Gogle Ads

Kitara Media may not be one of the better known Adsense alternatives, but it should be. Despite my initial reaction to a plain and unappealing website, the service, the pay and the admin tools turned out to be top notch, boasting a level of control that even Adsense doesn’t have. Kitara allows you to browse through all of the creatives (images) and ban any that don’t want appearing.  They also provide tools to select from various categories of ads to prevent unwanted ads from appearing. My favorite feature was the ability to add your own advertisers to your account. I  [ Read More ]

AdBrite is one of the most popular Adsense alternatives. They offer several types of ads including banner, interstitial, image hover and inline text. Banner ads are both CPC and CPM, served contextually. AdBrite has a few unique features, like being able to see your own profile, as seen by Advertisers.  As far as performance, AdBrite is far and away the most profitable Adsense Alternative that I have tested. The site that I tested generated from 1/3rd to 1/2 of the income I had earned through Adsense in just the first week. It continues to rise and could easily meet or  [ Read More ]

Gogle Ads is a blog about the Google Advertising monopoly and the chilling effect it has on the internet. I’ll be exploring alternative ad networks and reporting on their performance via a small network of sites, including this one. The impetus to write about this topic came one day when one of my brand new sites was inexplicably removed from Adsense with an ominous email from Google with the subject “Google AdSense ad serving has been disabled to your site”. I was alarmed to say the least, as I have a few profitable and well established sites. Fortunately, it was  [ Read More ]