Your blog has more earning potential than you can even imagine. So many ways you can earn through your blog. But mainly you can put in two groups. One- On site/Blog Advertising. Two- Referral programs. I will go first with the On Blog advertising potential/opportunities. I put together as much as resourceful list, I avoided some due to their legitimacy concern and the most common one as we all no about that: Google adsense.
Blogads.com is a network of influential bloggers who collaborate to promote and sell blog advertising. Advertisers order, manage and renew fixed-period ads or sponsorships on your blog. Blogads do the search and negotiation with advertisers, In exchange they took 30% of your ad revenue.
The Good: Flexible advertisement design, total control on ad appears in your blog. Networked with other blog that runs Blogads, which gives your blog traffic boost.
The Bad: They take so called 30% of your earned revenue which sounds excessive for new bloggers. Blogads is now invitation only. To participate in Blogads, you need to be sponsored by a blogger in the network. Or you can ask for adding your application in queue to wait if anyone sponsors you.
The Catch: There isn’t any certainty, whether you will have a sponsor in near future. They say 30% they will get, but practically they also take transaction/processing cost of advertiser’s payment and cost to send you payment both. So practically about 45% goes in there pocket. And their Terms and Condition for publishers isn’t flexible, if you discontinue publishing an advertisers ad, you have to pay the amount advertiser paid to Blogads.
It’s a blog advertising network, targeted for bloggers. It’s dose not serve as a contextual advertising. You choose what text or graphical ad will be displayed. 70% revenue of generated by CPC will be given to you. Second option they have is if your site is useful enough having a monthly sponsor, on a price given by you.
The Good: Minimum payout just $5 through paypal. You are selecting the ad which will be displayed, so no reason to worry about odd advertisements. Does not violate Google Adsense terms and condition, if you put in the same page. Have Blog catalog, which help your own blog advertisement to others (free of cost).
The Bad: 70% is a little less share where most of the bigger ad network, gives 100%. CPC rates are reported to be low & fixed, doesn’t affected by page impressions. My research shows that you have to wait very long time to get a monthly sponsor, sometimes you won’t get. From one unique user they count only one click, even if that unique user came back after 24-36 hours.
The Catch: Low rate CPC, bigger share for the network, small network, highly unlikely to get good payment out of it.
Another advertising network, that recently lunch Blog advertisements. They offer both targeted advertisement and fixed ad (non targeted sponsor’s ad). They have CPC(cost per Click), CPM (Cost Per-Thousand Impression) or just straight insertion on monthly/yearly advertising contract. ! There are no fees to join the BURST! network. Revenue is split between the Publisher and BURST! based on the publisher’s contract rate. You get 50%(monthly contract), 55% (One year contract), 60% (Three years contract).
The Good: High rate of CPC and CPM compare to other ad network.
The Bad: You need to have minimum of 10,000 page views per month, and also have to fit in their eligible criteria. Once you are in contract, you can not opt-out, without pay them off. The CPC and CPM advertisement violates most of the contextual ad network policy including Google Adsense.
The Catch: My God they are taking half of your earning. You need to agree to post our Demographic Survey somewhere on the site. They control advertisements, not you.
This is an advertising network solution for RSS feeds of your blog. Pheedo pays you 65% of all advertising revenue generated by your feeds and sites. They don not provide any adult advertising.
The Good: Support multiple advertisements in every page of your blog. Doesn’t violets Google Adsense policy. A simple cut-and-paste advertising code snippet enables you to launch ads, and start making money, in minutes. Compatible with any blogging software.
The Bad: Available only for US publishers and Paypal is only payout method. Need technical knowledge to get proper results.
The Catch: 45% plus processing fees goes in their pocket, which is very high. The advertising isn’t controlled by you, so what ad is displaying, is that compatible to your content you never know. 60 days to get paid, too long time to wait.
Well the yahoo counterpart of Google’s Adsense. But unlike Adsense, still in beta status and the rates are not clear. According to my research they provide content ads, ads for search & Ads for your RSS. The yahoo site doesn’t reveal all the information yet.
The Good: Since it’s provided by Yahoo! You can bet there is quality and privacy. They have CPC which may not be as high as Google, but more than average. If for some reason you are unable to sign up for Google’s Adsense, this would be perfect alternative.
The Bad: There isn’t any CPM rate available. The payout rate is low compare to adsense. Not enough information provided by yahoo, before signing up.
