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35 Responses to “Kontera Control Plugin”

1. Judy Andrews (6 comments.) on June 27th, 2007 12:03 pm

   I want to thank-you for stopping by my site. Your plugin sounds like just what I want. I would be happy to test it, but I couldn’t download the plugin.

   Thanks,
   Jude


2. lucia on June 27th, 2007 2:26 pm

   Sorry! I need to remember to test *all* links My host has a new WEB FTP system that zips, but it also puts extra spaces in the url. I need to remember to get them out of every link I drop.


3. Judy Andrews (6 comments.) on June 27th, 2007 8:34 pm

   Okay I feel totally stupid and I’m really afraid to touch your code. I did manage to figure out where to put the kontera code in your plug in. Now if you could just advise me on the exact place to add something to keep it out of the sponsored section, I would be totally grateful… Thanks..Jude


4. Lucia on June 28th, 2007 8:26 am

   Don’t feel stupid! I’m writing posts to give better explanations and will edit this one to point to those. Right now, I described How to add categories.

   I’ll show more detail on how to add the Javascript in a bit. (Meanwhile, I sent you the screen shot. It just takes longer to do a formal post!)


5. S Peterson (6 comments.) on July 3rd, 2007 12:50 pm

   I have never seen a Kontera ad and don’t know what they are. Can you explain why the plugin, for those of us who are blind to the need for it?


6. Lucia on July 3rd, 2007 1:21 pm

   Ahh! In comments, I’ll give the “short” answer — but I think it will do.

   Kontera is a contextual link program. After you join, you install some javascript at your site. Then, the little script read the page, and transforms some of the words into links. You can recognize these because the Kontera links will always have double underlines.

   Since they appear right in the text, visitors tend to read them, and often they click if intersted. (When you put your mouse over the link, you’ll also see an informational popup box.)

   If the user clicks, the blogger gets paid money.

   So, it’s similar to Adsense in the sense that the links are created based on the content of the site. But, it’s different, in the sense that you don’t see adboxes. Instead, words in the text you write appear as links.

   The upside of Kontera:
   1) It’s very little work for the blogger. You install the javascript, you blog away.

   2) The links convert much better than Adsense. I make about $2 per thousand page views with Kontera (at my knitting blog) I make 1/10th that with adsense.

   The downside:
   1) Some bloggers think these links are distracting to regular readers. Since the blogger has very little control over where they appear, this can disrupt “conversations” in the blog and in comments.

   2) If you run sponsored posts, the sponsor will not permit these inside the post the sponsor pays for.

   So, a blogger who wants to run a mix of sponsored ads and their own posts needs to figure out someway to exclude the Kontera ads from the Sponsored posts.

   So, several of my friends and I discussed this, and we figured that we’d like the Kontera income on the *older* post but we’d like to exclude them on the newer posts and/or sponsored posts.

   That way, we can make money, not distract our regular readers and also not lose income from PPP, Review me or Sponsored Review articles.

   Hope that helps!


7. Eli (7 comments.) on July 8th, 2007 7:04 pm

   hello lucia! Thanks so much for this info and for this plugin.

   WIll try surely try this out!

   Thanks again!


8. Eli (7 comments.) on July 9th, 2007 4:03 am

   hi, btw, added you up in my blogroll..

   exchange if it’s no trouble?


9. Lucia on July 9th, 2007 5:36 am

   I added you! I hope the plugin works out for you.


10. Tricia (29 comments.) on July 9th, 2007 10:24 am

    I just downloaded your plugin. I couldn’t download it when you told me about it at the end of June because of my site troubles (CPU resource problems - still not fixed .. well they might be but the web host hasn’t gotten back to me about it lately!) and I had to concentrate on keeping my sites up and finding the problem.

    Anyway, I’ll be giving this a try in the next day or two. Crossing my fingers that it works the way we hoped it would.


11. maurizio (2 comments.) on July 11th, 2007 1:17 pm

    Hi, can you explain how you plugin works?
    I’d like to use it, but first I want to know how it works.
    I got rejected 2 times from PPP because of that. I tried using the span thing, but apparently it does not work as expected.
    Uh. maybe I’ve discovered why. Stupid editor convert ” to ” (or something like that).

    Anyway let me know. I will not test Kontera until PPP accept my last post..I don’t want to upset them.

    How do you test if your plugin works? My problem, for example, is that I don’t see ads, but other people sees them…maybe because I’m not in the US


12. Lucia on July 11th, 2007 1:35 pm

    Hi Maurizio,
    Even people in the US have trouble– still being outside the US where the ads don’t show will make it more difficult.

    I explained the problem here:
    Why you need Kontera Control

    You need to use nested “konabody” and “konafilter” tags.


