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Best alternatives to adsense? (17)

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Thx in advance

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Did you look at media.net?

Payouts not quite as good (and not as customisable) but only easily attainable substitute I could ever find.

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Been happy with mobicow lately, great support.

http://www.mobicow.com/

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making a list atm, found a guy who was doing content management projects, and going to hire him on as a partner to try our luck in content marketing since we have a ton of inhouse writers anyway

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I didn't have great experiences with Media.net, but I agree, they're the most credible alternative out there.

Personally, if you can't run Adsense I'd recommend running ads for a CPA or CPS offer. That's certainly the best alternative I found last time I had a site temporarily banned from Adsense.

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there is none mate...

media.net has some sort of gateway...

so if your visitor clicks on their banners... they get to a landing page where they need to click again to be counted as a click (so you earn from that click)...

I have tried medianet and here is my comparison:

1month earnings from adsense: $17,000 (average)
1month earnings from medianet: $600
almost same traffic... (unique visits)


the best way you can do is sell your ad zone yourself... but that will take away a huge amount of your time.. unless you hire someone else to sell your ad space

you can also try putting up CPA... but needs to be 100000% related to your content... or traffic won't convert at all..

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thanks, yup i am just making a biz plan now, we will start with adsense but the rumour that goes around of google shutting down adsense accounts is a true one, they do steal commissions so i want us to be prepared for that scenario

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I have used Click.net in the past, their search feed and Ad Spots solutions (before the various sites got smashed by Google) might be worth considering once you have a steady traffic base... although it never managed to match AdSense for revenue it did provide a nice backup option, to give you a sense of things (please bear in mind this was 18 months ago) approx $1,500/pm on a site that would have otherwise done $4,000/pm on AdSense

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Does Yahoo ads still exist

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Do you have a lot of traffic?
Maybe use a CPM program instead like Rubicon, Taboola or TribalFusion?

Otherwise, tehre's Chitika or Adversal too, but none of them pay as much as Adsense (also depends on the country and language).

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What exactly are to trying to achieve/what problem are you trying to solve?

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Trying to disconnect from google and get away from their evil.

No adwords no adsense = content marketing with outbrain, taboola, zergenet.. etc.

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Google may not be saints, but in my experience, other traffic sources are really not better. They may seem better, but usually it is just because most of them have not been able to occupy the market power that Google has been able to achieve.

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It's not about traffic source here, it's about building a stable business with upward growth. That is not really possible with Google in the mix.

Google can do whatever they want by hiding behind the user experience mantra and also utilize endless policies in their favor to screw with your business plan that they can update whenever and however they feel. They can effectively ruin your business, no matter how great your systems are OVERNIGHT.

You can be affected as well, you can start a campaign, have it going good - then one day they decide to change their adwords algo because they realize you (and others in your niche) as a middle men are making great coin, so they better do something about that - so algo update, one that works well with who their dream customers are; mom & pops and brands, who just put it up, let it go, and don't optimize.

Or they can simply go to your client directly, through their 'creative' channels and offer them in house media management team so they stop working with you, save money going direct - and you are cut out from the equation. This is the google way...

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Just to remind people thought google is evil, let go to facebook and they build hugh fan page, invest tons of money but then one day facebook changed the algo and some fan pages got hit really hard..

So its not that google is your problem, you just don't want to be depend on one client / provider because if you will be depend on any other 1 company they can fuck you anytime..

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Essentially if you are a new traffic channel, you need quick revenues early on in order to just stay alive or get you to your next VC funding round. As a result, when new traffic channels are first starting they tend to be lax with advertising guidelines ... not because they want to be, but because they have to be.

Later on, as they become more successful, these channels want to attract higher quality advertisers like large banks, large consumer goods companies, automotive companies, etc, and as a result, they start taking a much more aggressive stance on particularly direct response advertisers. If these traffic channels are now eyeing an IPO, they start culling advertisers even more so that they can tell investors that our advertisers include P&G, IBM, Toyota, Wells Fargo Bank etc.

This is just how the game is played out. This was the case for Google, Facebook, and for many of the content recommendation channels like Outbrain as well, and pretty much any channel that wants to play big time.

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Atilla -

Did you ever determine a good alternative to adsense per any of the suggestions? (am in total agreement ...the very notion of being dependent on one "anything" for your business in nuts)

F.

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