
Kontera is the ad network that provides those little double underlined links that you’ll see scattered around this blog. Quite a few people don’t like them because of the pop-up nature of the ads, personally I’ve never had a problem with them. Perhaps even more importantly as somebody who uses Kontera to make money I’ve found that they have had no impact on my Adsense earnings so it’s a pretty good partnership to go ahead with.
One issue I have had with Kontera though is the payment methods available, or should that be method. For many months they’ve been sending me Dollar checks, this is bad not any because of the horrific exchange rate (can’t blame Kontera for that though) but because I get stung every time I pay in a foreign cheque. The good news is that not only can you now get your Kontera earnings paid direct into your bank account, but they’ll also transfer it in your native currency. For anyone earning more than a few hundred dollars a month with Kontera the savings are going to stack up and besides you’ll also be getting payment earlier. No more waiting for a cheque to turn up.
The new service is available to Kontera publishers in Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom so if you are currently getting a dollar cheque I suggest you check it out. The bank transfer form is available for download from here.
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I’ve flirted with the idea of Kontera - the only that’s stopped me is I was told you have to have a certain amount of visitors monthly, which I don’t think I have. Oh well.
Kontera used to be quite tough to get in but now it’s not such an issue now, they are much more accepting of smaller publishers!