Google AdSense has long been a mainstay for web-masters to make money online. It has everything that the site owner can hope for in an affiliate program. It's easy to set up and use, visitors to the site who are familiar with it, and as a result do not be afraid to click on ads, Google tends to pay on time and the right amount and with decent traffic numbers for a site, you can make the amount of money decent. But now Google Adsense is very difficult to be made, rather much ado that the calculation in order to be accepted by them. But days like this you are confused to make money online, then I hope after reading this article you into the spirit again .....
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Chitika (pronounced CHIH-tih-ka) is the industry's
leading alternative to Google AdSense both in terms of
Revenue and Size of Network (with 200,000+ active publishers
worldwide).
Chitika was founded in May 2003, is based in
Massachusetts and is closely tied with Yahoo as witnessed by
this May 2013 press release. In fact, when Yahoo shut down
its Affiliate Program, they referred all publishers to
Chitika.
Chitika began, not as a stand-alone advertising solution
but instead as way to complement existing advertising /
publishing programs through the use of additional Ad Units
which were altogether different from the standard ad boxes,
pop-unders etc that everybody else provided. Instead of
displaying these 'industry standard' advert boxes with text
and image ads that all look the same
Chitika instead provided active boxes that showed
targeted products from different manufacturers. If you ran a
blog for example and discussed a product you might have
found the
Chitika box showing links for this product and
competitors' products. If people purchased these products
you would get paid a commission. This was referred to as
affiliate marketing in the form of Premium Ad Units (eMinimalls).
However,
Chitika now goes beyond this, also offering what are
termed premium ads.
Chitika uses its proprietary "Click Prediction"
technology to show select ads when there is a greater chance
they will be clicked on. This is obviously a great way to
improve your revenue.
For advertisers and media buyers,
Chitika is a proven channel for targeting on-line
consumers and qualified buyers. For all publishers,
Chitika is an easy-to-use platform for earning daily ad
revenue. If you visit a site showing
Chitika's ads from a search engine then the
Chitika premium ad unit kicks in showing you ads that
are specific to your searching - otherwise the ad code
falls-back to the page text and finds a suitable ad to
display.
- Linx ad code - an in-text unit Linx ad units
can be run in addition to Chitika's standard ad units
and works best on sites with lots of text content. The
code will scan the page, determine the words which
should net the highest CPCs and underlines them. When
the user mouse-s-over the word, a small, highly targeted
text ad is shown.
- Hover ad code - a slider unit Hover ad units
can also be run in addition to the other ad types. It
also targets incoming search terms and in the absence of
that, it targets page content. The unit is a small
window that slides in the frame from the right-hand
side.
- Mobile ad code - automatic display of ads on mobile devices At the time of writing Chitika is one of the only advertising networks in the world (aside from Google) whose standard ad code can sense that the user is on a mobile device and automatically serves a mobile ad at the bottom of the screen specific to the device screen size.
Chitika offers payment by PayPal (with a $10 minimum) or
via Check (with a $50 minimum). Click here to visit
Chitika's website and sign up today.
Click here to visit Chitika's
website and sign up today
Bidvertiser is an excellent alternative to
Google and offers some intriguing ad formats including
what they refer to as free design. This lets you specify
the look and dimensions of your text ads. While a useful
feature I have not investigated how well it works but
imagine that while it sounds good on paper it could
result in lower priced ads being displayed. I.e. most
advertisers will probably want to keep control of the
layout of their ads and so turn off support for Free
design ads. All the standard ad formats exist, however,
and the payouts are excellent. Pop-under ads and XML feeds are also
supported.
Bidvertiser have also recently introduced two knew
features that can boost your earnings:
- Conversion Bonus
As far as I am aware Bidvertiser is the first affiliate marketer to offer this seemingly obvious service. As well as paying traditional CPC for each valid click Bidvertiser will now track those clicks and if they turn into valid leads will pay an additional conversion bonus to the publisher. If your site refers a number of high value leads this can lead to a substantial monthly bonus. In many cases this additional bonus can be higher than traditional CPC earnings.
