Any alternative to adsense?

moneymabel

i have 3 web sites with Weebly that i would like to put ads on but am having all sorts of nightmares with Adsense and getting it to work...are there any reliable recommended alternatives to Google for ads? Thanks for any help

hamcaster

The most popular direct alternative is adbrite, its ads look identical to adsense's as far as I know, and it operates in pretty much the same way.

If it's the format that you can't get to work, then adbrite may not be a good idea, but there some alternate forms of revenue from advertising - buysellads.com is pretty popular, as well as text link ads. There is also affiliate schemes as another possibility.

moneymabel

Thanks will look into those :-)

expatdave

Some of the forums that I am a member on have tried different adverts over the years, but most get removed quickly from the sites. Who would want to be a webmaster- you make a site and put adverts on to cover the running costs and all you get are complaints about the adverts and people using ad blockers

Give me a real job any day of the week

moneymabel

lol-tell me about it! Have decided to try Ad Dynamo and Amazon Associates-we will see!

InsideInsurance

Do you know who your visitors are? Are they well defined in terms of demographics/ interests or very broad? Do you control the content of the site and is it well defined or is it more social/ user contribution in nature on a broad range of topics?

Adsense and Adbrite etc are all ok for an easy solution or for where everything is very broad and so their content sensitive placement comes into its own, especially if its something like a general interest forum where it could be anything by anyone.

If you can narrow your demographics down and identify more targetted interests you will be much better off with the likes of affiliate marketing than adsense. With a family history site that I used to run I would make circa £4 a month with adsense -v- £30 ish with advertising a number of geneology sites.

Going down the affiliate route requires more work from you. Dont get attracted just by the big payout numbers though as whilst RSA did used to give £100 per UK home buildings insurance sales you introduced your going to get next to no sales if you stick that on a site aimed at USA based social housing

soul-replacement

I think that the aren't better ads than AdSense but I heard that binlayer is also very good. Not as good as Adsense of course but still...

Adem_3

I'm happy with AdSense and once I created better content I found I was getting more clicks.

WinnerWinner_2

You could also just sell some links for a monthly fee

si.jenkins

I won't go into too much detail but look into CPA and Clickbank. Those sort of things are a far better alternative to adsense.

PasturesNew

Chitika is another Adsense look-a-like option. I use them a bit where I don't want to 'risk' my Adsense account (e.g. autoblogging sites)... and they can be quite good at times. Nothing beats good old Google for simplicity/high payout most of the time though....