adsense alternative?

[paymaster7]

Well, does anyone know of any good adsense alternatives? As in the 4 ads on the top format, content-targeted rotating ads format, and pays... say at least 50% as well as adsense? Soooo tired of google.
john

[cwsteam.com]

I haven't seen any except for doing affiliate stuff.

[paymaster7]

hmmm.. well if anyone knows of any, that would be great. i will also keep my eyes peeled.

[David G]

At this time Adsense has no real competition and are the main player by far and there are no viable alternatives from what I can tell for most small or midsize traffic websites.

Perhaps MSN and Yahoo will compete in the future but not sure if they will but both have the best chance to compete if they decide to do so.

[Ross1982]

Stick with Google, they are by far the best.

[paymaster7]

eh, google has illegal exclusion and termination policies, it's only a matter of time before they get sued bigtime. that's why i'm looking around.

[diverge]

Did a quick search (on Google, no less) and came up with a few that tout AdSense competition (http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...nse+competitor). Let us know if you find one that works for you! The top result is an interesting article about CJ adapting to compete in this marketplace (http://www.masterofweb.com/item/243)

[mudi]

I know 2 names come to my mind after google adsense..

Adhearus & Clicksor

but Adsense still is #1

[Alfarin]

I'm on Adhearus after adsense terminated my account with over 100 bucks in credits claiming that I have fradulent clicks which I did not generate. After 8 months, my total profit is 3 bucks. Stick with adsense and juice whatever you can get out of it...

[GiantDomains]

I've seen similar ads, I think lycos does something like adsense.

[Whois-Search]

Mirago

[Steen]

Mirago

Shh, don't let out our secret! :-D



I don't think you will find anything that will perform as well as Adsense without some special contacts

[anton#1]

I don't get it. What is the big difference between Adsense and all those other programs as CJ, darkblue, etc ...? They existed long before Adsense, and I guess they are all facing though competition from Google right now.

[paymaster7]

hmm. is mirago any good? just looked...

[Alfarin]

AdSense = PPC
CJ = PPA

PPC = Pay Per Click
PPA = Pay Per Action

In other words, with AdSense, you only need to deliver traffic to the advertiser's site while with CJ, you will need to deliver customer to the advertiser's site. When it all boils down, unless you're doing one of those "free ________" sites, where you get people to sign up for services or purchase goods through you, you will find AdSense to be more profitable than CJ.

[anton#1]

In the past I bought traffic from clixgalore. You could choose between different progams:
From their website: "build your own 'click - CPC', 'sale - CPA', 'lead - CPL' or CPM based affiliate program".
So you can opt for an 'Adsense' (CPC) like program.

[MediaHound]

But, adsense ads are generated on the fly, with one simpe javascript you can add to all your pages / sites.
A lot of these sites you guys are talking about you need to pick and choose each item you want to promote, one at a time, with special code for all of them.

Are you guys missing the point?
There are hundreds of thousands of affiliate programs you could join and promote, but very few are designed like adsense is.

[paymaster7]

i just can't believe that no one has a viable alternative to adsense (in terms of being a content targeted ppc ad publishing program that pays as well or even half as well).
It's just....weird. I guess adsonar (quigo, overture) was trying to fill that gap, but they seem to have gotten sidetracked or something - not much progress from that realm.
And the existing ones like Clicksor and AdHearUs just don't have a big enough network of sites to deal with content-specific ads. And the pay is a pittance.
Here's hoping someone else comes up with an alternative. Monopolies on anything are not good.

[Hey]

I heard http://www.bidclix.com/ was nice haven't tried em out yet .

Did some more searching and found http://www.allfeeds.com im really considering this program no idea how they pay though . The ads are identical to google's with just the words allfeeds , i probably will use them as an alternative to PSA's soon i'll see how it goes and i'll report back here :-D

[geekpipe]

yes i too have seen bixclix.com but never looked into them. I personally use azoogleads.com and primaryads.com