- Revenue Generating Toolbar
The second new feature offered by Bidvertiser is the customized revenue generating toolbar. The BidVertiser Toolbar allows you to distribute your own customized toolbar to your website visitors and then earn money when your users use the toolbar for searching. The toolbar is fully customizable allowing logos to be changed, links to your home page added, useful tools, direct program links etc.
If you want you can download an example of the toolbar using the link below to try it out.
System Requirements
Windows Vista/XP/2000
Internet Explorer
Bidvertizer pays you either in $100.00 increments by
check or $10.00 increments by PayPal.
They also do not require you to complete
any tax information or provide a social security number.
Maximum customizability for the layout of your ads:
BidVertiser gives you a simple point-and-click tool to help you customize the
layout of the ads to fit your site's look and feel, in order to retain the high
quality of your website. Bidvertizer also offers the opportunity to block
unwanted ads. The reports provided by
Bidvertiser are
adequate but not outstanding. The only real problem is
that it has been reported that they can be picky with who they accept into their
program and can be quick to ban users whose websites
show what may be perfectly valid fluctuating visitor behaviour.
Although I have not heard any recent reports so they may
have relaxed this policy somewhat.
Click here to visit Bidvertiser's website where you can
either sign up as a publisher (show peoples ads on your
site) or as an advertiser (show your ads on other sites).
As an advertiser you can get $20 in free clicks by
following this link:
Bidvertiser Advertise and get $20 in free clicks.
3)
B4PSAds.com
Granted they might not have the catchiest or easiest to
remember URL but
B4PSAds.com are
a rising star when it comes to alternatives to Google Adsense and for those of you who lost out due to
the AdBrite going bust debacle
B4PSAds.com
offers a
reasonably good alternative there as well.
B4PSAds.com are a
complete advertising solution offering Pay Per Click (PPC)
and Cost Per Action (CPA) to publishers and advertisers
alike. It is very easy to get accepted with
B4PSAds.com, they do not require a US social
security number and approval is typically instantaneous
after validating your email address. They support regular
webpages as well as blogs and news feeds. Some of things
B4PSAds offer include:
- CPA Bonuses - They pay you CPA bonuses for clicks that actually turn into actions for advertisers. This means you can earn income on both the click itself and resulting actions.
- Hands Free Operation - No longer will you have to search for the highest performing ads, nor will you have to pull ads when they run out. Every night, the B4PSAds system finds you the highest CPM yields, but then will also rotate to the next most profitable set of offers when advertisers end their campaigns or go over budget. This ultimately translates into more earning potential from your website traffic.
- Publisher Control - B4PSAds includes a full publisher control suite for you to control every aspect of your ads.
- Account Management - B4PSAds offers real time management of campaigns and provides details statistics and full accounting ledgers of historical and month to date (MTD) earnings and withdrawals.
- No Fees - There are no administration or network fees and it costs nothing to join.
- Monthly Contests - B4PSAds offers monthly cash prize contests for publishers.
- Privacy - In a move that may be critical to publishers in Europe B4PSAds does not collect or store any personal identifying information form users that visit your website. They collect only non-identifying information required for running the advertising campaigns.
Easy Payment:
B4PSAds offers payment via Paypal or Direct Deposit.
Minimum payout is just $50 and payment is on an extremely
frequent Net 5. That is by the 5th of each month your
earnings from the previous month will be reviewed and posted
to your account ledger and available for withdrawal. In
addition, in a feature that I believe is unique they offer
the ability for high volume earners (over $1,000 per month)
to withdraw a portion of their earnings early. Did you lose
thousands of dollars because of AdBrite's 3 month vesting
scheme. No worries here, you can withdraw your funds within
just days of earning them. All withdrawls can be direct
deposited by eCheck to your Bank Checking Account or via
Paypal.
