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Hey Vlad-

Personally, I strongly dislike the Kontera (and Snap.com) ads. That’s my own taste and should have no impact on your decision as to include them here.

Do what you are comfortable with. If you like them, keep them. If you think they will get in the way, take them down.

ReveNews went through a similar experiment with these intellitext ads and I think they are mostly gone now. I imagine if you poll readers, they are going to say they are annoying as well.

That’s why I encourage people to use feed readers and to subscribe to great content such as what you present here!

By Sam Harrelson on Feb 23, 2007

I am with you Sam. I give them try to see what is their revenue potential. I whish they had an option where you can controll as to how many ads appearing per page, because sometimes they really go overboard.

By Vlad on Feb 23, 2007

Thanks for asking
I don’t mind them.

By 45n5 on Feb 23, 2007

You welcome Mark. Thanks for the feedback. I probably would not have asked if they were more profitable. I guess to make any god money on these or AdSense like ads your site need 1000 visitors per day. Oh well, maybe I shoudl save them for the future.

By Vlad on Feb 23, 2007

for what it’s worth, I’m with Sam on this one. I dislike any hover-over surprises that obstruct the page.

They make me realize that I am very active with my mouse pointer while reading and these things get in the way.

By Scott Jangro on Feb 23, 2007

like them better then all the ads you have on the right hand column. For me this is a lot less noisy, consumes less page real-estate, and overall has less eye pollution.

By bobo on Feb 24, 2007

Thank you both Bobo and Scott. I agree with you bobo about the sidebar as well. There goes revamting!

By Vlad on Feb 24, 2007

Vlad, i’m fine with the idea of the ads. I also think it depends on which side of the coin one is looking at it from.

Ads normally don’t perform as well in this niche especially since your visitors are mainly the dudes and dudettes from Affiliate Marketing. And thus, expect fewer click throughs. It seems Ads just don’t work well on marketers.

The same cannot be said if the ads are targeted in a different market to a different crowd. They are probably as less ad savvy and ad blind and that’s the reason why John Chow making money on his contextual ads.

If the majority reading his blog are affiliate marketers, I doubt he will be making as much.

By Leonard Chen on Feb 24, 2007

Leonard,

Thank you. I do have the lowest convetsion on any advertisin on this blog. Agee with you 100%.

By Vlad on Feb 24, 2007

I’ve recently set up Kontera on my blog and the earnings weren’t that impressive. I’ll probably leave it on for a while more so I can monitor the results and reach a decision.

I totally agree that they can go overboard with the number of ads. Way too many in a single post for me, sometimes.

By Maki on Mar 3, 2007

Maki,

When I started serving them some time they would serve one ad but other times more than 10. I was not impressed earnings either.

Thanks for stopping by!

By Vlad on Mar 3, 2007

Im using them on my tech seoblog vlad, but suspect I’ll take them down.

Just to echo the sentiments of others, I think they might well be fine for the non marketers of this world but my experience thus far isnt exactly fab - to be honest I didnt expect it to work too well, it was more a case of confirming a curiosity. Still, Im 16 cents richer than what I once was
If anything its taught me that it could be a good thing to use as an advertiser, mainly for driving traffic to higher performing end product pages.

By robwatts on May 28, 2007

Thanks Rob,

I had Kontera down for quiet some time, I am back to test the for another week or so due to a start up I am contemplating. I did not have much of a success with them in the past, so I do not see them lasting here for much longer.

Thanks for stopping by.

By Vlad on May 28, 2007

Hey Vlad,
Look at how much content you use and only implement kontera if you recieve at least 1000 uniques a day…Kontera is great if you recieve good traffic…take care…0.40 cents a click is good…

By Timon Weller of make money online ramblings on May 1, 2008