When it comes to making money from blog, Adsense is one of the best blog monetization program. I have already shared my Adsense earnings for 4 years, which will give you an idea, how much you can earn from Adsense. Creating an AdSense account, and getting approval is not very easy, and specially for a newbie blogger, it’s tough. The real problem comes in when Google bans your Google Adsense account. The only solution then is to start looking for some of the best Google Adsense alternatives.
Honestly, all the advertising sites mentioned here are not better than Google Adsense but depending upon your niche and site traffic, few AdSense alternative sites like Chitika, BuySellAds works better. Before, we move ahead, Adsense is a contextual ad networking and where all all Google adsense alternatives site mentioned below are not contxtual ad program. For example, BuySellads offers direct advertisement platform, and similarly Infolinks is In-text link program.
We have already talked about why adsense is the best advertisement program for bloggers and followed up with Google adsense in budding bloggers blog..
Getting Google Adsense approval is a dream for bloggers. But if you fail to get approval or get rejected because of some reason, don’t get frustrated because this article will help you to see all Google adsense alternatives to earn money online. But before choosing an alternative to Google Adsense, check out what kind of traffic you are generating to your blog.
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Best alternative to Adsense:
Update: I keep updating list with all the new monetization method which I use, as an Adsense alternative. So, bookmark this page, and keep coming back for finding new blog monetization programs. You should also look into Viglink, which is one of the program , that I used recently and I loved it.
1. BuySellAds:
BuySellAds is one of the alternatives to Google Adsense. As soon as you submit your blog to BuySellAds, it will automatically fetch up your blog stats which includes PR, Alexa rank , Technorati, Del.Icio.us, Yahoo inbound links etc. For getting an approval for BuySellAds , your site should have a decent Traffic. As soon as your site gets an approval, you can setup an area on your blog for BuySellAds and wait for advertisers to bid.
- Also read : How to get your website approved in Buysellads
2. Chitika:
Chitika is a CPC product oriented program. I like Chitika because of two reasons. Firstly, it always places relevant ads based on the content, which helps you to get more click. Secondly, you can edit text color, URL color, border color to blend with your blog format. You can also choose for their referral program, to earn extra income.
3. Infolinks:
Infolinks is one of the best In-line text ads programs, I won’t say its an alternative to Google adsense but It’s good for high traffic blog. You can see its performance in shoutmeloud monthly income report. It is easy to setup and provides relevant ads to your blog which helps you to increase the clicks. As it is an In-line text, so your visitors won’t get distracted because of advertisements. You can find a quick review about infolinks here.
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4. Kontera:
Kontera is another In-line text program. Approval of your blog in kontera needs good page impression for your blog. Kontera has good customer support and pays on time. But I found that Kontera ads might slow down loading time of your blog.
5. Adbrite: (Update: Adbrite shuts down. More update here)
Adbrite allows you to setup your Ad space price on weekly basis, monthly basis etc. You have authority to choose or reject any advertisement for your blog; this helps you to choose advertisement relevant to your blog. You can even change the style of advertisement according to your blog format.
These are just some of the close and best alternatives to Adsense. Though if your adsense is disabled, the best way to cover the Adsense earning is by keeping a mixture of two or more Ad network. For example, along with contextual ad use Infolinks or Viglink. You can also use Luminate to monetize your blog images and they use Adsense ads in the images. If you looking for contextual ads only, you can also try Bidvertisers, which is said to be working good for many bloggers.
Anyways, do let us know what other ad programs would you list as Google Adsense alternatives you will recommend to others? Which one you have used and which ad program worked for you the most?
If you know about any good Indian Ad network then do share your views about it.
Good Indian Ad Network… Hmmmmm
Have you looked into the Guruji ad network?? It requires you to have an Indian site meaning for the Indians specially..
Guruji Sucks, thats what I have heard from some of my friends. I have not used it though, and no plans to use it also
That is not what I have heard from other people who are using it. But anyways you can go for Adbrite, it’s good as long as your impression count is huge.
Apart from this I do not see anything specifically made for Indians that would prove good for the publisher,
What’s wrong with adsense anyways??
Puneet you can try out Tyroo.
but there are some Pakistani site too using guruji network… Funmaza.com and apniisp.com…
Only info links work better.
Buy-sell ads is only for tech type of blog.
When you refer to alternative, it should be meant to open for all blog. Hence buy sell ads can’t be there in the list.
Chitika is good only if you have traffic from USA/Canada.
I used Kontera but earning was pretty low comparing to infolinks
Adbrite is good however it does not have ads suitable for Indian Visitors. Comparing to adbrite, Antventure is giving better result.