The Catch: It’s still under test, so expected to generate wrong calculation in your page impression. No matter how good yahoo is still the rate, the flexibility is still isn’t there to make it your No. 1 choice.
A lot more like adsense. But currently provide only text ads on a contextual manner. Rates are lower than adsense but average to other network. Provide text ad link plus referral programs to publisher.
The Good: Customizable ad content, ability to set prices for the ad that will be shown. You can moderate the ad management. Have CPC and ads for search just like adsense.
The Bad: No banner ads available. Limited configuration, if you put in the same page with Google adsense for search, might violate Google’s policy.
The Catch: Good option can be used as secondary advertising network, but not as the main like Google. So it is recommended to use it together with other ad network, but careful about TOS always.
A large contextual advertising network targeted for both Blogs and traditional web. They have Pop up & under, Pay per click search, Banner advertising, Traffic exchange, layer ads. Also offer referral and advertising program for publisher. Means you can earn through referral and also you can ad in other clicksor network, using your earning.
The Good: Multiple customizable option, in line advertising, advertising opportunity for free(somewhat).
The Bad: Some of the features of this network violate Google and other networks TOS, like pop up & under, traffic exchange. Low CPC rate. Very low referral earning.
The Catch: Careful what you choose, if you do not moderate your advertisement, it might cost you more than you will earn, since clicksor allow adult ads. Use it as secondary ad rather than primary. Better away from main page.
Yet another contextual type advertising network. 75% of per CPC is your share. Though they say they provide banner ads, but practically never seen one. Worth a shot but not alone, in addition with other ad network.
Supports only pay per click ads. Have full control on advertisement that will be shown in your blog or site. Templates system makes it easy to track and design the ads looks and earning. And nicest part is you can see how much the advertisers bidding for every click from your site. Downside the CPC rate is lower than adsense.
Serve contextual advertisements to your blog. An European company (French) at its start-up. Payout can be either in paypal or moneybookers. CPC rate is above average, and you will have total control on the ad shown in your blog. Problem, customizing the panel is time consuming. Better to serve as a secondary network than primary.
This one is unique trust me. In my opinion the second best alternatives/ addition of Google Adsense you will ever need. They have two kinds of unique service. . Adpoint - an automatic service that enables web publishers to capitalize on their traffic by displaying targeted ads with no effort on their part. Exitpoint - a revolutionary service that provides web publishers targeted advertising capabilities for external links without the need to manually categorize them. And best of all very good rate of CPC, almost same as adsense.
Fairly new company, in targeted advertising network. But notable, you can run there ads with Google adsense or any other ads without violating any TOS. High CPC rates and you can also set your desired price. Provide banners, skyscrapers, towers, and pop-up/under advertisements. Also have advertisers network, where your site will be listed once you sign up for the publisher account.
Very much favorable by many web contents owners. With Chikita eMiniMalls you can hand-select specific products (or product categories) targeted to the content of your webpage, and provides your users with robust comparative shopping information to make an informed buying decision - before they leave your site. As users click, you make money. Compatible with Google adsense. Problem- you got to have high traffic, otherwise you won’t be accepted.
From here on I will just list down the sites, if anyone feel that I should review on any site let me know. I will try to add as much information I can every now and than, keep checking. Note: These are new or not yet reviewed sites, so before using those lease take your time to research and compare. As soon as I can I will put some thoughts on these.
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Owao! man you collected a huge infos. Searched whole net, coulden’t find that much anywhere. Thanks a lot.
Few questions?
1. How will i know that if i choose one of those you said above, won’t violate adsense rule?
2. Is there any other company like Chikita? that support inline advertising?
Will wait for your Part-two
Ok first of all thanks for comment
Adsense have 3 types of program, adsense for search,referral and content, i think you have already noticed that.
if you Adsense for referral along with other referral programs, it won’t violate Adsense policy
But if you are using Adsense for search, same page you can’t use any other advertising programs search methods(for example adbrite,clicksor have one search option just like Google’s Adsense for search).
Same goes with Adsense for content, you can not use any other contexual Ad, on the same page you used google Adsense for contents.
But you can use bannar ads, or other ad which is not contexual.
Yes Clicksor have inline advertisement just like chikita, my front page is example. More information you can get in Clicksor site.
when will you publish the Part Two? waiting for it
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