Kontera is a in-content text link advertising program. I hope you guys know what I am talking about because it was on Balkhis until last week. This basically take the keywords in your content and make it a hyper link which will open in a tooltip that will show an ad and if the user likes the ad, they will click, and you get money. Or they will accidently click, and you will make money. But the money in this case is not enough for me to keep going.

Why am I giving up? Read on…

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Kontera was causing my site to load slow. I don’t know if you have seen even when the site loads, In the status bar it will still show loading dc.kontera… Which was very annoying because the site would never load. Often times especially…[Read the Full Post]

This post is going to be relatively short compared to others. I am going to share my experience with adsense and what methods helped me get the best results. For those of you who don’t know what adsense is, you seriously need help. It is a money making opportunity offered by Google.

As you guys know there are different sizes that adsense comes in and you can use it all. There is a policy in adsense that you can only display 3 ads on one page. Even if you have the codes, they won’t display on the page, and just leave a blank space there. Well so how exactly do you monetize adsense with those 3 ads.

You need to embed the ads in the site. For example, make it seem like that it is a part of a content. For instance, if your site’s background is white, then make the adsense’s background white, and the text color the same as your original text color. This will increase your chances of getting more clicks because it is harder for people to distinguish them.

Which banner ad size works best? In my experience 336 x 280px google adsense size gives the best outcomes. They provide the best outcome when they are toward the top and are embedded in the content. Ad locations for the blog would be post pages in the post if you are putting. It is a complete waste if you put it in the sidebar because you would hardly ever get clicks. I do get a few clicks at the top of the site with the image ads 468 x 60, but When I put it in the middle of the post It didn’t work out well.

Another thing I would suggest that adsense is not a very big money maker on webmaster blogs. They would work very well on content sites that are not targetting webmasters because webmasters don’t tend to click on ads. Industries such as Real Estate, Mortgage, Loan, Finance tend to have really high CTR so you are going to get good returns.

I just wanted to share this little excerpt with the users who are trying to embed adsense in their sites. Chetan this was inspired by your question ;).

Can money buy everything? Can it buy you? Can it buy your identity? Not mine. Definately not. There are some things that I would not sell for money and my identity is one of those thing. I recently visited a webmaster forum which I used to be very active in, and was shocked by the theme. They just sold the entire theme design for sponsorship. How lame is that?

For a few thousand bucks, you are going to give away your own identity? It is just very sad to see that. If you are wondering which forum I am talking about, Yes it is Namepros. They sold theirself out, and along with the forum, they sold out all the loyal users who have been supportive to namepros. I have been a member for over 3 years now, and It was very disappointing to see that the administration will be so cheap.

They sold off the entire theme design to this guy named Rick Latona for a certain period of time. I don’t know when it is going to revert back, but here is a screenshot:

This will just drive your users away if you ask my opinion. Now, I have lost the respect I had for that community’s administration. If you want to be respectable in front of your user’s eyes than don’t ever do that. What are your thougs on this? Would you ever sell your site’s branding off for a certain period of time for some money?

Ever wonder, why people are not buying ads on your website? I know I used to as well when I first started, but It all went away as I begin to understand the psychology. I always wondered what can I do to maximize my sales. I tried several ways and failed, but I learnt from my failure alot and these are the important key points.

Lets establish this first, that your website will not sell ads if you don’t have quality content, High traffic, Credibility and SERPs. You need to wait out in the beginning and keep your ads sale limited and work on quality content of your website. If you are thinking that by starting a blog or a website will get you money quick that is wrong. Because you won’t get anything. You have to work on establishing the site first before you start making serious money.

Quality Content builds slowly. Especially in blogs because you will need a number of quality posts to be classified as a quality blog. Same with credibility. If a person say one thing good doesn’t mean he will always be right. Therefore credibility comes with time as well. Same goes to popularity and traffic. Now establishing that you have all of the above

You should do the following to sell ads quickly..

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Before I go on with this post, I would like to say I hope everyone who celebrates Easter had a nice Easter. My easter turned out to be my make up day where I catched up on my sleep as I slept about 12 hours.

Lets go back to the topic. How many of you have affiliate ads on your websites. I know I see alot of the people have affiliate ads on their blogs and their websites. Alot of bloggers consider that smart way to display the ads is by hiding the url completely, or encrypting the url so the user doesn’t see that the link is an affiliate link.

Alot of people find a better solution to this problem and that is by just adding JavaScript ads. If you use Commision Junction, Azoogle Ads , or many others… you will see that there is an option to display link through Javascripts. Alot of people tend to choose that option why because it says that it helps them keep a better track of you. I dont know how many can prove that, but there is certainly disadvantages to that and that is why I believe that is not the smart way to go.

First of all, we all know that JavaScripts are not supported in alot of computers because the user never bothered to install it. Second, JavaScripts increase the loading time of your website, and lastly it can really screw up your website in different browsers. Therefore I believe that users should use the html code method the affiliate ads have. Why do I prefer that? Because you have full control over the ad that you are displaying as in you can change the image if you like. You can use the url with a text rather than with an Image.

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