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I have been displaying Kontera ads on my websites and blogs for a few months but I was holding back on using Kontera on many of the blogs because some of them were also selling paid blog reviews and the sites that pay you to post do not want to see other people’s ads in their sponsored post. One of the main Paid Post companies requires that posts submitted to them should not contain any advertising that overlaps the text. I already have an excellent plugin that can easily stop Adsense ads showing in paid blog posts, and I wanted to find a similar tool to manage my Kontera ads efficiently.

So I decided to find out how I could start displaying Kontera on my Wordpress blogs: I thought there should a a Kontera Wordpress Plugin somewhere on the web, and I found one quite easily a Karol Krizka’s Blog.  This is a great site for all sorts of technical help: I downloaded the plugin, uploaded it to my blogs using FTP and activated it then I inserted my Kontera Publisher number in the Options screen then, of course, I changed the link colour from orange to blue.  Now the Kontera integration Plugin is managing all my Kontera ads and I am looking forward to making more money with higher Kontera earnings on all my blogs.

I wrote at the end of October about the latest Google Page Rank Update and its effects on many well known websites. Google declared its opposition to sites that sell paid links several months ago - yes, paid links are the mainstay of Google’s business but they do not like other people to make money from paid links. When the page rank update took effect the loss of page rank was damaging to a number of high profile respected websites. For my own businesses I noticed that several of my websites and blogs gained their first page rank or had an increased page rank update. Google states clearly that page rank is decided by a complex algorithm that balances the quality of the website content with its popularity. Popularity is measured by a mix of inbound links, readership and numerous other SEO factors. So how did the Google algorithm measure the page rank of a Dog Health Tips site as PR 4 one day in October, and Page Rank 0 a few days later? Google deny that they were targeting sites that were selling text links, but there is no other explanation for these page rank reductions.

I have two blogs that feature content where the readers are likely to want to buy items from eBay. One is a guide to Designer Handbags, and the other gives help for iPod users who have lost their iTunes. I have seen plenty of sites and blogs displaying live eBay auction listings so I decided to do the same: after all, it should be easy, I thought. I then spent hours going round in circles through Commission Junction and the eBay Developers’ site. Every options seemed to require programming knowledge that was way beyond my experience. I decided I had to ask for help. The developers’ forum was pretty good, and several people offered helpful ideas for installing eBay listings simply on my blogs. As a result I have now downloaded and installed the phpBayLite plugin which adds eBay Auction listings to any php enabled site - like a Wordpress Blog - with just a few lines of code.

Once the plugin is installed you get a new new button that shows on the button panel as “pBL”, and you need to click on that for each post then insert the relevant keywords. This is simpler than installing convoluted code: it is displaying well, although so far it is only showing one item at a time.