Adbrite Rocks the House. And Kontera Sucks.
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There you have it ladies and gentlemen the smoking gun. I took adbrite off of one of my sites for 3 days to try to test kontera. I had heard lots of good things from people like John Chow. And I also read on Randy Brown’s blog about how he was making some good money from it, so decided that I would take the chance and test it out.![[Kontera Technologies - ContentLink Publisher Center Reports] 1198445844484](http://MubinAhmed.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/konteratechnologies-contentlinkpublishercenterreports-1198445844484-1.jpg "[Kontera Technologies - ContentLink Publisher Center Reports] 1198445844484")
I took down the adbrite inline ads and installed the kontera code instead. I was told in my introductory email that it would take at least 2 WEEKS for kontera to fully optimise for my site and than my earnings would really start to come in.
Well thats just great, but 2 weeks is a RIDICULOUS amount of time to wait for the “specialist” in inline advertising crawl and optimise for my site. That means for 2 weeks I am supposed to sit around and do nothing. I may be lazy, I may be a sloth. BUT I EXPECT BETTER FROM YOU DAMMIT!
In comparison lets take a look at the adbrite earnings:
Now adbrite is mainly a CPM advertiser, that means that they pay you for every impression on their ads. They are great for sites like image hosts, file hosts, proxies, and the particular site I am running. While I am making some good money from adsense I am also making the same amount from adbrite, and will continue to rock it.
Kontera may be good for people that can cut deals with them and get paid on a monthly basis for a set amount. But when I am serving 100,000 ad impressions a day and you report 20,000 page impression it will piss me off.
When you should be indexing all my pages and alls you can manage to do is index my index page it will piss me off.
When you say one thing and than back track on it. It will piss me off.
Here they are saying that I CAN use adbrite along with Kontera:
![Google Mail - Kontera support [ ref-00D3Z8d.50063nOqO-ref ] - mubina@gmail](http://MubinAhmed.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/googlemail-konterasupportref-00d3z8d.50063noqo-ref-mubinagmail.com-1198447487718.png)
And than I get this email:
![Google Mail - RE- Re- Welcome to Kontera - watchblockbusters.com [ ref-00D3Z8d.50063nLj1-ref ] - mubina@gmail](http://MubinAhmed.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/googlemail-re-re-welcometokontera-watchblockbusters.comref-00d3z8d.50063nlj1-ref-mubinagmail.com-1198447201843.jpg)
So what do I think you should do??
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Boys Like Girls said:
Maybe reply to my comment in your last?
Or just tell us what the site is, could help…!
December 23rd, 2007 at 10:56 pm -
Randy Brown said:
Wow - i’m shocked..
Not only because Kontera did not do well, but just as shocked that Adbrite DID do well..
As you know Kontera works great for me on MY site, but what you may not know is that about a year ago i tried Adbrite and it totally sucked for me. I dumped it after a few days..
I guess it really depends on the type of site you’re running the ads on, and what works for one site may not work for another. Like i always say, try everything and keep what works.
December 24th, 2007 at 12:37 am -
Icelebpics.com said:
Kontera works really good! I’ve seen some great earnings. You’re not making money out of it just because of the In line text ads…I use to have them as well…but since i removed them…kontera has worked wonders for me…
I’d advice you to give it another shot[without the in line text ads this time] …ur net impressions is pretty good..best of luck…
Butts
December 26th, 2007 at 12:40 am -
1 Million in 365 Days said:
I was wondering how much you are making off Adbrite, besides the screenshots. I am a new blogger myself and I don’t know what to choose, Kontera or Adbrite at this point.
December 26th, 2007 at 2:28 am -
Thomas Sinfield said:
I haven’t made much from either program.
December 26th, 2007 at 4:17 am -
Francis Sim said:
Hmm… It seems like AdBrite is doing well for you. I wonder if it will be well for me on Orinity dot com. Hopefully, I can generate some income from AdBrite.
December 31st, 2007 at 6:36 am -
Alam said:
I don’t really like kontera, apparently john chow makes a grand a month from it though. When i tried it, i was only getting like 2-4 cents a click! and the reporting needs serious work too.
One question mubin:
You said in your post that adbrite is mainly CPM is that for adult ads or something? cos everytime i go to check my account i never see any CPM ads only CPC…
December 31st, 2007 at 6:57 pm -
Dean Saliba said:
I use Adbrite and have found it earns me less than Clicksor!
December 31st, 2007 at 7:17 pm -
Brad said:
Hey Mubin,
here are my statsimpressions 21,634
clicks 43
CTR 0.20%
earnings $1.79Do you think it would be worth while to switch to adbrite?
January 14th, 2008 at 4:20 am -
mubin said:
Brad, if you have content on that site you should definitly put some in-text advertising on that sucker.
January 14th, 2008 at 10:50 am -
Kris-HowToIpod Blog said:
Hey, I’m getting good ctr with kontera but the cpc is very bad around 4 to 5 cents a click. What cpc are u getting with adbrite Mubin?
February 19th, 2008 at 1:32 pm -
Joel said:
I tried both Kontera and adbrite, then switched to contextgain (www.doclix.com), and I’m now earning $6 eCpm.
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:13 pm -
berserk said:
Where are the links, dude???
May 27th, 2008 at 8:39 pm -
Jacker said:
We had the worst experience with Kontera. Thei payouts started dropping in Jan, and when we decided to leave they gave us a higher revenue share but cut the amount of inventory so we ended my making less money from more traffic becuase Kontera is exclusive. On top of that, they refused to let us out of our agreement early and never paid out last check. I can’t think of a worse experience.
September 16th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
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