If you don’t use infolinks, then I will recommend to use adbrites in-text ads with banner and full page ad. Adbrite full page ads have higher page ecpm
Thanks for adding you insight Mahendra.
In my experience, there is no alternative in the real sense of the word to Google Adsense. Why?
Adbrite 90% of the time displays Advertise Here. Their network of advertisers is very limited.
Kontera has a wonderful talent of slowing your site down to a crawl. And you need virtually millions of clicks to make the minimum payout.
Infolinks also requires you have millions of clicks to make anything worth calling money.
Chitika is cool, but I am getting disillusioned with their prices. There are times when I get 8 clicks for a value of $0.06!
I have not tried BuySell ads yet. So IMHO, Google Adsense simply has no alternative for small to medium scale blogs. If you have an account there, safe guard it well and play by Google’s rules.
You will be glad you did! Thanks!
Agree with you Ghabuntu, We can’t compare with google . But they are useful for earning something extra.
i too think bidvertiser is missing from the list….it is quite cool ad network with an awesome payout record
Thanks for adding Tushar, Bidvertiser is really good.
Thanks! This list comes in handy right about now as I am starting to look for advertisers. I randomly found buysellads not too long & was wondering about them. What do you think of contacting advertisers directly?
It’s always good to get direct advertisement , at least you don’t have to pay huge commission to Ad networking websites.
I would personally recommend first 3. They are the best alternative to adsense.
BuySellAds is a great ad network but it could improve itself much more if they reduce their percentage share though I agree they are helping to bring advertisers to the blog from their directory but still I would recommend them some decrease in their percentage share.
InfoLinks is really Best. I don’t have much words to say about it. It really Rox.
Chitika is a good alternative only if you have good amount of US search visitors but I think there had been some changes by the introduction of Chitika Select..So things might improve more with that technology.
Never gave much time to Kontera on my blog for monetizing..So can’t comment on it.
Would never recommend Adbrite..It’s CPC sux like hell..May be good for forums(porn,warez specially)..
Thanks for adding your views Typhoon. BuySellAds can go to far but they have to change few of their policies like selection of blogs, commission rates etc.
I m surprised to see Adbrite in this list. I don’t think its good enough to be in this list. Anyways good list Ruchi
Loviesh, Adbrite is providing good eCPM , worth trying.
I tried it some months back and they were not showing targeted ads. This is the main problem with them. Thats why tech bloggers never like Adbrite.
What about Clickbank’s Hop Ad Builder? If you have space on your site why not have ads that will potentially earns you tens of dollars instead of maybe ten cents?
Aaron, I personally had bad experience with Clickbank , thus don’t prefer to recommend clickbank to others.
I just don’t understand why you suggest in-text ads like infolinks and kontera next to Adsense. Though those are still under CPC program, but I think it’s better to suggest programs similar to Adsense like that of Bidvertiser and Adbrite. After all, Adsense is still the best when it comes to CPC. Anyway, thanks for this post.
I think infolinks is next big to adsense. Still it pays really low. But when you have lot of traffic you get decent from infolinks. Some times we get really well in infolinks too. and bidvertizers has no related ads except make money. etc..
I agree these are the leaders in the Advertising networks…but does anyone know which network I can use along with Adsense ..
as a second source of revenue?
And ya leaving Infolinks and Chitika…I already used them
I have tried all of them but only Chitika Premium help me generate more money, the other like BSA did not help much. Thanks
I had been using 4 options since 1 year. I never use Buysellads programs but about easy money. You can’t left adsense. Chitika pays only when someone click from U.S. or U.K.
Kontera didn’t pay much like adsense.
Infolinks what to say sometimes they didn’t pay of clicks. And sometimes they pay 10 cent on 15 click. Now what is the calculation ?
And about Adbrite, You can find there ads many time then any other advertisement.
If you are thinking for easy money. Adsense is a best way to make. But i feel to left it. It sucks.
I have got payment from adbrite long time back… Every thing is slow with adbrite…
guruji is totally useless… i see clicksor.com ads lot these days on some site.. another recent startup for india is http://admaya.in
admaya.in is bad, don’t place there ads at your site
Thanks for the article,
Would like to read the Detailed explanation on eCPM,CTR etc in Google Adsense on your farther article.. so that it would help people like me startups also who read this article and need some follow up to improve…
Adsense is best…Infolinks is very nice…..Chitika good for us and canada traffic..adbrite is good…Bidvertiser is bad ad network..They dnt include 90% clicks..poor click rate…
Adbrite info is outdated now. Rest looks good. I might try alternatives.
thanks for your reviews.but all of u are concentrating on text and banner ads. does anybosy knows about the video ads.its pretty good. just visit http://www.goviralnetwork.com , display the videos where ever u need. u can display in ur social networking sites like orkut,fb, or where else. they will pay for each view.
how much are they paying?
