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Chitika allows you to display targeted products based on what people searched for to get to your page and you get paid for clicks. It provides a robust comparative shopping experience for your visitors. Visitors will love the interactive search code -- and it makes you money

Click here to visit Chitika's website and sign up today.

AdBrite :

AdBrite’s aim is to provide our publishers with the most control, best service, and highest payout possible. You can choose to review each ad before it appears on your site. You can set the price for ads bought directly on your site. You can even have AdBrite show another ad network (your Google AdSense ads, Burst, etc.) if they can’t meet your minimum revenue requirement.

AdBrite

Instant, free setup No software to install, just 4 lines of HTML You set pricing for your site Accept all major credit cards Small, non-intrusive text links (40 chars) are a pleasure Approve or reject each link for your site Automated link start and expiration Track success with AdBrite Statistics Included in AdBrite's site directory.

AdBrite, is currently one of the best alternatives there is to Google's adsense. While they do not offer the same large selection of ad formats that Clicksor and Google Adsense provide you they do offer the most commonly used ones. In addition they offer inline page links with have some great click through ratios as well as interstitial full page ads which offer an excellent way to monetize all traffic to your site not just traffic that clicks on your ads. Their payouts are also very competitive. They have more relaxed terms and conditions than Adsense and are much more accepting of smaller publishers including bloggers.

If you're a publisher, use AdBrite to set your own ad rates, and approve or reject every ad that's purchased for your site or just have AdBrite auto accept ever ad. AdBrite enables you to instantly sell ads to your visitors via a "Your Ad Here" link, in addition to selling through AdBrite's marketplace and sales team.

Revenue is typically split 75/25 in your favor. Through a small snippet of HTML placed on your site, they handle serving, scheduling, billing, customer service, and sales. About half of AdBrite's sales are generated from the marketplace and sales team, while the other half are generated from users clicking "Your Ad Here" on your website.

While AdBrite can provide publishers with more revenue and better ads than traditional ad networks such as Google AdSense, they work fine along-side them as a way for you to generate additional ad revenue by selling ads directly to your visitors -- something the other ad systems don't do. Ad Brite also lets you select your own minimum bid prices and give you the option of showing an alternative ad service such as Clicksor when bid prices fall below your minimum.

If you're using AdBrite on your website you also have the option to turn off AdBrite's "run-of-network ads" and AdBrite will only display ads that have been approved by you allowing you to prevent competitors ads being shown on your site. If you have no ads running, AdBrite will display nothing but "Your Ad Here" or your alternative ad provider.

Note, from my experiences it can take a day or so from when you signup with AdBrite and put their code on your website to actually start seeing relevant ads showing up. So if you see the message "Advertize on this site" just be patient and give it a day or so and you should start seeing relevant ads showing up.

Cliksor
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ValueClick :

At first look FastClick would appear to be one of the better alternatives to Google's Adsense however, they are one of many online advertising companies that tend to favor the large customers. You'd think companies would have learnt from Google's success and accepted that the way to make money is to target both large and small. Remember Excite? They went the way of the dodo because they only targeted the top 100 companies rather than the small guys who can't afford large TV adverts and have to advertise on the Internet instead. Anyway, I digress. If you can get yourself accepted to FastClick (now called ValueClick) then you will probably be able to run some reasonably high paying adverts on your site but most small website owners will find that FastClick simply aren't interested.

Advertising wise FastClick (ValueClick) offer an industry-average 65-percent monthly payout on all advertising revenue your website generates. Fastclick pays by the 25th of the month for the previous month by check or PayPal.

Formats include:

Text Ads
Image Ads
Interstitial
Pop-Under
InVue

BidVertiser

Place the BidVertiser text ads on your website and make money online by getting paid for every click.. Always have the highest bidders displayed on your website. Have your bidding steadily improved over time. Customize the layout of your ads. Block any unwanted ad. Generate reports to monitor your ads performance. Make money from your website.

Bidvertiser can be a useful alternative to Google and offer some intriguing ad formats including what they refer to as free design. This lets you specify the look and dimensions of your text ads. While a useful feature I have not investigated how well it works but imagine that while it sounds good on paper it could result in lower priced ads being displayed. I.e. most advertisers will probably want to keep control of the layout of their ads and so turn off support for Free design ads.

Bidvertizer pays you either in $25.00 increments by check or $10.00 increments by PayPal.

Customize the layout of your ads: BidVertiser gives you a simple point-and-click tool to help you customize the layout of the ads to fit your site's look and feel, in order to retain the high quality of your website. Bidvertizer also offers the opportunity to block unwanted ads. The reports provided by Bidvertiser are adequate but not outstanding. The only real problem is that they can be picky with who they accept into their program and can be quick to ban users whose websites show what may be perfectly valid fluctuating visitor behaviour. Click here to visit Bidvertiser's website where you can either sign up as a publisher (show peoples ads on your site) or as an advertiser (show your ads on other sites).

