Ad Networks Like Adsense

Google Adsense is great, but you pretty soon find out its limitations. It's then that you start to look for alternatives to Google Adsense, so I thought I'd share with you my Top 10 List of Google Adsense Alternatives.

So, what's wrong with Google Adsense? Nothing in itself, except there is a limit to how many advert units you can place on a page, if you rely on Google and your account gets banned you're suddenly earning nothing, with no Plan B, some sites aren't suitable for Google Adsense ... so it's best to experiment early and have alternatives to test and try. Make sure you don't get caught - have YOUR Plan B in place!!

Adbrite



AdBright is probably the next largest company behind Google Adsense offering very similar features. There is less variation in ad formats, but they do provide you with some super tools for you to set up your in-text ads (similar to MIVA and Vibrant).

AdBright also offer something called 'interstitial full page ads' which you can set to pop up as people move through your site (I'm sure they pay well, but I just don't like them so having tested them for awhile I removed these full page ads) - the benefit of these interstitial adverts is you get paid for every visitor, not every click, great if you've got a lot of traffic and nobody's clicking (of course, you could re-write your site at that point instead!)

• You set the minimum CPC values for your ads and you can even exclude advertisers you don't want.


• Payouts are roughly 75%. When they put their T&Cs together they had the small website owner and blogger in mind.


• You can run AdBrite on your site on the same page/s as your Google Adsense blocks, allowing you to maximize your CTR yet offering advertisers the chance to show their ads in your AdSense space.

Chitika

Chitika will display PPC adverts. Some of best things about Chitika are:

• You can use Chitika on the same pages as Google Adsense


• Chitika will only display adverts to your site visitors that find you from a search engine - and it will target those site visitors (clever, eh!)


• You can fully customise the colours and style.


• The Chitika referral system can provide you with an additional handy residual income.


• If you're using Wordpress, then Chitika even provide you with a free Wordpress plugin


• You are paid via Paypal (I love it when companies do that, so easy)


• If you have more than one website, you're completely free to use Chitika on all of your websites so long as the content on those sites meets with the Terms & Conditions.

Joining Chitika takes about 2 minutes, but then they advise you that it could be 2-3 working days before a human can check your website to approve you. They actually approved me within about 20 minutes!

Chitika is a great Adsense alternative. If you use the ad optimising site YieldBuild then you can associate your Chitika account with YieldBuild, the same way that you can do with Google Adsense.

BidVertiser

Bidvertiser is similar to Google AdSense, with a wide choice of advert layouts to use.

• You can block adverts you don't want.


• You pick the adverts to show - and the prices - from a list showing you the max bid prices of each one. You approve adverts before any show, so each time you log in you'll have a link saying "X adverts to approve".


• There are quite a few ways to monitor how well your adverts are doing - and good income statistics available at the click of a button.


• Once you sign up as a publisher, you are automatically also an affiliate, so you can promote the system to your network of contacts, or on your website.


• The Bidvertiser payment threshold is just $10 and you can get paid instantly through PayPal once you've reached the threshold.

I've been using Bidvertiser for quite some time and am gettin pretty good results from it.

US Beta Programmes: Coming Soon

If you're in the US, and I know a lot of you are, then it's worth noting that Yahoo and Microsoft are jumping on the ad network bandwagon and bringing out some great new programmes just like Adsense themselves.

Yahoo's advertising programme, just like Google Adsense, is now in Beta. You can join their ad network only if your site meets their strict criteria.

• Your site has to be written in English.


• You need a US Social Security number for verification.

Yahoo's ad network is still in Beta, so not easy to get registered with them for awhile for most sites.

The Yahoo payment threshold is set to be the same as Adsense: $100.

Once it's up and running, Yahoo will offer a choice of four ways to be paid,

Microsoft ContentAds

Microsoft ContentAds are in a Beta version of their new advertising system. At the moment it is only open to resident US Publishers.

Microsoft have one of the largest advertiser networks in the world, so once this is available to us all, it should provide a good income for publishers. They are only dealing with large sites while they are in the pilot phase and they say "We are currently in a pilot phase and focused on large publishers. If you are a brand-name publisher, publisher network or media company with over 200 million monthly page views and/or 50 million monthly search queries and would like to be a partner in our network, please contact us with your site description and statistics for further evaluation. Processing of requests may take up to 30 days."

Website: https://advertising.microsoft.com/publisher