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GoodBye Google Sandbox!

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

I found the secret to getting out of the Google sandbox: Write a plugin others want!

I’m now getting my first visits from Google, see?


My very first hits from Google come from people who are specifically looking for the Kontera Control plugin. They don’t know what to call it, but you can see “Kontera” in the search.

Even more importantly, with regard to knowing I’m out of the sandbox, once Google noticed people clicked on my site after searching for my Kontera Control plugin, Google started to return my blog for other non-Kontera related searches. (Heck, I’ve gotten vistors for “John Chow banned”!

I’m out of the sandbox! Whooo hooo!

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Why You Need Kontera Control to Control Kontera!

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

I know you’ve all read how to filter Kontera ads over at Courtney Tuttle’s blog. You include the Kontera javascript in the footer. Then, when writing Sponsored posts, you just insert <span name=”konafilter”> at the beginning of your post and insert </span> at the end. These are called filter tags, and using them this way sounds easy enough.

It seems easy, but unfortunately, that method doesn’t always work. Posts are rejected… sometimes. Yet, somehow, the tags worked when you wrote your posts and most of the time they continue to work.

So, you wonder, what happened? Why do the tags sometimes work but sometimes fial?

Then, you throw your hands up in the air and stop including Kontera ads; you lose that nice passive Kontera revenue (which is, frankly, much better than Adsense revenue — at least at my blogs.)

Now, I’ll explain why the method Court and Derrick describe doesn’t quite work; I’ll also explain why my Kontera Control Plugin fixes the problem for people using WordPress. Then, I’ll tell Blogger users how to modify their templates so they can run Kontera ads too! (more…)

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Kontera Control Plugin

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Do you need to keep Kontera ads out of sponsored posts? Want to keep them off new posts? Willing to be a guinea pig?

If you act today, you can be the first to download Kontera Control, my new WordPress plugin. (Of course, it’s beta.)

It will let you:

  • Keep Kontera ads out of new posts for the number of days you specify. I’m planning on setting this to 3 days to mostly keep them off the index.php page.
  • Keep Kontera ads out of one user specified category forever. I’m planning to use this for Sponsored programs that require you to maintain posts unchanged forever (like Sponsored Reviews or Review Me.)
  • Keep Kontera ads out of one user specified category for a specified number of days. I’m planning to use this for programs that require you to keep the posts unchanged for a finite number of days- like Pay Per Post which requires posts be maintained 30 days. (I’m planning to set ads to display after 60 days.)
  • Decide whether to add Kontera Ads to comments at all, and if you do, to only include the Kontera ads after a specified number of days. I’m let the Kontera ads show after 5 days.
  • Only loads the Kontera Javascript when Kontera ads are to be shown. (This speeds loading but also prevents accidental appearance of ads!)

The plugin also keep Kontera ads out of the sidebar and blog header. Later on, I’ll explain some “features” associated with using the “konafilter” and “konabody” tags. Read it and you’ll learn why you do want to use my plugin to avoid accidentally showing a Kontera ad in a blog post. (In the process, I’ll explain how you may wish to hand code in Blogger or any blogging platform that can’t use my plugin.)

Download Kontera Control and upload to your plugins folder. Activate. Visit Options=> Kontera Control and set your options. (Detailed directions are now available: How to use Kontera Control.).

Once this is going, you can make more money using my new plugin!


Update: Thank you Judy for your questions! I wrote two articles to help WordPress Newbies to figure this out.

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