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Running Kontera – Adsense together
by Fernando Hal (cheatad.com)

If you are starting out making money from your website and wondering whether you can run Kontera together with Google Adsense, the answer is, Yes, publishers are allowed to run Kontera ContentLink Ads together with Google Adsense on the same page.

Google prohibits advertisers from running Adsense with competing ads that look similar with Adsense ad links units, while Kontera is a contextual text-link advertising which adds hyperlinks to your site contents. Even though both are contextual based, they don’t look similar and so is allowed to run together.

However, I personally feel that it’s pointless. Kontera provides only a tiny fraction of what Adsense pays, actually it’s ridiculous to add another annoyance to your visitors. (Read Kontera sucks)

Here are some links of discussions about running Kontera – Adsense together.

• Kontera and Adsense – Google Response (Digital Point Forums)
  ” This is very surprising as I thought Kontera was now allowed… “
• Why Google Adsense and Kontera ContentLinks are a Perfect Combination (Kontera Blog)
  “…our latest publisher survey showed that an amazing 95% of our top earners and over 70% of our bloggers use Kontera and AdSense”
• AdSense and Kontera… finally allowed – for small publishers too! (Digital Point Forums)
  “A few weeks ago, Google cleared this up and stated that it is ok to run in-text ads alongside AdSense ads, on the same pages. They just don’t want anyone running ads that look similar to AdSense ads.”
• Adsense vs. Kontera (THMG.COM)
  “Will adding Kontera reduce AdSense click-thrus and revenue? Do the Kontera double-underlined links detract from my site’s appearance? Will my visitors experience an increase in page-loading time? ”
• Kontera and Adsense? (Webmaster World)
  “Before Kontera my Adsense was around $80 or so
  After Kontera it went to $40 or so
  Kontera was generating $20 or so ”

If you insist, I’d recommend trying Infolinks instead. See the comparison for Kontera vs Infolinks.

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