I’ve seen a lot of sites that have Kontera link ads. They’re the links within blogs that bring up a little advert whenever you hover over them. For an established blogger I think they’re a good idea, but I find it incredibly annoying when I run my mouse over a Kontera link and it brings up an advert when I don’t want it to. It disturbs my reading and I’m surprised that many of the top pro bloggers use Kontera. It must be because it generates decent revenue.

The problem I have with even thinking about Kontera is that those links could easily annoy new readers. Once I’m established and can get away with the sort of things people like John Chow do, then I will consider implementing Kontera.

John Chow has a link on his site where he says that he has a partnership with Kontera, who normally only accept sites with 500,000 page views a month. That’s not going to be me any time soon, so I signed up for Kontera so I could learn a bit more about it.

This blog will likely not be accepted, but if it is I want to see what Kontera has to offer before I even think about using it. At this early stage I obviously want to make money from my blog, but I don’t want readers to be scared away at the first instance. Kontera adds clutter to a blog – it’s clutter that makes money, but it’s still clutter. Thanks for the offer John, but not right now.

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