How To Add Kontera’s ContextLink™ To Your Blog
Kontera. The name is quite like Pantera, so it sounds promising :) Kontera is a provider of in-text advertising solutions and their flagship product is called ContextLink™. I got an email from the Kontera team that my site was approved to their ad system. I was quite surprised, since my blog does not meet their requirements. I don’t have 500,000 page impression per month (well, at least not now :D ). My blog is also just about over 1 months old and has merely 2 page impressions a day. Do you want to know how I got approved?
I’m a subscriber of Joel Comm’s newsletter. He’s an expert on AdSense and he has also written a best-seller called “The AdSense Code“. And of course, he’s promoting lots of different products thru his mailing list.
I usually read what Joel has to say and thanks to that, I didn’t miss this good offer. Or maybe be “gift” is a better word. Since Joel has been around doing Internet business since 1995, he has made contacts with people running big businesses. This time he had hooked up with Kontera and made a deal for his subscribers: everyone could apply for Kontera and get approved!
I thought to give it a try and went to sign up. After 22 hours I got an approvement email! Look at me smiling now :D I don’t know if Joel still has this offer available, but join his list and maybe there will be similar good offers coming!
Here’s a guide on ContextLink™ for WordPress users:
- Download Kontera DynamiContext Plugin from shupe.ca. The version I downloaded is 1.3.
- Upload the plugin to your /wp-content/plugins folder and unzip it.
- Login as admin to WP and click the “Plugins” tab. Activate Rodney’s Kontera DynamiContext Plugin.
- Next thing is to configure the plugin. Go to Options -> DynamiContext. Now find the approval email you got from Kontera. There’s a code snippet there:
<script type="text/javascript">
var dc_UnitID = xx;
var dc_PublisherID = xx;
var dc_AdLinkColor = 'xx';
var dc_adprod='xx';
</script>
<script src="http://kona.kontera.com/javascript/lib/KonaLibInline.js" type="text/javascript"></script> - Copy the code and paste it to the text field in the DynamicContext config page. Click the “Update options” button.
- Congrats! You’re done!
You should see the links at midnight PST. If you have problems, check that your WP template has the following code in the footer.php (thanks shupe.ca!):
<?php do_action('wp_footer'); ?>
As I’m finishing this post the ContextLinks are already working! I will write a follow-up after I have tested the links for a while.
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