Alternatives to Adsense?

[Brad]

Most website owners decide to list Adsense ads on their website in order to gain a bit of revenue. I've been using the ad network for over 3 months and I'm still not even near my £60 cash out limit, but I'm literally earning £0.01 per click which is not great when I'm only getting a few clicks per day.

Does anyone have any better alternatives to Adsense which pay out more?

 

[Jon]

Amazon do a good alternative which seems to work well for others

I would depend on what website you are running the ads on I guess - can you show us?

 

[Brad]

http://gamegeeks.net/

I'm currently running it on my gaming blog. I'm not looking to make profit from the blog, I just want to make some money so I can put it into certain things such as graphics and the theme.

 

[Jon]

ahhhhhhhhhhhh Wordpress - my favourite blogging software.

The template you have used it great and the content looks very good as well.

personal comment : I would stay away from reviews - those are covered by the likes of IGN and Gamespot etc. I would stay to hot news and gossip that will bring people into the site, also controversial opinion on a blog never goes wrong

What are you doing to get the big scoops? Just trawling sites like NeoGaf etc and then posting about stuff on the blog?

 

[Brad]

We don't have many reviews, but I guess the occasional review doesn't hurt.

Are you meaning about where we get our news from?

 

[Jon]

Yeah if you want blogs to grow you need a reason for going to them (ie new content)

 

[mnporter2001]

Im an adsense user, and have been for 2+ years and I normally make the £60 threshold every 3 mths so an average year would see me take £240 although in the last 2 months my earnings have started to rise, so im hoping to start making the threshold every 2 mths shorty

In my opinion google adsense is by far the best generic ad network, so unless you have a really unique niche its a no brainer

Cheers
Mark

 

[Brad]

How popular is your site? How many impressions do you get monthly?

 

[mnporter2001]

Its actually not just one site but something called a "ring" of proxy websites, I would say maybe around 8 sites in this ring and these are this months adsense stats:


Visits Clicks
AdSense for Content 14,059 88

And that has made £19.59 so far this mth

Cheers
Mark

 

[Brad]

Not bad at all. It's much better than me. I have no plan to stop as I know it will increase over time, but it just seems way too low at the moment.

How long did it take until you started to earn this type of money?

 

[mnporter2001]

Well the truth to that question Brad was the minute I got of my arse and did some SEO work, and some advertising, up to then it was making pennies a mth.

Its all about driving the end user to your site, that's the long and the short of it.

Cheers
Mark

 

[Jon]

just gonna leave this inspirational black and white artsy fartsy picture here

 

[Brad]

just gonna leave this inspirational black and white artsy fartsy picture here

I totally agree with this. I've heard people say it time and time again and it's still one of the best sayings when it comes to a website. I'll just keep with content and hope it improves.

 

[Blackpepper1]

just gonna leave this inspirational black and white artsy fartsy picture here

I just found this which is really useful. Gives you ideas on Blog Content. Loads of articles etc. Might help anyone who has a Blog:
http://www.copyblogger.com/create-content-infographic/

 

[Jon]

There is some really good content in there for making decent blogs

sort of like Blogging for Cash 101

 

[The Funky Blue Dog]

Great link - thanks Blackpepper

 

[Skinnylatte]

Hi Brad, I treid Skimlinks but it was no where near as good as Adsense. I would focus on getting more traffic and also searching for profitable keywords to write about to so you might get more than 1p per click