As an advertiser you can get $20 in free clicks by following this link: Bidvertiser Advertise and get $20 in free clicks.

RevenuePilot

RevenuePilot Network: Industry's Largest Payouts Industry’s Highest Bid Prices High Quality Search Results Internet’s Leading Advertisers Many Linking Options to Choose from Fast and Timely Payouts. Superb Customer Support Revenue Pilot provides you with the most innovative, efficient and effective way to monetize your traffic. The Pay For Performance (PFP) and the Pay Per Click (PPC) markets have created ample opportunity for the web publishing community to turn your web traffic into pure profits. RevenuePilot offers affiliates seamless entrance into this highly profitable arena through its Premiere Pay Per Click Network. Check or Paypal min. $25 monthly payout.

Clicksor is one of the current leaders of the small publisher Adsense competition. They have payouts upto a market leading 85% and unlike a number of alternatives the cost per click bid values are high enough that you can earn a decent income. They are also, in my experience, much more tollerant than Google. Their terms and conditions suggest that you should only place one copy of their code on a page but as long as you only place a single pop-up or DHTML code on a page they seem happy to let you place many context sensitive ad blocks on a single site.

Clicksor also has a big advantage over a number of the lower ranked alternatives on this site in that their ads are truly context sensitive. Thus while you can provide keywords they have technology that will also show ads targeted to the content of your site. This means your visitors are exposed to ads of the same subject as they were searching for when they reached your site and thus vastly increases the click thru ratio and thus your sites earning potential. The context sensitive nature also saves you the hassle of having to specify keywords for all of your sites and decide in advance what people might be looking for.

The online stats provided by Clicksor are not perfect but they are enough for you to keep track of the trends with your site. They also allow you to add as many sites / domains as you want under a single account. You also only need the root page of your site approved. Once this is done you can place ads on all of your sub pages.

The payment schedule with Clicksor is also much better geared to the small site owner. In any pay period in which your earnings exceed $50.00 ($20.00 with PayPal), payments are made either by check or instantly through PayPal ($20.00 minimum for PayPal). Revenue totaling less that $50 (PP $20) will rolled into the following period. The pay period is based on a 15 day schedule so you can get paid much more frequently. Clicksor also do not require a Social Security (SSN) or Individual Tax Identity Number (ITIN) to join and so while this 'technically' does not help US site owners with their tax liability it does make it much easier for non US citizens to join up and start earning revenue.

Advert wise Clicksor features:

Multiple formats available including text, image and animated ads.

Text Links
Image Ads
Flash Ads
Animation Ads
Banners
Pop unders
Interstitial Ads (NEW)
Dynamic (DHTML) highlighting

Targetpoint for Publishers

Adpoint is a service that enables you to maximize your website’s revenue by displaying ads that are content-specific to each page. Exitpoint Generate significant revenue of links to external sites. Every website has its exit traffic links, now you can generate money from them. Exitpoint provides content-specific ads in pages you link to, enabling you to display ads on web pages that are not under your editorial control. Pay per click.

ContextWeb

Earn more revenue When ads are more relevant, more users will be interested in them and will click on them more often - and you'll earn more. ContextAd uses a revenue ranking system that rewards the best performing ads with more volume. That means they'll be rotating a host of targeted ads across your website and optimizing ad placements based on relevance, performance, and price, so they produce as much revenue as possible. 43

BidClix Advertising Marketplace

Real-time bid-for-placement auction system, you can use BidClix to sell your advertising inventory to the highest bidder. Connect with thousands of advertisers competing against each other for your inventory. All standard ad units - skyscrapers, banners, pop-unders, etc. The deliver the highest yielding ads. Other ad networks use geographic or contextual criteria to target ads. They use some of these criteria too. They can be effective, but they aren't good enough. By focusing their efforts on finding which ads will earn you the highest yield, they earn you more.

TargetFirst

Target First utilizes a proprietary technology, called Value Rank, to real-time monitor the effectiveness of every ad spot in the network. These value rankings are used to ensure the top paying ads are always being placed in the best performing locations.

AllFeeds

Your Own Free Customized Search Engine Portal! Now up to 60% payouts! Free Content themed to Your Site such as news, weather, sports, and even Amazon.com. New "Popaway" DHTML ad delivery adds revenue to your text content and blogs. Contextual Advertising with High Bid Prices to Make Your More! Allfeeds.com offers thousands of advertisers at high bid prices. Contextual ads, Popaway ads, Text Links, Search Boxes, DHTML Popaways, and your own Free Web Site Portal. Affiliates can integrate Allfeeds into your Google Adsense program.

