10 Best Google AdSense Alternatives

If you are in the field of income generation from online ads, the following message is the most dreaded one:

"Your AdSense account has been disabled or temporarily banned"

Last year, a blogger friend of mine who was making decent income from his blogs, sent me a message that his Google AdSense account has been blocked. Everything was fine when he went to sleep the previous night, but when he woke up, he discovered that nasty email from Google waiting in his inbox. His years of hard work had gone down the drain in just a few hours and he did not even know what he did wrong. Then for the next couple of days, he and I discussed the best AdSense alternatives for his blog.

Alternatives are important. Being a professional blogger is great - it's a career that has a lot of attractive advantages. But at the same time, it is a difficult and risky business. You should not keep all your eggs in one basket and in the case of blogging as well, you should not rely entirely on any one source of online income.

It is important to know some Google AdSense alternatives. There are several advertising options that you can use in the absence of AdSense.

Google AdSense is undeniably the best source of income for professional bloggers -and bloggers should not attempt any kind of cheating with Google. Any violation of AdSense policies, intentional or not, will attract heavy punishment from Google. They are very strict about following policies. Therefore, you should be aware of and use the best alternative of AdSense if need be. In this article, I will discuss some of the options that can be used in place and in addition to Google AdSense.

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1. Amazon Associates as AdSense Alternative

You definitely heard of Amazon as a major online supermarket where you can spend money on great deals. But Amazon can also help you make money! They have the Amazon Associates program, you can use as an alternative to AdSense.

Amazon has a wide variety of products and if any of these products are relevant to your niche blogs, you can advertise Amazon products on your site. If visitors purchase any product through ads on your site, you will receive a commission from this sale.

For example, if you advertise a latest gadget worth $500, and if your visitor buys it through your affiliate link, you will receive a commission ranging from $25 to $50. Amazon pays different percentage of commission for different types of products.

Amazon is a great alternative to Google AdSense. It works on Cost Per Sale basis instead of cost per click (CPC) or cost per thousand impressions (CPM) models. Amazon pays by bank transfer in the US and check anywhere else in the world. The good thing about Amazon is that you can also use it with AdSense.

2. Infolinks as Google AdSense Alternative

Infolinks is another online ads network and it is significantly visible in various blogs and websites across the Internet.

The best thing I like about Infolinks is that they have come up with some new ad layouts. Your ads are different in the style of conventional ad units. As a result, the Infolinks ads ensure low ad blindness and you have a higher rate of clicks. The bloggers who are looking for an alternative AdSense often first use Infolinks.

Infolinks is essentially a text ad network. Their script checks the contents of your blog and select certain words and phrases. Then these words and phrases are turned into links ads. Visitors can click on these links within your content and view the ads.

Infolinks also provides sliding banner ads, ads-tag (similar to AdSense link units) and announcements in-frame. All these ad formats will help you better monetize your web traffic.

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3. BuySellAds

Space on your site is like real estate, you can actually rent to advertisers. You can create ad space on your site design and sell these space to advertisers to display their ads. Now, of course, the first part is very easy, but the real problem comes in the second part. You can easily say: "I have this 728px x 90px Leaderboard advertising space on my site and I want to sell it." But someone out who would be interested in placing an ad in this space is the real challenge. This is exactly where BuySellAds comes into picture.

If you can get into BuySellAds network, it could turn out to be better than Google AdSense!

BuySellAds is a market listing to help you find buyers for your ad spaces. However, it is very difficult to get into BuySellAds network. You must have a large amount of traffic on your website. Furthermore, the traffic must be quality traffic.

If you can get an approved account from BuySellAds, you will surely love this as an alternative to Google AdSense.

4. Chitika

Founded by Venkat Kolluri and Alden DoRosario in 2003, Chitika advertising network is pretty much like Google AdSense. Just like AdSense, which serves contextual ads (ie, ads related to the content of your site), Chitika has a good reporting system.

Unlike Google AdSense, where minimum payment is $100, Chitika can pay you when you only have $10 in your account. Minimum payout is $10 if you are accepting payment via PayPal. If you choose to receive money through checks, however, the minimum payment is $50.

Another good thing about Chitika is that they serve ads only to the traffic driven by search engines. It is widely accepted that search engine traffic converts better gains.

