How I discovered an amazing amount of high quality Google
Adsense Alternatives.
Author: Bert Colijn
A 52 year old webmaster from the Netherlands got banned from the
Google Adsense program in just a few clicks. He went looking
around for alternatives and found a lot of very creative brand
new advertising solutions. That webmaster was me. Do as I did
and you will get a message like:
* Your account is disabled because of invalid clicks.
What was all the fuzz about? The adsense account was set up for
my website www.wereldwijdbellen.nl , wich I started one year
earlier as an affiliate for a German / American Voip company
(voice over IP, internettelephony). At that time Adsense was new
for me and I decided to give it a try. Doing some cutting,
copying and pasting with the codes and voila, I was advertising
competing Voip companies on my website.
Spyware was already a big nuisance on the internet at that time.
In my battle against it I experimented with anonymous surfing
via so called anonymizers and proxyservers with the purpose of
hiding my IP address. Simply just out of curiosity, whether or
not the number of clicks on my ads could be influenced, I
produced them and guess what happened? They were interpreted as
invalid clicks. Adsense disabled my account and I have to admit
it : they had a good reason to do so (stupid me, what a shame).
However It was never my intention to harm the advertisers nor
anyone else.
* I realised that the possibility to earn money with these ads
had gone forever.
For hardworking affiliate webmasters, generating 100% of their
multiple website income through Adsense, this must be a
nightmare. Google has no obligation to explain its decision in
detail.
So I begged to Google: Here are my sincere apologies. I'll never
do it again pleas let me in again !!!
No way, don't waste your time, forget about it, don't pull on a
dead horse. Google won't unlock your account again. Remember we
live in the internet age and everything is automated. Google's
answers to my sincere and arguing emails were no exception. They
were completely robotized. So would this be the end of a dream
earning an income with my website? Answer: NO. As the famous
Dutch football player Johan Cruyff ones stated:
* Every disadvantage has its advantage.
I decided that I had to forget about Adsense forever being an
internet advertising possibility for me and guess what I found
out ? I was not the only one and this nightmare of the
possibility of getting banned is discussed in forums all over
the internet now. You want proof? Just google (yes this is a new
verb) with "banned from adsense" and you will see. But what is
more important is that the alternatives are given in these
forums and on individual sites as well. Here I'am going to share
with you what I discovered.
Clickbank-ad-sense-script, a new program that serves Clickbank
based affiliate products in your website. These ads resemble
adsense ads but a lot of webmasters are preferring them. Unlike
pay per click this program pays for every sale you make in over
11,000 Clickbank products. The yield is higher than adsense
because it pays you between 50 and 75% of product cost, wich can
mean $ 100 in your pocket from only one click.
Clickbank-ad-sense lets you make a selection of your favorite
products that you believe are not competing with your own
product. Similar programs are: AffiliateSensor and CBPlugin.
* You want more money making advertising solutions? Just read on.
Another creative way of adding something new is done by Chitika.
Their eMiniMall is a CPC-based intelligent product merchandising
service. Alternative to static web banner ads it combines
product merchandising, a recommandation engine and comparative
shopping. Go to Chitika.com and have a look for yourself. One
picture says more then a thousand words.
* There are pros and cons and every rose has its thorn but what
do you think of this one?
Adbrite sells ad space on thousands of websites. There are two
things you can do with Adbrite - buy and sell ad space. If you
are an advertiser they provide you with all sorts of websites.
When you find the site you want to advertise on, you write your
ad and pay. If approved by the webmaster your ad will appear on
that site at the scheduled time. If you are a publisher you can
set your own rates and approve or reject every ad that's
purchased for your site. The revenue is split 75/25 in your
favour. Adbrite provides publishers with more revenue and better
ads by selling the ads directly to your visitors - this is
something the other ad systems don't do.
* The pay-per-click contextual advertising has grown into a $ 3
billion business.
Thanks to Google's Adsense network contextual advertising, with
the short text based links that appear next to a website's
content, is a very hot item on the internet now. Steve Balmer
recently introduced Microsoft's version called Adcenter and
Yahoo unveiled a pay-per-click beta program called Yahoo
Publisher Network (YPN).
Let me give you my impressive "competitors" list that I have
found in my search to survive my ban from Adsense :
adbrite, adcenter (beta), adengage, adgenta, adhearus, adsclick,
affiliatesensor, allfeeds, bannerboxes, bidclix, bidvertiser,
cbadwords, cbplugin, chitika, clicksaddirect, clicksor,
contextweb, expoactive, fastclick, infograbber, intellitxt,
kanoodle, mirago , miva, nixxie, quigo, revenuepilot,
targetpoint, yahoo ypn (coming soon...).