My experience with Kontera
I just signed up with Kontera and they promised to get back in two working days. I will keep you updated on my experiences with Kontera as it happens.
frontierindia.net has no doubt a very good growth since it was started in April 2007. Its 193,465 on Alexa Ranking if it means anything to you, but i need to tell. It definitely does not have 500,000 impressions per month needed by Kontera. When i registered, it did have an option of below 500,000 per months impression, also since they said they will get back in 2 days means they might be accepting websites with less impressions. In 2 days we will know.
Update: March 28, 2008
It’s been barely 4 hours since I filled out the form and presto! I get the confirmation. Some of the key points they tell me:
1) Kontera’s team will create a unique JavaScript tag, which we will email to you within 2 business days.
2) We ask that you leave us up for a minimum of 30 days. We will work on a month-to-month basis, until we mutually agree to a longer term.
3) We pay on Net 30 terms with a minimum of $100 accrued. For example, January earnings are sent around March 1st (either check or electronic transfer). Kontera will split the revenue equally; 50% revenue share.
It answer’s some key questions on the revenue share and mode of payment. The point number 2) is important. It could be publishers take off the codes before 30 days for no revenues or Kontera has its own tracking systems for the site statistics to decide to go with the publisher or not.
Update: 31 March 2008
The code instruction came. I downloaded the Kontera Wordpress plugin from here. Its installed, I have put up the publisher code and now its running.
The customer support till now has been excellent.
Update: 02 April 2008
The first day results are out. Before tell you that, Kontera results are known the next day. You will not have real time results. I had asked the support about it, here is what he said “The reporting of your metrics has a one day delay and we apologize about that..”
frontierindia.net had got Net (kontera) impression of 536, 5 clicks and revenue of $0.26 for 31 May 2008. The impressions obviously do not tell you the actual impression of the daily views of frontierindia.net as a whole. There has been no decline in my google ads revenue. it has neither effected the average page views or other competitors for clicking like the gallery.
I had asked if i can use same codes in my other sites, here is what kontera replied ” As for putting your tag up across multiple sites we suggest for tracking purposed that you have a tag made for each one. I have put in the request for additional tags which will run through the same approval process and will be issued in a couple of days. ”
April 03, 2008
In my opinion, kontera does not pay much. For example 11 Clicks and just 33 cents. Compare it to Google Adsense, 2 clicks and 65 cents.
More as it happens…