A relative newcomer to the scene
Infolinks specializes in In-Text Advertizing. That is it
indexes your page looking for keywords and phrases that are
not currently links and converts them into advertizing
links. When a user places their mouse over the link a box
opens up showing the ad. If they click on the link you get
paid. It is very simple and works very effectively. The nice
part is that you can use
Infolinks to compliment an existing advertizing campaign
on your website. For example you can show banner ads with
Bidvertiser and show text links with
Infolinks. Or you can even show text links with both
Intellilinks and
Infolinks together on the same page to maximize your
revenue.
Infolinks claims to be leading the industry with the
most relevant in-text advertising links and the highest
revenue share - guaranteed. I am not sure how they
'guarantee' this but having used them for several months I
can attest that their payouts are indeed good compared to
other In-Text advertizing options.
In-Text advertizing is also useful if you
have a site under construction. For example, suppose you
have built a list of links but have not added all the links
yet.
Infolinks will parse your page and convert a lot of
these into links. People then think these are part of your
site, click on them and you get paid. The unobtrusiveness
makes it a very attractive way to monetize your site without
inundating and alienating your visitors with flashing
banners, pop-ups etc.
Additionally
Infolinks has just added a new feature called Related
Tags. Related tags allow you to increase your clicks and
earnings while adding valuable informational tags within
your website's content. The Infolinks algorithm will choose
the best keywords for the page and display them as tags
within the Related Tags cloud. Just like In text ads, when a
visitor hovers over the tags, an Infolinks advertisement
bubble will appear, and each click will award your account
additional revenues.
New features are being added by
Infolinks all the time taking them beyond the
traditional highlighted link advertiser. A recent addition
is called the Search Widget add-on. In
Infolinks' words it will "revolutionize how you monetize
your websites". This new ad banner activates when a visitor
originating from a Search Engine (Google, Bing or Yahoo)
arrives at your site. The Search Widget appears for those
visitors only, revealing ads related to their search. This
can result in very high click thru rates.
Infolinks pays you either by
bank wire, Automated Clearing House (ACH) ($400
minimum), or by
PayPal
($50 minimum). Intriguingly they also offer payment via a
prepaid Mastercard that will be refilled with your earnings
each month. This is an interesting approach to payment and
may be useful for international customers without
PayPal or US Dollar bank accounts. However, the fees for
this prepaid card appear to be fairly steep.
Infolinks' features:
- Quick and easy setup with no changes to your website.
- Ads are tightly integrated with your content - no additional space required.
- Free sign up with no commitments or risk.
- User triggered, less intrusive advertising that won't distract from your site's content.
- Highly relevant In-Text ads for your site visitors with record high conversion rates.
- Related tags.
Click here to visit Infolink's website and signup for an account to give them a try. As with most alternatives to adsense it is free and there is no obligation.5) Intellilinks
Intellilinks is a similar service to infolinks above but
well worth trying.
Intellilinks specializes in placing organic text links
across an ever-growing network of websites in order to build
rank and traffic for advertisers and increased revenue for
publishers.
Intellilinks focuses on providing cutting edge
technology, while keeping the network seamless and secure to
bring results to their clients and revenue to their
publishers.
For publishers
Intellilinks offers the following features:Intellilinks allows you to place ads on your website using either their PHP script or their Wordpress plugin. You can have ads automatically approved or manually review them and place them yourself.
- Sell text links on your website for profit in a few easy steps.
- Extremely simple to setup, just install a plugin for your blog.
- As a publisher you have total control over which links are published on your site.
Intellilinks has no obligation and costs nothing to join
or use. They split revenue 50:50 and make payments monthly
by
PayPal. Unlike almost every other
adsense alternative
Intellilinks have no minimum payout threshold. Whatever
you earn during a month will be paid to you the following
month via
PayPal.
Intellilinks also supports hosting ads on blog pages.
Click
here to visit Intellilinks website and signup for an account
and give them a try.
Dynamic Oxygen are a relative newcomer to the field
having really only started at the end of 2010. However,
they are growing quickly and offer an excellent
alternative to the traditional Adsense route.
