Gogle Ads

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 ]

CJ, LinkShare, Pepperjam and GAN are the top tier of the affiliate network route to monetizing your website. Affiliate networks, if you are not familiar with the scheme, pay on a lead or action. Basically, when a user clicks the ad and then buys something at the target site, the publisher gets a percentage of the sale. While there are a few advantages to this option over PPC and PPM networks, they do not compensate for the ridiculously low income this option provides. In my trials, I sent several thousand impressions to several top advertisers. While a few clicks were  [ Read More ]

A review of foregoing ads altogether isn’t really a review, but more of a commentary and an evaluation of the pros and cons. Generally, it takes thousands of ad impressions (visitors * pages viewed * ads per page) to make any money at all from site ads and tens of thousands to make anything worthwhile. Meanwhile, the browser has to fetch the javascript, and then fetch the ad components, all of which slows a site down and more often than not create a hostile environment for users, with poorly flashing, loud, distracting ads. If your site gets under 100 visitors  [ Read More ]

Amazon offers one of the better alternatives to ad networks. With almost every imaginable product available to links to and numerous Amazon created ads, almost every site will find something relevant to their content and visitors. It is also the only affiliate program which I have had the pleasure of profiting from, albeit minimally. Most are a complete waste of time. Don’t get me wrong, you won’t make near the profit that you would with ads, but it’s a positive supplement to ad programs. The only down side is that you may see numerous clicks before anyone purchases anything. The  [ Read More ]

I decided to review AffinityClick as the first Adsense alternative because they are relatively new and seem very promising. If the ad performance lives up to the rest, they could be a strong contender. While my exposure to them has been brief, so far, I love the look of the ads and I love the administrative interface. AffinityClick is also one of the few PPC networks out there, which generally perform better for publishers. Pros: The administration interface is super simple, attractive and easy to use. Ads can be filtered by category, keyword or by advertiser, including a blacklist (negative  [ Read More ]