5 Adsense Alternatives For Bloggers To Earn Income.

The first rule for any investor is to diversify their portfolio.  Even if you are just starting out, the websites you build are your portfolio.   So what happens when you’ve put all your eggs in one basket with one monetization program?  It leaves you vulnerable and in a position where you can’t mitigate your risk.

Adsense is one of the best platforms you can use to monetize your website, but there are plenty of Adsense alterntives you should consider when building out a website or buying an existing site.

If you’ve invested heavily into content, should consider the wide variety of different monetization models that you can derive income from.

Before You Start Earning Income You Must Know What Are Benefits of Adsense Alternatives

Pros

Commission payouts are solid
Relatively easy to get approved
Flexible interlinking formats



Cons

Takes longer to implement your links on your page than just embedding code
Need multiple Associate accounts if traffic is split between countries
There are many affiliate marketers out there who use the Amazon Associates program as their sole source of monetizing their site.  It’s a great way to capitalize on low competition keywords that often times have a buyer intent.  With Amazon Associates, you have the ability to use a number of different ad formats.

You can use their CPM ads which pay out per impression or you can use Amazon affiliate links and get paid anytime someone makes a purchase on Amazon.com within 24 hours after clicking a link on your website. This is the method that most Associates start with because Amazon’s commission payout policy is still very good, even after the February 2017 adjustments to the commission table.

Commission payouts range by category and can payout anywhere from 1% to 10% of the purchase price.  They have also recently been emphasizing their Native Shopping ads which will display relevant products on the pages they are placed on.  If no product are picked up in the feed, they will default the ads to whatever you specify as the fallback.

A good chunk of the Niche Pursuits Audience uses the Amazon Associates program to monetize their websites and it’s a great monetization platform for beginners.  When paired with Adsense, you will have two of the most easily implemented and effective monetization methods used by Affiliate marketers and publishers on the internet today.

Not all networks work well with every niche and not all networks pay out the same amount of income over time.  It’s important to test which ones work best.

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Media.net

Media.net is the advertiser platform for BingAds, which is like Google Adsense but published by Bing (which is Microsoft).  Media.net has some things we like and some things we don’t’ like when comparing ad networks.

Pros

Media.net does Ad Optimization for you
The display ads are highly customizable and look great
You get a dedicated media.net account rep
Payouts are very good in certain niches

Cons

It’s difficult to get approved (no set criteria)
They are more restrictive with the types of content they approve for their ads
Looking at each of these in more detail, there are a few things that differ Media.net from Adsense.


The first is that you get your own account manager once you are brought on to the platform, and that manager will help optimize your ads for you.  You can reach out to them via email anytime you need to speak with them, and I’ve found they are usually quick to respond.  The ad displays are also more attractive than most default Adsense ad blocks and they give you higher levels of customization.

While Media.net’s Ads don’t have the same selection of layouts that Adsense does, they still offer a wide variety of size formats that will fit properly on just about any blog or website.  The payouts on Media.net are also extremely good in certain niches.  Take a look at a few of the articles below and you’ll find a few people that have had some great success with Media.net ads.

These are just a few marketers out there that have actually published their success stories about their earnings with Media.net.  There’s plenty of marketers out there using this ad platform having great success and just not talking about it.  If you are in a niche that will fall within Media.net’s advertising policies, it’s worth looking as a replacement for Adsense even if you are currently using Adsense today.

If you are in a niche that has products in the Amazon Associates program, Media.net can make an excellent compliment to that revenue source as Media.net ads seem to do the best when in a niche that has lots of buyer intent keywords.

Overall, Media.net is one of the better ad platforms out there today and should be given careful consideration as a potential replacement for Adsense, even if you have an active and approved Adsense account.




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Propeller Ads 

Propeller Ads are different from Monumetric, Media.net and Adsense.  They are not an ad network that you probably want to consider using as your only monetization method (you shouldn’t be doing this with Adsense or Amazon anyways) and it’s best used if layered with another type of advertising network.  They primarily use Pop Ups or Pop Under ads and allow you to maximize your revenue with their ads and they also operate on a CPM basis, which again means they pay out on cost per impression.

Whether or not you want to use a pop up or pop under ad is something that every individual webmaster is going to have to make.  There have been rumors in the past that google may penalize websites that use intrusive pop up ads on mobile sites, but the results are somewhat inconclusive.  What is conclusive though is that you can make good money using them.

