The most effective and well known way of monetizing a blog
is by Google Adsense. Google Adsense is no doubt the God of the online
advertising and is the most supreme, premium and high quality network. But it
is not at all easy to get approved for Adsense. They have a long list of
requirements and hurdles which you must fulfill. And their quality Assurance is
really strict. Well, this is expected from the world largest Internet Company.
Now why do we need to switch to Alternatives Ad networks? The main reasons are
either your website is not yet ready to
qualify for Adsense Or you you’re your account
terminated due to some problems. But the fact is does these alternative Ad
networks are even worth of calling Alternatives for Adsense. Generally, an
alternative is something which when replaced by the real deal, serves the same
purpose. You will find a lot of articles websites telling you the google
Adsense alternatives available online. There is a long list you can find and
most popular alternatives you will find in every list are- Clicksor, Infolinks,
Bidvitiser, chitika etc. You will also find general details about them
everywhere but in this article I am going to show you the contrast between
Adsense and Adsense alternatives and which are the real alternatives.
Now let me share my experience. As an experiment I have used
both Adsense and other Ad networks (which includes- Infolinks, Clicksor,
Chitika, infinityAds) together (not ALL at the same time though, few together
and remaining together) on one of my other blog. Now during those days the
stats of that blog was something like this-
Daily pages view- around 3000
Daily unique visitors- around 200
These are really low pages view but that was quite okay for
me as the blog was not very old at that time and I was not putting in a lot of
efforts. Anyways, so the earning stats I found on the so called Adsense
alternatives seriously made me laugh.
So at a position where I was making around $3 daily on
Adsense, The (daily) earnings on other Ad networks was as follows-
Clicksor- $0.05 – $0.1
Infolinks- $0.1 (approximately)
Chitika- $0.00 (Yes completely “0”. I was really shocked. I
don’t know may be there was some fault from my site, but I do not think so)
InfinityAds- $0.3 (I was surprised as InfinityAds Is smaller
Ad network then all the 3 networks mentioned above)
None of them was even around Adsense.
All the ads were on the same website all Ads were equally
visible. You can see the real difference I was talking about.
Moreover their Ad inventory is really poor and it also gives
the blog an unprofessional look (my personal thought)
Final conclusion-
I am not discouraging anyone to use these Ad network but I
am just showing a picture of reality. You surely cannot rely on these other
alternatives as much you can do on Adsense at lest at present (they may improve
in future). I am not denying the fact that these Ad networks may work really
really great for you. But if you are just a beginner then chances are less. Of
course you can use them in the initial stages when you are still working to
improve your blog, as something is always better then nothing. But just working
hard to increase your earning on these networks is not worth it.
Now the Ad networks you should choose if you are blog is
just a small plant (daily traffic less then 1000) right now should be the one
whose payouts are low i.e. $5 to $20. Because if you use Ad networks like
clicksor whose minimum threshold is $50, it may take you a long to reach there
and sometimes can be discouraging (of course you can reach fast if you are continuously
improving tour blog).
One such Ad network I recommend is InfinityAds. Their pay
rates are really good (as already mentioned above) and the minimum threshold is
just $5.
Also include Infolinks as it does not take space on your
website and provides intext advertising so it also worth including it.
If you have got more Ad space left then you can also include
clicksor and chitika for long run. (but I would not recommend that as blog with
lots of Ads are difficult to explore)
You can search “Tech & Online stuff” for reviews of many
Ad networks.
I am saying it again, this I my personal experience and a
general post your experience may largely differ
If you have got any questions, leave a comment in comment
section below. Leave your feedback in comment section.
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Actually, I have tried all of them as Google Alternatives. But The truth is that no one compete with Adsense at all. For smaller blogs I would advise about:
ReplyDeleteAmazon Display ads : one of LOW CPM ad network.
Bidvertisor and Clicksor: serve low-quality ads, so your site may be flagged as malicious.
Viglink, Skimlinks, Infolinks, Chitika: Low rates. Infolinks makes blogs look too busy when they use the inframe and infold ads.
RevenueHits is a SPAM ad networks. You can check it's reputation on the internet....
Adversal, Adsoptimal, Media[.]net are still BEST high paying Google Adsense alternatives for our blog. They have better designs, which provides better result next to AdSense.
From my experience, I would like to say, don’t limit yourself to any one AD NETWORK. Try other ad networks and see which one work the best with your micro-niche blog. Since you are trying micro-niche blog, try monetizing with affiliate products. I would recommend to you & for others to try more network, and figure out which one is working best for their blog type.
have tried Google Adense several times with different websites, blogs and changing contents. All the time they have rejected without a reason. Looking at Google search I have tried alternatives which was mentioned in this post. No use, from Infolinks I just earned 6 cents after one month. Unless the ads displayed are very attractive and good, no body will click, Most of the times, infolinks popup ad, people cut them as it is disturbing.
ReplyDeleteSo finally it is very difficult to earn single cent through internet. All are cheating and bogus.
Regards
Ashley Jones
crazyask.com