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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!

Below, I have a screen-shot of very short post I from my test blog. The post content consists of one sentence “This is the content”.

Now, supposed I added <span name=”konafilter”> before “This is the content.” and closed the post with </span>.

Those tags would tell Kontera to keep ads out of the area outlined by the red box above. But here’s the problem: Kontera would then feel free to include links everywhere else.

How is this a problem you ask? There isn’t anything else in the post to link, you say?

Wrong!

Look carefully. See the blue line that surrounds the whole post? PPP doesn’t permit any additional ads inside the blue box. More importantly, even in my barebones, spare test blog template, there is a little bit of text outside the red box and inside the blue box.

What text? Well, notice the date? June 29,2007? Notice Filed under Uncategorized? Leave a Comment? That’s text.

It’s text the blogger forgets about because it’s always there. It doesn’t seem worth linking, but…. Kontera thinks it’s ok to link that. And when you’ve left so little to link, Kontera sometimes links it! Not often, but sometimes.

Likely as not, if you review your posts, you will notice there is a lot more text outside the “protected” area than I have at my test blog. Does yours post say “Buy me a beer”? Watch out — beer could become a link to Budweiser!

So, how does my plugin, Kontera Control, protect against this?

When I wrote Kontera Control, I organized it so that the first filter tag is placed before the title of every post — that is, it is located at the top of the blue box. I then organized so the closing filter tag is at the end of your actual post- that is, at the bottom of the blue box.

That means, I start by telling Kontera to keep ads out of every post.

After I do this, I need to give Kontera permission to put ads in post content where I want to see ads. To do this, I put one like this at the beginning of posts: <span name=”konabody”> I put this where I want to stop giving permission for ads: </span>.

Naturally, I only insert the “permission” tags in posts a that aren’t sponsored!

By writing the plugin this way, Kontera will put ads only inside the red box… which is good! In fact, unless you add “KonaBody” tags to the sidebar, Kontera won’t put ads there either. This is because if even one “konabody” tag appears on the page, Kontera will only put ads in regions where you give permission. That’s the way Kontera interprets those tags.

Anyway, now you know how Kontera Control keeps ads out of the post itself. PPP will be happy, and I’ll get paid for my sponsored posts. If you use the plugin, you’ll get paid too! (See the link in the top of my right hand column. I’m keeping that current.)

Now, if you use Blogger, you can’t use my plugin. But, you can use this information- provided you are willing to edit your template.

What you will want to do is this: in your template, place the <span name=”konafilter”> tag right after the first <body> tag near the top of your template. Then put a </span> tag just before the Kontera javascript (which you place just before the </body> tag. )

Now, when you write posts: If you want to include the Kontera tags, start you post with this: <span name=”konabody”> Finish with this: </span>. If don’t want ads, do nothing.

Should work like a charm.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 1:44 pm and is filed under Kontera, KonteraControl, Monetize, Plugins, WordPress. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.