Adsense Alternatives

We all know that Google Adsense is the market leader in PPC networks, it is far ahead of any of its competitors, obviously down to Googles search engine popularity which gained them to traffic to maximise there Adsense network, its payouts are the best for any PPC publisher and also has a good advertising program for its advertisers in AdWords.

However Google AdSense and Ad words are not the be all and end all for publishers and advertisers, in fact it can be somewhat expensive for some businesses and also only certain niches will work. There lots of alternatives out there waiting to provide you with revenue. Some good and some bad I hope to point out some alternatives on this page.

Google AdSense - The downsides.

Google AdSense is incredibly strict and it's not unusual for people to get an email from Google AdSense saying your site breaches our terms or you get the dreaded Google AdSense has disabled ad serving on your website, with one simple email can wipe out your site revenue.

I understand they have to protect their advertisers 100%, but what happened to the human element what happened to partnerships? Ive had sites in AdSense for years and then for them mercylessly thrown out, so sometimes it seems unfair, however this isnt a page moaning about Googles policys.

What Usearchme.com wants to achieve.

We want to provide a quality Publisher program for people with good content websites; we can be more flexible than Google AdSense and let some sites that probably wouldn't fit their criteria.

We want to work with Advertisers and publishers, to help them get better from their website and when you email us, we will actually reply, even if its bad news.

Let me make this clear I do not expect to ever be anywhere near as popular as Google AdSense, however I would like to get to a point where publishers can get a decent pay-out for their traffic, this depends on your niche of course and how much traffic you have.

I welcome any feedback from advertisers and publishers so please feel free to contact me anytime.

Other PPC Publisher networks on offer.

• Google Adsense - The best program by FAR, if you are not in this program then apply as it's the best way to monetise your website.
• Pros - Best paying cost per click program going, reliable service with no down time also has good reporting options on your Google AdSense dashboard, pay-outs always on time. Easy to add your site to the dashboard and Add Google's Ads to your website, also the JavaScript is clean.
• Cons - Hard to get into (which isn't always a bad thing) as quality is key, however some sites are not allowed in some niches adult for example, can be overly strict sometimes and lacks customer support.
• Support can sometimes be poor often you spend a lot of time on Google forums trying to get a reply on there, if you email them don't expect a reply for 48 hours; ultimately AdSense lacks customer service that seems to care about the publishers. This is probably because of their own success they have so many publishers and so many websites it is probably hard to service them all.
• Chitkia- Is a very good provider with very good reporting options, Chitika was even recommended by Yahoo Publishers service after that closed in 2010. I did use it for a short time and got an average return, also it seemed to only pay me for impressions and they were split into 2 sections normal and foreign traffic, which was a bit confusing as there were 2 pay out screens.
• Pros - Again good dashboard with good reporting options has a good range of adverts available and Chitika ads have images on them too, to make them stand out. Pay-outs can be via PayPal which is handy and you do get paid on time.
• Cons - There are some issues with the relevancy of the ads served, which to me isn't a major issue, I don't care who advertises on my site if they are paying the most, but some users might not like this. Pay for impressions and clicks is very low compared to AdSense.
• Bid Vertiser - Bid Vertiser is a bit of an enigma, as it has a massive following however it's not at the top of my list due to them once not paying out, just as I got to my pay-out threshold they cancelled my account, which seems fishy to me, so I can't really recommend them.
• Pros - It does have a nice dashboard if a little basic, but it works, there is a wide range of advert layouts you can use too. The major plus of Bid Vertiser is its ease of use, its very easy to setup a campaign and also register as a publisher, you can have your adverts up and running within a few minutes of registering.
• Cons - You might NOT get paid, as happened to me I never received a payment from them for all the time I've been in their program; however I might have been unlucky who knows. It can all seem a bit basic, and I ran their XML ads on one of my sites and the pay-out was terrible, wasn't even 1 cent a click!
• Also their JavaScript is NOT CLEAN see the clean JavaScript section on this page, and if you are an advertiser, their clicks do seem quite expensive in some niches.
• Clicksor - Clicksor is a company I have tried a few times, but I never seem to have much luck with it, however I am no expert with publishing adverts on my sites. When I added their code to my pages the pay-out was very low.
• Pros - Easy to use dashboard and easy to use ads with many formats, good support with a LIVE CHAT facility available. Clicksor also provide inline adverts along with AdSense style adverts and formats.
• Cons - Very low pay-outs and JavaScript isn't clean, don't use the inline ads, they interrupt users browsing and are incredibly annoying.
• AdBrite - AdBrite have been around for a long time and I did use them for a while quite successfully, I am not sure what happened to them, they seemed to change their site and people lost interest in Ad brite. I have used their publisher many times but the pay-outs are very low and on the odd occasion I didn't even had any ads running on my site only seemingly default low pay-out ads.
• Pros - Easy to use and add your site, nice option to switch between advertiser and publisher, they also provide inline ads. As well as the traditional AdSense style ads and formats.
• Cons - Low pay-out and the JavaScript is ugly, very big and complex.
• Chitika.

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