If your AdSense account is not approved or suspended, you should sign up immediately.

Media.Net (Yahoo! Bing Network) as AdSense Alternative

Yahoo! or Microsoft could break Google's monopoly in the online advertising business. So they got together and created Media.Net. Needless to say, Media.Net is far from becoming a challenge for AdSense ad network, but still this is a good alternative to Google AdSense. Media.net is a Yahoo! and Bing joint venture.

Compared with AdSense, Media.Net allows you to have more control over the appearance of ad units. They allow you to change the color, font and form of your ad units so that they can better integrate with your website design. Media.Net has minimum payment of $100.

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5. Adversal

Adversal is another good to AdSense, especially if your site is in a language other than English. Google AdSense supports a number of major languages too. If you do not have an approved AdSense account or is prohibited, and if the site is non-English, then you certainly want to try Adversal.

It has been noticed that Chitika may not work well with non-English language sites; Adversal works like a charm. In order to get into Adversal, you need moderate traffic on your website. They generally accept sites with more than 50,000 page views per month. Adversal ads attract high CTR and your payment amount is significantly lower, you will be paid when you have $20 in your account.

6. Qadabra

Qadabra, formerly known as AdsGadget, is an advertising network that is performance-based. If you are accepting money through PayPal, you can receive a payment, even just $1, for Payoneer card minimum payment is $20 and wire transfer is $500 minimum.

Getting approval from Qadabra should not be difficult for sites with moderate traffic. Upon approval, you can add your code in your website to display the ads. Qadabra have standard ad formats as well as banners slide-in and pop-up ads.

7. RevenueHits

RevenueHits is another alternative to AdSense. It is also a network based on performance. RevenueHits was established in 2008 and now they claim to be serving about 2 billion ad impressions. RevenueHits offers not only ads to websites, but also ads to mobile apps.

All types of standard ad sizes are supported. In addition RevenueHits gives you pop-up, pop-under ads and button also. If you really need one, you can even ask for custom ad size from RevenueHits. They claim to have 100% of ad coverage worldwide. Cost per action (CPA) ads work best in RevenueHits but they also intend to offer the highest rates of CPM. RevenueHits is a promising option you should try.

8. Clicksor

Clicksor pays 60% of its ad revenue to the publisher. PayPal payment is $50 and if you want money via bank transfer, you will have to wait until you accumulate $1000 in your account. Clicksor is quite transparent in their work. They offer a CPM rate of $ 0.02 (ie you earn $ 0.02 per thousand impressions ads).

9. Helix Media Ads

You need a Skype or ICQ account in order to sign up for Propeller media ads. This is one of the largest ad networks to pop-under ads. Some of the niches that can do well in Media propeller ads are finance, software, entertainment, videos/movies, games and dating.

What is pop-under ad? A pop-under advertisement opens in a new window and then is usually minimized or be out of focus. These ads are high CTR and have high conversion rates. Media ads thruster uses On Click Pop Under approach, so as to become less intrusive for the visitors. In this approach, the ad window opens only when the visitor clicks anywhere on your site.

10. More AdSense Alternatives

There are other CPM networks. These ad networks include Tribal Fusion, CPX Media, Technorati, Advertising.com, Conversant Media, Burst Media and Adtegrity among others. You can use any of these networks as an alternative to AdSense. These ad networks give you the best CPM rates and also provide advertisements under CPC and CPA model of revenue.

Conclusion

Google may have many reasons not to approve your AdSense account or to ban it whenever they decide to. If your AdSense account has not been approved or have been banned -you should not be discouraged. Remember, AdSense is not the end of the world. As explained above, there are numerous AdSense alternatives to choose from.

There are many bloggers out there who deliberately do not use Google AdSense and earn a lot of money. So if you think AdSense is the only option for monetization, you should think again. Blogging is all about fun and good work. If you will produce good content, you will certainly have a good traffic. And there is no shortage of AdSense alternatives if you have a good traffic. So do not worry about AdSense. Just focus on producing good content. Rest assured all should follow automatically.

Okay, try the above options. These options will so much bring a sigh of relief, as well as a breath of fresh air. And, yes, please let me know your experiences!

I hope this information on the best AdSense alternative was helpful to you. If you have questions in this regard, please feel free to comment and ask. I will try my best to help you. Thank you for reading!