Kontera In-text Ads August 13, 2008
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I’m currently trying in-text contexual advertising out via Kontera’s publisher platform and I like the way that the ads are shown and they aren’t obstrusive at-all like you see with ads that are all over such as pop-ups as a prime example of being quite obstrusive. I also managed to get into CPXInteractive for one of my sites and I’ll be testing those guys out to see if I can squeeze anymore revenue out of my sites. Though a question did come to mind, “could I Kontera’s tags on my other sites?” or for a more relevant term, “could I use Kontera on more than one site”, as at the application side of things when you sign up; you only enter one website. However I’ve sent off Kontera an email to answer this question and I’ll post a follow up on this entry of my bloggin’.
As for CPXInteractive, I’ve had to confirm that I own a website by adding ‘the’ email address I signed up with to my website or a seperate file containing my email, as evidence that I’m in control of it. Hopefully I’ll receive a reply by today with login confirmtion so I can start placing their ads up. However it looks good and I’ve heard some good stuff about CPXInteractive as they are quite large as well - hopefully they will top my number one revenue source and along with Kontera we should have a great relationship to say the least.
CPX Interactive - Update
Today, I got accepted and my account was activated after waiting a few a days for CPX Interactive to review my website. However, later on today (Friday 15 2008) my account was deactivated without any notice at-all as to why. I can’t see why they would disable or ‘deactivate’ my account so ubruptly without the shortest notice via email or phone. At least with other ad publishing networks, they send you an email as to why your account has been deactivated.
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So first impressions haven’t gone to well, now the time is to find out why they have deactivated my account and if it’s an accident, then I’ll get along fine with it, however if it isn’t and they give some stupid reason, then I guess I won’t be recommending them but the other way around from my own experience. However that is the thing, they reviewed my website and after a few hours, activated my account, then as soon as I place their ads up, bam, I get my account deactivated. Well, I’ll see what they say next however this hasn’t gone terribly well.
The funny thing is, is that they are using the same control panel and design as RightMedia, who I’ve signed up with however conversion rates weren’t going to well with them, so I dropped them. - Whether they are the same company or what, I cannot tell however they do have the same control panel. Everything down to the support email option is the same. Hm. Something real interesting to look and up and think about.
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Okay, I recieved a ‘reply’ or a reasoning as to why my account was disabled, and they assessed that I wasn’t getting enough traffic and the limit was 30,000 unique visitors. However sitewide on this website of mine which I had put their ads sitewide, it does recieve over 30,000 unique visitors (As of this month) and they assessed that it did not in the period of a couple hours with myself having these ads up. All I can say is that they aren’t very specific in monitoring traffic over a period of time; instead you have to have the right surge of visitors at the time you have their ads up. Oh well. There is a whole list of publisher networks to try. - Though the cookie in the jar would be either Yahoo Publisher Network! or either Microsoft adCenter Publisher which are both convieniently in beta and are only offering US website owners. The hunt goes on. However lest we forget Kontera, I love their ad system and I love the way the ads appear, they don’t look cheap like other ad publisher networks, here take this as an example:
Kontera
Ad Brite
Sorry for the low resolution. However I think Kontera’s looks much more inviting and much better visually and ads seems to be more relevant to the subject. Time will tell how things work out and hopefully it will be a thumbs up.