13. maurizio (2 comments.) on July 11th, 2007 1:42 pm

    I’m using konafilter span tags inside the post.

    I have to do further test..anyway thanks for answering me.


14. lilian (3 comments.) on July 13th, 2007 3:22 am

    Hi Lucia
    PPP postie here! I couldn’t get my Kontera to work using the footer code but it finally work using this plugin.

    http://www.shupe.ca/articles/wordpress/plugins/kontera-dynamicontext/

    Then I discovered I cudn’t filter the ads from my PPP posts even after I added in the filter. I found your plugin and instal it and chosed the 30 days option. But eek, the ads are still there.

    I wonder if you have any suggestion to this problem?

    But anyway, thanks for the awesome plugin.


15. Lucia on July 13th, 2007 5:16 am

    Hi Lilian,
    Can you tell me more? Which category did you select to keep ads out 30 days? On which pages do they appear?
    Can you send screen shots so I can see how you have things set up?
    Lucia


16. lilian (3 comments.) on July 14th, 2007 12:54 am

    Lucia, thanks for responding. LOL, I tweaked and tweaked and now it is working. It is a fantastic plugin.


17. offgrid (1 comments.) on July 16th, 2007 1:42 pm

    I can’t figure this WordPress thing out at all ???

    http://solargrid.wordpress.com/

    Blogger seems much easier. I’m doing much better than $2 per every 1000 page views. I get about $1 for every 100 page views.


18. Lucia on July 16th, 2007 2:17 pm

    That’s great! Different niches get better or worse returns. Mine’s been knitting– which most expect to get poor returns. But comparing to other people’s returns, I seem to do ok.

    Seems that solar energy is a good niche for making money. If you are doing well with Adsense on a blogspot blog, and can’t get the hang of wordpress, I’d advise staying with blogspot.

    It’s never a good idea to kill a cash cow.


19. NSpeaks (2 comments.) on August 24th, 2007 2:50 pm

    What happens if a sponsored post is under multiple categories? How will it then filter it out? Will it affect its functioning?


20. Lucia on August 24th, 2007 3:19 pm

    NS: If the post is in multiple categories, it will supress the Kontera ads as long as it’s in the category that supresses them. So for example if a post is in “Sponsored Posts” and “Make Money” and you ask it to suppress ads in “Sponsored Posts”, there will be no ads in that that post.

    So, you can put things in as many categories as you like.

    What I do is suppress the ads in “Sponsored”, then use my hide categories plugin to make “Sponsored” a “hidden” category. Then, put the post in any other relevant categories. That way, the Kontera Control works, but the post never appears in an archive full of nothing but ads. Lots of advertisers kind of like this system!

    (You can still do any impost disclosure you like– I prefer to disclose. I just don’t want to create a big “sponsored” category with nothing but ads!)


21. macewan (4 comments.) on August 29th, 2007 5:25 pm

    If instead of using a drop down menu for the exclusion category they had check boxes you could click off all the PPP type postings.

    I signed up with Kontera today as a result of this post.


22. Lucia on August 29th, 2007 9:12 pm

    @macewan: True. But I only learned how to do the check box feature after I wrote this. (Plus, I need to look into an issue with earlier versions of Wordpress.)


23. macewan (4 comments.) on August 30th, 2007 10:26 am

    @Lucia,
    whoops, I hadn’t read the post and didn’t realize you had produced this plugin. Nice work. Very useful.


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26. NSpeaks (2 comments.) on September 7th, 2007 2:27 pm

    One more suggestion, can you implement post by post exclusion of Kontera ads?


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28. Robert MacEwan (2 comments.) on September 8th, 2007 10:23 am

    Maybe just adding a certain tag to signal excluded articles will work just as well.


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31. Tricia (29 comments.) on October 31st, 2007 4:29 pm

    Lucia your download link isn’t up to date on this page the zip file is the July one.


32. Lucia on October 31st, 2007 4:47 pm

    @Tricia: I know— the new plugin is here:
    Kontera Control for WP 2.3

    I’ll be sliding in the new urls after I get feed back from a few people. I also need to make some static pages for these.


33. Suzette (9 comments.) on November 7th, 2007 4:06 am

    Hi! I remembered your posts in PPP forum sometime ago about developing this plug-in. My posts got rejected twice even though I used the Spam comment to block out Kontera in the sponsored posts. I thought I tested few times and it looked fine, but still escaped and got caught by the reviewers.

    I come here to look for your plug-in specifically, and think you have a great blog and the features for the plug-in seems great! Will try out and see if it works. I’ve temporarily disabled my Kontera…


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35. fashionasia(new comment) on January 8th, 2008 12:39 pm

    hello…anybody knows where i can find such kontera control plug-in for blogspot users?!!!

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