As it turns out, one of my fav stumbling buddies is associated with Kontera Ad Network.  She sent an email and asked if I would be willing to post about their services, specifically a promotional offer going on right now.

I spent a bit of time over at the Kontera site and I liked what I saw.  In fact I liked it so much I signed up as a publisher.

The process was silly-easy and if you’re a WP kind of person then there is a plug-in ready to go and a breeze to install  Blogspot users will be equally pleased with the set up.

Kontera in text contentlink advertising

This excerpt from their Publishers Overview page describes the concept:

“ContentLinks are contextually relevant ads and information units dynamically linked to keywords on a publisher’s web page.  The keyword is linked to the most relevant and highest paying text ad from among Kontera’s thousands of advertisers.”

I’m sure you’ve seen sites that use this service.  Certain words have a double underline and hovering over the word brings up a balloon with an ad related to that text.

The promotion

Publishers who join Kontera by January 15 will get a cash bonus with their first payment.  In other words, upon reaching $75 in earnings, Kontera will round up the first payment to $100.  This means the folks at Kontera are going to throw in an extra 25 bucks.  Not bad.

The key to getting this deal is that you must enter through this portal:

http://www.kontera.com/ads-for-site/become-a-kontera-publisher?sr=100414&BD=35&pr=1000

Just so we’re clear – this is not an affiliate link that gets me anything.  I’m just helping a friend with a concept I think may be viable for helping to monetize a blog.

Your thoughts

Anyone who signs up with this should give a shout and let us know what you think.  Also, do you have a Kontera success story to share?  I’d love to hear it.