Dynamic Oxygen enables publishers of all sizes to
realize their full revenue potential! One of the nice
things being that they are not focused purely on the
high end, very high turnover publishers but instead
cater to sites of all shapes, sizes and popularity. This
also includes most international sites. Unlike many ad
providers that only cater for US or European traffic,
DynamicOxygen supports and pays out for worldwide
traffic making it ideal for non-US based publishers.
In particular they feature:- Benefit from targeted ads with High eCPM for your ENTIRE traffic.
- Get paid for all your international traffic.
- Enjoy unique ad formats not found elsewhere, such as Interstitials, Layer Ads, Peeler Ads, Anchor Ads, and more...
- Enjoy timely payments.
- Superb Support
Clicksor
is
one of the current leaders of the small publisher Adsense competition.
They have payouts
up to a market leading 85% and unlike a
number of alternatives the cost per click bid values are high enough
that you
can earn a decent income. They are also, in my experience, much more
tolerant
than Google. Their terms and conditions suggest that you should only
place one
copy of their code on a page but as long as you only place a single
pop-up or DHTML code on a page they seem happy to let you place many
context sensitive ad
blocks on a single site.
Clicksor also has a big advantage over a
number of the lower ranked alternatives on this site in that
their ads are truly context sensitive. Thus while you can
provide keywords they have technology that will also show
ads targeted to the content of your site. This means your
visitors are exposed to ads of the same subject as they were
searching for when they reached your site and thus vastly
increases the click thru ratio and thus your sites earning
potential. The context sensitive nature also saves you the
hassle of having to specify keywords for all of your sites
and decide in advance what people might be looking for.
The online stats provided by
Clicksor are not perfect but they
are enough for you to keep track of the trends with your site. They also allow
you to add as many sites / domains as you want under a single account. You also
only need the root page of your site approved. Once this is done you can place
ads on all of your sub pages.
The payment schedule with
Clicksor is also
much better geared to the small site owner. In any pay
period in which your earnings exceed $50.00 ($20.00 with PayPal), payments are made either by check
or instantly through PayPal ($20.00 minimum for
PayPal). Revenue totaling less that $50
(PP $20) will rolled into
the following period. The pay period is based on a 15 day schedule so you can
get paid much more frequently. Clicksor also do not require
a Social Security (SSN) or Individual Tax Identity Number (ITIN)
to join and so while this 'technically' does not help US
site owners with their tax liability it does make it much
easier for non US citizens to join up and start earning
revenue.
That said I have had several reports of
late about Clicksor becoming more picky about who they
accept and rejecting accounts. This is especially true of
sites not based in the USA, Canada or the UK as well as
sites not predominantly in English. I have also seen issues
with their reporting of earnings, especially referrals not
working properly. Thus I have moved them further down the
list but I still recommend you to try them.Advert wise Clicksor features:
Multiple formats available including text, image and animated ads.
- Text Links
- Image Ads
- Flash Ads
- Animation Ads
- Banners
- Pop unders
- Interstitial Ads (NEW)
- Dynamic (DHTML) highlighting
Sign up for an account to try it out. There is no obligation and no fees ever. Note, once you start adding the advert code to your site it can take up to 24 hours for Clicksor to get up to speed as it were so initially you may see some ads that don't appear to be relevant. Once their contextual engine kicks in, however, the relevance quickly improves.8) Skimlinks
Ex AdBrite customers note: Clicksor is offering guaranteed account approval to anyone who had an active account with AdBrite when they went bust on Feb 1st 2013.
Skimlinks' logo is "Unlock the cash in your content" and
in this they do well.
Skimlinks provides you with a highly
automated way to monetize your entire content. They focus on
two approaches, the first is the well known approach of
monetizing phrases on your site by automatically converting
them into affiliate links. The second is somewhat more
unique in that
Skimlinks can take regular links on your site
and redirect them through their affiliate servers. A brief
explanation of how this works is as follows:
- You add normal product links to your site.
- Your site looks normal to your readers with links showing exactly where they are going and it doesn't appear as if it is an advert.
- Skimlinks automatically turns this link into an equivalent affiliate link when a user clicks on it by redirecting briefly through the Skimlinks servers.
