 21st, 2010 at 8:55 am
And even though I get considerably less traffic than you, I find that even limiting the number of contextual links helps to get a more narrower focused ad.
Infolinks’ service is a much better service for me based on this alone.
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