What I like:

The CPMs are decent
They give you another way to monetize besides straight display ads
They are easy to implement
What I don’t like:

The fact the ads are pop -ups and pop-under ads
While it’s not been fully proven yet, there’s a chance that mobile pop up ads could impact SEO
So should you use propeller ads?  It really depends on how you want to maximize your revenue and if you don’t mind having multiple ad networks on your website.  Sometimes when you start to layer more than a few ad networks together, your site can start looking a little spammy.

Can it be used in lieu of Adsense if you have decent traffic?  Absolutely!  Experience and revenue will definitely depend on your niche, but there’s a few studies that have been done where people have had great success implementing properller ads on their site and sometimes in conjunction with Adsense.

Stream SEO has a great case study showcasing the extra 300/day they made with propeller ads
Erik at nopassiveincome.com also has a great article on how to make money with propeller ads
Again, you’ll want to be careful about how you implement these ads on your site and make sure that they resonate with your audience.  There’s no doubt they are an acceptable alternative and can yield a solid additional revenue source.  While we wouldn’t recommend relying on it as your only income source, it’s an acceptable replacement for Adsense if you decide you are done using Google’s platform.

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Chitika

Chitika is a network I considered using in the past as well.  Their ad formats are friendly and the ads are relatively easy to install.  It’s also pretty easy to get approved for their network but that also comes with some drawbacks.  While you do get access to advertising partners like Yahoo! And HomeAdvisor, the CPC rates can be low depending on your niche.

The nice thing about Chitika is that like InfoLinks and many of the other ad platforms we’ve looked at, you can combine it with others for a nice supplementary income.  You’ll just need to be careful that you aren’t too aggressively monetizing your content.  If your ad layout is aggressive, it could be a target for a Google Algorithm update, like when the “Fred” update hit in March of 2017.

Pros

Access to Premium Advertisers
Setup is easy
Ad layouts are plentiful


Cons

Low CPC’s
If Chitika paid out a higher CPC it might be right there with Adsense and Media.net with regards to being a top choice amongst publishers.  Right now Media.net, Adsense and Amazon are much more attractive and/or lucrative options.

With that being said, the CPC’s can be better in some niches than others, so it’s worth testing as a stand alone network to see if it fits for your niche.

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Sell You Ad blocks 

Ok, so this may take a bit more elbow grease, but you can make quite a bit of money selling your own advertising space and/or email blasts!

I recently had a publisher reach out to me selling ad space on their website.  They advertised a 300×250 ad block on their website for 30 days at $1,500 per month.  While this is expensive, it was their first offer and may be eligible to be talked down.  This is intriguing for me as an FBA seller.  It is also intriguing to me as a niche site owner!

Pros

You control your ad space rates
You control your ad space content
Higher income potential


Cons

You have to hit the pavement and sell your ad space
It’s time consuming
Selling your own advertising space can be extremely lucrative.  If you have a website that gets quite a bit of validated traffic, people will pay you for space on your site for their business.  As a publisher if you can go out and find these people, you can essentially make a full time income from just one really good relationship if they are related to your content.

If you have an email list you can also sell ad space in your daily emails!  Or you can even send an email blast with solid advertising creative.  Many influential sites will sell an “email blast” and give you an “expected number of clicks” from the resulting email blast.  If you are a publisher and have an established site and collect email addresses, this is something that you can definitely take advantage of.



Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing is an excellent way to make a full time income and can be highly lucrative.  It’s a great replacement for Adsense but the key is making sure that you are in the correct niche to fully take advantage of the income potential.  As an Affiliate, some affiliate marketing opportunities are much more lucrative than others.

Clickbank and CommissionJunction are two of the most popular affiliate marketing platforms on the market.  There are many different affiliate platforms out there though, and doing a simple Google search should yiled you plenty to look at.  The true value comes from forming relationships with other bloggers and other webmasters though.  You can often times cut affiliate marketing deals with anywhere from 50% to 60% of the income from the sales becomes yours after the fact.

Pros
Income Potential
Create offers relevant to your audience
You have control over the programs you offer

Cons

Some affiliate offers don’t covert very well
Lots of research for your niche to see what works
The good news with affiliate marketing is that the payouts can be extremely lucrative.  With a 50/50 or 60/40 split, this can bring in substantial revenue depending on the product.  There are internet marketers out there that bring in a substantial monthly income from recurring affiliate sales alone.

Some affiliate products will not only give you an income opportunity up front, but they will give you an income opportunity to earn recurring income once a customer has signed up for their service.  There are multiple networks that you can test and this should be an avenue you look to utilize as a replacement for Adsense right away depending on your niche.  Niches like Fitness, Self Improvement and Coaching are all examples of evergreen niches that sell affiliate products very well.

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Viglink
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