Nixxie

The UK's First Contextual Advertising Company.

MrWordsmith

AdTextual Content Based Ads. You may earn up to 60% of the advertising revenue Put their code on your site and they will push targeted adverts based on the content of your pages. Increased targeted user interest equals increased revenue for you. Requirements: You have a content based/information website.

AccessoryAds Affiliate program

They guarantee a higher commission than their competitors for selected online affiliate industries - 30% Revenue Share! Know in advance exactly how much you will be paid per click. AccessoryAds affiliates can choose the categories that pay the most and promote them in relation to their own content. Decide what type of category ads to display; never show your competitors. Display advertising that is helpful to your readers AccessoryAds are presented with a title that highlights the usefulness to the reader and is not presented as a sponsored advertisement. Generate additional revenues for your website.

Ad Clixx

Publishers are paid monthly when their balance is $50+. They will be paid instantly by paypal.

Adhearus

Place ads on your web site within minutes. Get paid for every click. 18 different ad sizes -- multiple ads on one page allowed! Ads are relevant to your sites content.

interCLICK
They are our number one priority for advertising networks. You can select the campaigns you want to run, by previewing the ads beforehand and see the CPMs of the respective campaigns. The standard sizes they support are: 300×250, 728×90, 468×60, 120×600/160×600. They consistently deliver eCPMs in the $1 range, which is great, especially if you’re used to seeing crappy ads and eCPMs of $.11.

Two Big Ones Coming Soon

Yahoo Publisher Network : Closed Beta (CPC)

Yahoo Publisher Network

Yahoo are currently playing catch up to Google and are trying to release their own context sensitive advertising service. This promises to be an excellent alternative to Google Adsense but in reality is likely to be a simple copy with the same restrictive terms and conditions as Google, including $100 minimums on payouts. The system seems to have been in beta test for several years now, perhaps explaining why Yahoo as a company is suffering. Unfortunately while you can visit their site and sign up to register for an account don't expect to actually hear back from them. They are either extremely selective or are simply not accepting new publishers and advertisers, either way they won't even bother to get back to you to let you know this and most applicants won't even receive a reply saying their application has been rejected. Thus until it goes live and it becomes clear what type of website owners Yahoo will be targeting I cannot place it any higher in this list.

Advert wise Yahoo Publisher Network will feature:

Display ads related to the content on your site. You'll earn revenue from qualified clicks.
Integrate other Yahoo! services into your web site, including Add to My Yahoo! (RSS), Y!Q and much more to come...
This beta program is just the beginning. Our mission is to deliver products and services based on the needs of the publishing community.

MSN adCenter : Closed Beta (CPC)

Kontera ContentLinks

ContentLinks are contextually relevant keywords discovered in real time on a publisher’s web page that are automatically turned into a link to the most relevant and highest paying text ad from one of Kontera’s thousands of advertisers. To qualify for ContentLink your website must: Generate more than 250,000 page impressions per month; Be content-rich with more than 50 words per page on the majority of the site; Use English as the primary language. Qualifications may change. Visit: Kontera ContentLinks
Bidvertiser

Make money with affiliate program that pays you for every click. You get paid for every visitor that clicks on an ad. Their goal is to enable you to make as much as possible from your advertising space, by letting advertisers bid on your ad space. They pay monthly, either by check, or instantly through PayPal with a minimum of only $10. Visit: Bidvertiser

Money4Banners

Money4Banners.com is a new approach to Web site advertising that uses a standard 468 x 60 pixel banner, which is much more visible and appealing to surfers. They’ll reward you with $5.00 every month, as long as you keep three of their 468×60 ads. Your site may be large or small, with a high or low traffic count, but you’ll continue to receive $5.00 for as long as you retain the ads. What could be simpler? Join now, and you’ll receive $10.00 after a successful signup! Visit: Money4Banners
BlogChex

BlogChex was built to help all bloggers produce an income from content created in blogs. They find advertisers interested in promoting their products or services to blog readers. You write in your blog, they find the advertisers, you get paid! $50 payout by check (moving to PayPal). Three easy steps to getting paid for blogging: Migrate your existing blog or start a new one; Refer a friend and get 5% of what the friends blog site makes; Promote your blog and get paid. It’s easy to join, just follow the three steps from signup. Visit: BlogChex

Monetize the traffic to your website by placing relevant ads. More than 12000 bloggers and publishers are already using Chitika’s ads to earn revenue. Payments are sent around the start of every month. You will receive your payments approximately 30 days after the end of the month in which your account’s total generated revenue exceeds $10 (for Paypal) or $50 (for checks).

