Don’t want to work with Google AdSense? No problem. For those who don’t want or can’t work with Google, there are 8 reasons you would consider many alternative ad networks available.
There are many reasons to look for alternative ad networks and other ways to monetize your sites. The most popular reasons I hear are:
1. Google AdSense rejects many sites for not having enough content or if they feel your site would not be appropriate for their advertisers.
2. Getting a site approved for Google AdSense is not as easy as it was in the past.
3. If you read any of the internet marketing or webmaster forums, I’m sure you’ve see thread after thread with a title that goes something like… “AdSense banned me! Why?”
4. Google AdSense has a lot of rules and they monitor sites constantly. If you happen to break even one rule, they will not just ban the site, they will ban you and won’t let you open a new AdSense account. And even if you manage to open one somehow and they catch you later, they will ban the new account.
5. Did you know that if you even accidentally click on an ad on your site you could be banned for life?
6. Many site owners feel that Google AdSense rules are just too strict. Conforming to the many rules often leads to site design issues.
7. In some instances, you have to redesign your entire site just so you can use Google AdSense.
8. Contextual text ads sometimes just don’t fit a site’s design and layout. Other ad formats that Google AdSense does not support work better on many sites.
Types Of Ads
Now let’s briefly take a look at the main types of ads available to publishers looking to shift to an AdSense alternative.
Targeted Text Ads: These ads are text-based and are usually found in groups. They are targeted to match the site’s content or the search phrase that was used on a search engine to bring them to your site’s page.
In-Text: These styles of ads popup when you hover over selected text phrases with your mouse. A small box pops up and usually contain either images, text or video as well as the ad’s link.
Display: Display ads contain images, headlines, body text and other elements used to get a viewer’s attention. Sizes range from eighth page to full page ads.
Banner: These are your typical image ads you see on many sites. They can be just the image or an image with a text line above or below it. Sizes range from button size to half page and come in all orientations.
You should also checkout some native ad networks, mobile ad networks, CPM based ad networks and affiliate ad networks to explore alternate monetization options.
12 Alternative Ad Networks To Google Adsense
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Adsterra is one of the fastest growing premium ad networks and currently serves over 10 billion geo-targeted ad impression per month. They offer various popular ad formats for web and mobile devices: popunders, standard banners, pushups, interstitial, sliders, and direct links.
They work with website from all types of niches and have a great ad fill rate for all countries.
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PopAds specializes in pop-under ad delivery.
They claim that their average earnings for a site that receives 1000 unique visitors a day is $4.00 a day.
You can select the minimum bid you will accept from advertisers as well as setting the frequency with which the pop-under ads display to site visitors.
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Chitika is an online advertising network with over 350,000 publishers. They serve over four billion targeted ads per month. Chitika has several top tier advertising partners like Yahoo!, SuperMedia and HomeAdvisor.
Since the Chitika ads are search targeted, they work best with websites that get most of their traffic from search engines.
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RevenueHits is a fairly new ad network and looks very promising. They offer a nice variety of ad types including banner, pop-under, sliders, top and footer style banners, buttons, and interstitials.
They offer both contextual and geo-targeted ads. They are a performance-based network (CPA), not a CPC or CPM network.
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BidVertiser pays you on both clicks and conversions. This could help you make more money from your sites.
Text ads, banner ads, mobile ads and slider ads are available. They offer publishers a point-and-click ad builder tool that helps you to customize the ads to fit the look and feel of your site.
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Media.Net gives you exclusive access to the Yahoo! Bing Network. They are one of the world’s largest contextual ad networks and boast many top publishers like Forbes, ELLE, Reuters, and Good Housekeeping.
Media.Net offers publishers several ad styles. Do note however that they only allow one of each ad type to appear on a page.
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Adversal is an excellent alternative to AdSense if your site gets over 50,000 page views per month. They have fast approvals but make sure your site meets their requirements before you apply to be a publisher.
They offer various banner sizes and types to publishers. Pop-unders and ministitial type ads are also available for publisher use.
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Infolinks ad network currently serves targeted ads on over 125,000 websites. They work best on sites that contain large amounts of text based content.
Infolinks indexes your pages to determine the best ads to display. Several types of ads are available to publishers for use on their sites.The main ad type Infolinks provides is their in-text ad links.
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Clicksor offers publishers multiple ad formats including clickable text and targeted contextual banner ads for use on their sites.
All ads displayed to your site’s visitors are context sensitive. This way your site visitors see ads that they will be more likely to click. Clicksor also offers an affiliate program that pays a 10% commission.
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Intellilinks lets you sell simple text links on your sites to advertisers for a set monthly fee. The more traffic you have and the better your search engine rankings, the higher you can set your monthly charge.
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PopMyAds is a pop-under ad network that accepts publishers and traffic from all countries.
They provide quick site approval; many times in under one hour.
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PropellerAds is a large ad network that specializes in pop-under ads but also provides standard banner ads, on-click ads and in-banner video ads. They also have sliders, sponsored links and other ad formats available for publishers.
Now it’s time for you to explore all the options you have and pick the
ad networks that works best for you, your sites and your goals.
