ContentAds Pro

Google adSense is tremendously popular and millions of websites use it, but there are some interesting alternatives that might be more suitable for your website or will pay out more.  So if you have been banned from adSense, want to see if you can earn more or if you need a different kind of ad displaying system (your readers are becoming adSense blind!!) then you could try the following services.

adBright

adBright is probably the biggest after Google adSense and offers much of the same functionality. They offer less variation in ad formats but make up for this with some great tools for setting up in-text ads, similar to Vibrant and MIVA. Also, interstitial full page ads offer an excellent way to earn from all traffic to your site, not just ad clicks. You can set minimum CPC values for your ads and exclude certain advertisers. Payouts are typically 75% and terms and conditions are more relaxed and focused towards smaller publishers and bloggers. It can also be used in conjunction with Google AdSense. This allows you to maximize your CTR and at the same time offer advertisers the possibility to show their links in your AdSense space.

ClickSor

Another good content sensitive ad publishing network is Clicksor. Although their payout scheme seems focused towards small site owners (minimum for Paypal $20,-) theye only allow sites of 5000 page views per day or more.  This number is usually easily reached after some time, but may hold off websites just starting up. You can only place one add per page as it states in their user agreement, but as long as you ony place one popup or DHTML add they seem to be ok with multiple ads on one page.

Chitika

Chitika offers a publishers to display PPC (Pay-Per-Click) ads. The best things about this system are:

• Only displays to traffic from search engines and argets the search keyword. Regular blog readers or people that axcess your page directly are not shown the add.
• Displays along side Google adSense and thus supplies additional revenue.
• Fully customizable colours and style.
• Offers referral income of 10% of any income a publisher referred by you is making.

TargetPoint

Target point offers 4 distinct advertising systems for publishers:

• Adpoint automatically targets ads using real-time user searches, behavior in the site, page content and more. In addition to these proprietary technologies, Adpoint also utilizes another Targetpoint technology, which checks in real-time for the highest CPC bid for the targeted content, Thus enabling both higher click through and higher CPC!.
• Exitpoint is a textual ad service that serves targeted ads to your exit traffic via designated links. It will provide you with income from every page you link to.
• Imagepoint enables you to display targeted visual banners that automatically change their creative to match the interests of the user.
• Underpoint is a user friendly version of classical pop-under ads. They claim it will not annoy the user.

ContextWeb ADSDAQ

ContextAd offers contextual ads for dynamic pages, thus ads will change as soon as your page does, similar to adSense. They will run each submitted domain through our auto-approval process and afterwords you can run our ads on any page of a domain that gets approved. Minimum payouts are at $50,- and ads are more content rich generally. Furthermore, publishers can specify an AskPrice per click and 100% of that price will be paid to the publisher

Bidvertiser

Bidvertiser is very much like Google adSense, allowing you to customize the layout, block certain ads and follow performance. Several of it’s strong points are:

• If you are already a publisher you automatically become an affiliate, which means that you will also be paid for every user you refer.
• Payment can be instant through PayPal as soon as you earnings are more than $10,-.
• There are special accounts for websites with over 5 Million pageviews per month.

Vibrant Media

Vibrant Media offers user-initiated ads. The way it works is via highlighted phrases or keywords within your websites content. Once a user hovers over such a phrase an add is displayed. This can be video ads, interactive ads, textual ads, etc.  The system places you in full control, and is easily implemented by adding some simple JavaScript to your pages. Vibrant Media then selects several phrases or keywords to place their ads under and you’re ready to start earning money. This system works best for websites with a lot of written content.

Yahoo APT

Yahoo is currently trying to match Googles succes wih adSense  and has released it’s own content sensitive advertising service. There are a lot of similarities, including $100,- minimums earning for  payouts. If you can get your hands on a account, because they are still in Beta and many people have complaint about not getting accepted, it should be worth a try. Yahoo promises to include the following features:

• Advanced ad targeting and display capabilities can improve the relevance of your results.
• Ability to filter competitive listings from appearing on your site—to protect your business.
• Access to a wide range of tools, services and programs that enable you—and your users—to get the most value from your site.
• Four ways to collect your revenue, including a PayPal option that lets you get paid more quickly.

Microsoft ContentAds

MS, like Yahoo is trying to get a piece of the online advertising cake and is trying to match Googles adSense system. So far their service is only open to Beta testers and not a lot of info is known about this program. MS, does have a large advertisers network, so this should be a good one for publishers as well.

MIVA

Miva, like vibrant also offers intext ads that popup on user interaction. It’s main focus is towards addbloks and text-ad-banners, quite similar to Google adSense. It offers much of the same control like, ad blocking, customization and earning reports. Nice extra’s are  it’s  Search Box functionality, the  Category Directory and the handling of 404 error pages. It can be implemented into your page using a simple on-line wizard.

ValueClick Media

Another ad publishing network.. Offers nothing special in particular and seems to be focused towards the larger publishers out there.

So there you have it, there are many good alternatives for Google adSense out there that are worth a try.

Please let us know what your experience with any of these services is below!