Update: I’m giving Kontera another chance…after promises of better ads and more pay
Kontera, why run a scam ad on my website? Goodbye! I'm done...I can make more with Google Adsense and block the get rich quick crap
I’ve been with Kontera — the company that produces those little underlined, linked ads that you may have seen on my blogs — for years now, ever since John Chow first wrote about them years ago.
I love getting the monthly (if I’ve made it over the minimum) payment in my checking account from Kontera — getting paid for leading people to applicable ads on my websites that they click on.
I’ve wondered on and off where those ads lead people, but mostly I’ve probably rarely clicked on one, because places like Google Adsense and Kontera and other organizations don’t want people clicking on their own ads.
Well, I just hovered over one of the links that Kontera is displaying to my readers, and I see that it’s the same scam ads run on sites like LA-sentinel.com that I warn readers to stay away from!
It’s enough already. I mean, I’ve blocked the “get rich quick” category in my Adsense account so that they won’t display that kind of crap to my readers — and I don’t like the fact that I’ve seen sites I write for, like Examiner, display those types of ads as well.
Even big sites like perhaps CNN or Fox or others have run those scam ads. It’s like this big open secret that people don’t want to address.
There are plenty of other legitimate ways to make money online with high-paying keywords without having to resort to taking money from unsuspecting newbies who don’t know much about making money online — and then companies come and try and sell them down the river with fake promises from scammers.
Yes, there are good people online who sell valuable courses, but scam sites like LA-sentinel.com ain’t it. They’ve got enough complaints to verify that using a simple Google search.
And yes, a lot of times us webmasters and website owners don’t know the ads we’re serving up — but when we become aware of any scammers trying to pay us to run their ads to steal money from other folks, I believe we have an opportunity to try and choose the higher road.
I love Kontera’s excellent customer service — and somewhere on their website they may have a way for me to block these ads by subject. But a quick look for my Kontera login and pw turned up nil, and I don’t feel like dealing with it.
After I hit publish, my next step is to find the Kontera code on this blog and just remove it. And I’m not going with Infolinks either. I don’t like their links from the onset either.
Maybe I’ll find another in-text ad service that doesn’t run ads like that.
In the meantime, it’s been real, Kontera — but I’m outta here. Now I just gotta go thru each site I’m running Kontera ads on and dig out the code and delete it.
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