{"id":2923,"date":"2011-03-17T00:42:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2011-03-17T00:42:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T16:42:07","slug":"received-my-kontera-cheque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/received-my-kontera-cheque.html","title":{"rendered":"Received my Kontera cheque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After such a long wait I finally got my first pay cheque from Kontera! It is not much just slight above the threshold of US$50 which is the minimum required for a payout. I started trying out Kontera since May 2009 so finally as of March 2011, it took a total of 22 months to accumulate the payout amount! Whoosh! That&#8217;s a really long time!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janleow.com\/imgs\/wp\/kontera_cheque2011pix.jpg\" alt=\"Received my Kontera cheque\" title=\"Received my Kontera cheque\"><\/p>\n<p>I could of course plug into my most heavily trafficked web site but I didn&#8217;t want to dilute my major earner which was Adsense. So I just plug it into this personal blog of mine plus various other minor websites.<\/p>\n<p>So if it took 22 months that averages out to about US$2.27 per month. Very excitingly slow! On top of that, I&#8217;m also trying out the other monetizing advertisement such as Infolinks, Advertlets, Nuffnang, Bidvertiser and Chitika too!<\/p>\n<p>Chitika was suppose to be simpler because all you needed was just a US$10 threshold to get the payout. Unfortunately the ads will show on a limited countries so it ended up pretty slow.<\/p>\n<p>Although I signed up the various advertisements affiliates on different periods, based on all the above minor ones, Kontera was the first to hit pay dirt. <\/p>\n<p>This is a rough tally and not very accurate because they are not comparing based on the same period, since the accumulation is oh, so slow until the grass grows on my tiled porch in my house so it doesn&#8217;t really matter. You can say it has been about <u>2 years or more<\/u> and these are the results. I&#8217;m not too shy to show these figures since the accumulation is just so, so, so slow!<\/p>\n<p>Here goes:<br \/>\nAdvertlets = RM87.48<br \/>\nNuffnang = RM31.04<br \/>\nInfolinks = US$18.21<br \/>\nKontera = US$50.07<br \/>\nChitika = US$14.82<br \/>\nBidvertiser = US$0.22<\/p>\n<p>Think you can lived off from the above figures from your personal blogging website?<\/p>\n<p>Dream on man!<\/p>\n<p><?php include '..\/support-files\/nav\/advertisement.shtml';  ?> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After such a long wait I finally got my first pay cheque from Kontera! It is not much just slight above the threshold of US$50 which is the minimum required for a payout. I started trying out Kontera since May 2009 so finally as of March 2011, it took a total of 22 months to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/received-my-kontera-cheque.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Received my Kontera cheque<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[22,101,111,162],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1bS5F-L9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2938,"url":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/kontera-vs-infolinks-in-text-ads-comparison.html","url_meta":{"origin":2923,"position":0},"title":"Kontera vs Infolinks &#8211; In-Text Ads Comparison","author":"Jan","date":"18 March 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I received a surprise and stern mail from Kontera. They noted that I have Infolinks which is a competing in-text advertising company. It seems according to their T&Cs that I am only allowed to display in-text context link ads from one company only. If I don't remove the competing company\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Website&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Website","link":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/category\/website"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2980,"url":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/revamped-my-homepage.html","url_meta":{"origin":2923,"position":1},"title":"Revamped my Homepage","author":"Jan","date":"4 April 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I decided it was time to change the homepage of my website. It wasn't very functional with all the various blog post aggregating onto a very long, long snippet of post. Sure, perhaps it is good at catching the long tail keywords but I don't find in my analytics very\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Website&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Website","link":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/category\/website"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2944,"url":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/removed-infolinks-code.html","url_meta":{"origin":2923,"position":2},"title":"Removed Infolinks Code","author":"Jan","date":"21 March 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally removed Infolinks code since it conflicts with Kontera T&Cs. I had to remove the related tags as well when Kontera send me another mail saying that has to be removed too. I was still thinking of testing out Infolinks somehow. 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The hit was rather severe causing both my authoritative guide website\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Website&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Website","link":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/category\/website"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1392,"url":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/not-earning-enough-from-nuffnang.html","url_meta":{"origin":2923,"position":4},"title":"Not earning enough from Nuffnang ?","author":"Jan","date":"1 April 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Just received this notice from Nuffnang warning their affiliates from clicking on their own ads. Like any affiliate programs such as Google Adsense, Advertlets, Chitika, Kontera, and many more out there, they have very clear guidelines about clicking on your own ads for generating a higher income for themselves. 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