- Everytime a user clicks through a product link that Skimlinks is able to affiliate you earn a commission
The entire process is completely automated. You just add
the javascript code and away you go.
Skimlinks allows you to:
- Add normal links to your content and have them automatically converted to an affiliate link on-click.
- No affiliate links to create or manage - Skimlinks does the work for you.
- No more network sign ups and approvals - you get instant access to 17,000 affiliate programs.
- Centralized reporting makes it easy to see which retailers your readers love.
- The scale of Skimlinks allows them to negotiate better commission rates for you over what you might be able to get by approaching the retailers directly.
Skimlinks has a very relaxed attitude to the type of
content supported and they fully support Blogs and collation
sites. Sign up for a no-obligation free account today and
try it for yourself.
9)
Exit Junction
Exit Junction is
relatively new and, I believe, a spin
off from the now defunct Revenue Pilot. While Revenue
Pilot has stopped running, however,
Exit Junction is
going from strength to strength.
Exit Junction offers a
unique approach to advertising that is compatible with
all the other Ad Networks included Google Adsense. The
key to Exit junction is that they focus on showing ads
to users as they leave your site rather than as they
arrive or as they browse. This approach offers you an
additional way to monetize your traffic and also capture
ad revenue from those that stumble upon your site from a
search engine and then immediately leave.
By adding a small piece of
Exit Junction
code to the header section of your site users are shown an
advert as they hit the back button. For example, if a user
came to your site from a Google search and then immediately
hit the back button to return to that search they would be
shown an Exit Junction Ad in between your page and the
Google search and you get paid for this impression. The ad
is directly targeted to the search term that brought the
visitor to your site in the first place. Hence
Exit Junction
is an ideal way of complimenting your existing ad services
and so increasing your sites revenue without having to
switch from your current ad provider.
Exit junction also covers all countries.
You get paid for all traffic exiting you site regardless of
its origin.
They offer fee free payout via Check or
PayPal with earnings of as little as $25 on a monthly basis.
Kontera works in a similar way to
Infolinks above, however, they have been around for much
longer. Traditionally it was hard to get accepted by
Kontera but they seem to have relaxed their restrictions
of late. This is especially true for website publishers and
affiliate marketers that do not have high daily page
impressions.
Kontera is extremely easy to use. You simply add a few
lines of code to the end of your webpage and within 24 hours
additionally links start showing up on your page that serve
Kontera Ads. While this service does not provide you
with a complete replacement for all your ads, since they do
not provide banner creatives etc., it does provide an
additional way to increase the revenue your site can
generate. The links are context sensitive and relevant so
click through ratios can be very high for well designed
sites.
Some of the features offered by
Kontera:
- The best payout in the business.
- Premium ads with market-leading CPC.
- Record high CTRs.
- The best relevancy and user experience.
- Works within your text - no extra space required.
- Takes only a minute to set up.
Kontera is nice because it is simply Plug and Play and
it provides an additional revenue stream for your website.
It does not require any additional space or layout
considerations since it integrated directly with your text.
In my opinion the inline text ads also look smarter than a
lot of other offerings.
In May 2011 Kontera started rolling out
additional features designed to maximize revenue and value
for publishers. These represent extensions of what
Kontera do today and are intended to deliver better
revenue and value publishers. The Retargeting offering is
part of
Kontera's Audience Program and leverages their unique
ability to understand and assess user interest via a
semantic engine designed to yield greater revenues for
publishers.
Kontera's Retargeting presents a unique opportunity for
publishers to earn additional revenues from
Kontera ads that they already serve.
Kontera finds interested consumers on publisher sites
and qualifies their interest by leveraging their Synapse
technology. When they see these users elsewhere on the web
they show them relevant banners and share the revenues with
the publisher where the user first expressed interest.
The value add for the publisher includes:1) Additional revenue (approximately 10-20% more on average once the entire Audience Program is fully operational)Kontera provides payment by PayPal with a $50 minimum payout.
2) No technical requirements
3) No change to user experience
4) Ability to participate in an exciting and novel growth area in advertising