Claxon Media

Claxon Media works with publishers and helps them earn revenues on inventories which may never or seldom be utilized. Most of top publishers networks work with Claxon Media and they have far benefited with their interaction than what they had expected in returns. Visit: Claxon Media.
Clicksor

Clicksor offers webmasters the opportunity to earn more income by simply underlining a selection of clickable text (inline text links) or displaying targeted contextual ads (various sizes of banners) on their Web sites or blogs. You are able to choose the type of advertisements to be shown on your Web site at a cost per click (CPC), cost per thousand impressions (CPM) and cost per visit (CPV) earnings metrics. You can earn up to 70% revenue share, depending on the performance the advertisers attain from your Web site placements. Payments are based on net 15 terms on a bi-weekly schedule. You may select to receive your payments by check or Paypal with a minimum payout of $50. Participating sites must have 5,000 page views per day or 150000 page views per month. Visit: Clicksor

CPX Interactive

An ad network that serves more than 24 billion global impressions to over 195 million unique users across more than 5,000 publisher websites every month. Visit: CPX Interactive.

Exoclick

Discover how you can generate more revenue with your sites and domains. They will monetize all your ad spaces, on all countries and all categories. Get started instantly. Weekly payments through Paypal. Visit: Exoclick

PeakClick

Webmasters install PeakClick’s code into their pages. Every time your page visitors load your pages, PeakClick’s links appear. Your site visitors click on the PeakClick links. Your PeakClick account is credited and your accumulated balance is paid out to you every 15 days. PeakClick pays you for all valid clicks generated by your traffic. Visit: PeakClick

FastClick :

FastClick is one of the best ad network for small to medium sized publishers. Their superior technology provides fast delivery and optimization for best ad performance on publishers websites. Their rates are also very comparable to other top networks. Among the drawbacks of FastClick are their banner quality and no targeting for speciality websites. However, the publisher has a lot of choices for ad types and has the ability to filter out ads easily. Their ad fill rates are as high as 90-94%. Their payments are very prompt and they pay 65% of the revenue

BURST Media :

BurstMedia is one of the oldest ad networks. Their network has a superior quality of advertisers. The publisher can choose from a suite of ad types and can filter out unwanted ads. The major drawbacks for this network is their low fill rates and lower run-of-network ad rates. They pay publishers 50% of the revenue generated (for non-exclusive contract). This ad network is good as secondary ad network because of their low fill rates unless the website can attract targeted advertisements

PopupTraffic

PopupTraffic is owned by Standard Internet, which also manages some other affiliate programs. PopupTraffic is the best in terms of revenue generation. It accepts almost all websites and publishers need only one account to deliver ads to various different websites. That helps in consolidating the revenue into one account. Their rates are $2.00/CPM for pop-unders and $3.00/CPM for pop-ups. Their payments are by check within 30 days with a minimum payout of $25...

1. Adbrite - http://www.adbrite.com
One of the best current Adsense competitors. Adbrite gives you a good amount of flexibility with creative sizes. Just place a small snippet of HTML on your site, and they handle serving, scheduling, and the rest.

2. Clicksor - http://www.clicksor.com
"Clicksor offers webmasters the opportunity to earn more income by simply underlining a selection of clickable text (inline text links) or displaying targeted contextual ads (various sizes of banners) on their websites or blogs."

Very easy to join and set up. Plus Clicksor has an industry leadeing 85% share rate on ad revenue.

3. Chitika - http://www.chitika.com
Chitika allows you to display targeted products based on what people searched for to get to your page and you get paid for clicks. It is a perfect compliment to Adsense or Adbrite ads.

4. Bidvertiser - http://www.bidvertiser.com
Simply display the BidVertiser text ads on your website and let advertisers bid against each other. You get paid a percentage of every click, and the ads are contextual to match the theme of your site.

5. Yahoo Publisher Network - http://publisher.yahoo.com/
This is Yahoo's version of Adsense.

6. AdToll - http://www.adtoll.com
Adtoll allows you to sell advertising space on your blog. If you have a very high traffic blog, this may be an option for you.

7. Exit Junction - http://www.exitjunction.com
Exit Junction serves contextual exit pops to your visitors. Use this one with caution or you may alienate your regular readers.

8. eClickZ - http://www.eclickz.com/
Another Adsense type network featuring contextual matching ads and an XML search feed product.

9. Infolinks - http://www.infolinks.com/home.html
Info Links specializes in in-text advertising that places automatic contextual links within your actual blog pages.

10. Kontera - http://www.kontera.com/
Very similar to InfoLinks within some neat plug-ins for CMS based blogs (Drupal, Wordpress, etc).

11. Microsoft pubCenter - https://beta.pubcenter.microsoft.com/
Still in Beta testing, this is Microsoft's new Adsense competitor product.

12. Widgetbucks - http://www.widgetbucks.com/home.page
Place their widgets on your blog and earn from click-throughs.