If you google goviralnetwork you may find they have been bought by AOL and might think they are a big resputable company.
I have heard of some people that they are ok but paying too low.
But the majority of people I talked to, and I can confirm that from my own experience, says they are SCAM.
They will deactivate your account without reason after a few month and not pay you, wich means as they always pay a month late, you loose 2 month of revenue.
If you email them you dont get any response, or you get an automatic email that the person you are mailing to doesn’t work for them any more …
If you have a counter on your side, you will see that the pageviews that you count, and their “impressions” never match up
these goviralnetwork guys cheat.
Avoid them like cancer!
Google adsense best.Don’t use adBrite.
Because I was banned in Adsense, I am trying to find alternatives. I am currently using infolinks however the earning is low.
Just an advice, don’t use Clicksor. They have annoying pop-ups that could make your site banned in search engines.
goodle adsense is head and shoulders above the rest…infolinks rates just seem to keep getting lower and lower for me
for me adbrite workrd better than bidvertiser
thanks for the list, but it seems that adbrite’s not doing good for me.. i’ll try another alternative
As it stands, Google has rejected my application to get an adsense account. So I am looking at Adbrite for my blog.
I really hope that I get through with them.
AdMaya is best in indian but i don’t like AdMaya its too cheap
I was banned from AdSense after earning just only $$ for 2+ years of honest serving. Appeal was denied. I found that my Alexa traffic ratings dropped sharply (by millions) after banning. I spent weeks to clear G from my websites.
I use Adsense, Chitika and Infolinks together. it’s the best choice for getting decent revenue from your hard work.
Hey thats a Nice List about Adsense Alternatives. And i Really Appreciate your work. Well you have not included Bidvertiser and i use this along with Adsense. i have created a Site about Hacking, Adsense and Seo and much more. i Would Like to know that which paid ad program should i choose as a new comer………………
Hope I will Recieve a Helpfull and Needed Answer From you.
Regards,
Harry Sehgal
I use Adbrite. I am very happy with it. Earning some money.
Adbrite and bidadvertiser is best for the new site owners , but buysell ads policies cannot accomodate new site owners , unless they have good pageviews…..affiliate programs are also other methods which may be useful for new site owners….
Adbrite and bidadvertiser pay low
, buyselladd won’t take us
Earlier i was get paid by admaya,adsforindians,and adhitz.
but i they had not satisfied me because their per click pay is too less around 0.02-0.03 $ per click only.
now Iam searching for something better.
Infolinks is the only real ppc alternative I’ve come across but it’s a good alternative – sometimes even paying as much as Adsense.
Adbrite has given me such pathetic cpc that it’s a joke. I typically had something like 17 clicks pay $ 0.02.
Buysellads couldn’t find any ads for my niche so they earned me nothing.
Chitika also couldn’t find anything. Hence ZERO.
Chlicksor hardly ever finds any advertiser for me but when it does, the pay is not too bad.
I was banned from my google adsense account. None other ad program have good work out for me except infolinks but problem in infolink is that. first it is inline text add program and second one very low rate. please guide me some more alternative of google adsense programm. or tell me the way.to reinsate my account with same website.
Thanx…..
Hi,
No doubt that there are many adsense alternative available such as CPM and CPC as well
Adage.com is also good.As far as Chitika is concerned I have had an experienced that there payout is too minimum and even if you have traffic there payout is really to poor and the worst is that that there ads does not show in many third world countries
Dave
I am also using infolinks. yeah it is really nice but adsense is far better.For those whose adsense account has been disabled infolinks is an good option. All you need is good traffic and worthy content.
Thanks for sharing !
Hi Dear Ruchi !
Your article can guide many people to select a good ad Net work.
I would like to share my personal experience with you and with your valuable readers.
Most of the networks you mentioned are really low paying network.
How about Clicksor (I think you missed it dear in your post )D)
It works better than others in many ways although its not very high paying but not toooo less . If you have reasonable visitors on your site you can use clicksor along with other suitable networks…They accept bloggers as well.
I want to know some picture relevant ad net works… Can I look forward to you to a write a decent post on them ?
I would like to admire your writing skills dear…Awesome ! Wish you all the best !
i too think bidvertiser is missing from the list….it is quite cool ad network with an awesome payout record
awsome article bro.BIDVERTISER is real adesense alternative as i using their ads and they are really cool
I don’t think they pay as good as Google pay. These alternatives are useful to only those who does not have the Google AdSense. And those alternative Generate very low earnings.