Google Adsense Alternative?
Let's face it, Google has monopoly in the ad space business. Many times, they terminate the account without any clarification and cease the earned amount too. So, is there any good adsense alternative available out there?
I too lost my Google Adsense account exactly when I had reached the minimum quantitiy to be able to get a paycheck, they banned me and kept my 100 €, which took me months of doing SEO, writting content, and much more.
So what I have been trying lately, is contacting directly clients that might be interested in placing an ad on my website, maybe we need some sort of a new social network for people to sell ad spots on their websites.
I'm curious to know what kind of solo websites make money from Adsense. Of course giant publications like NYTimes and Buzzfeed do, but they are publications, so are constantly putting out new articles and have tons of staff to do that work.
To be honest, every non-media site I've seen Adsense ads on have been fairly low-quality aggregator blogs that cover a wide variety of unrelated topics, have no clear identity/differentiator and appear to exist solely to generate AdSense revenue. These are the types of site you come across once, and never go back to again.
I'm in the nonprofit space and have been thinking about building a site focused on fundraising strategy. Adsense is likely not the right match for this, but I'm curious to know how people have monetized it with single-subject websites.
For programming related websites, CodeFund[1] is an option. I tried both Carbon and CodeFund for one of my websites[2], and CodeFund paid out significantly more.
CodeFund is also open source and seems committed to desirable principles, like not doing any user tracking through cookies.
In a feedback survey, I said that I hope they can one day expand beyond programming websites and become a general alternative to AdSense.
[1]: https://codefund.io/
[2]: https://www.makeareadme.com/
Carbon Ads (https://www.carbonads.net/) are decent if you've got a developer or tech audience. I've seen them used on CodePen and Smashing Machine I think.
Big positives for me are:
- You can securely include them on your page without having to run third party JavaScript or inject third party HTML. They have an API that just provides a JSON feed of the ads to show (each ad is a heading + description + logo + tracking pixel, no HTML) so you can write your own (non-bloated) JavaScript for displaying them. This approach is good for Chrome extensions too as there you're not allowed to include external JavaScript files.
- This also means you can customise how the ads are displayed so they don't look out of place or bloat your pages. I was surprised they let you do this. My contact there pretty much told me I can make them look however I want (e.g. size, colours, fonts).
I'm using Carbon Ads on this page for example (see just above the first subheading, make sure you have adblock disabled):
https://www.checkbot.io/guide/
Google rejected my very organized site(https://www.nmmapper.com) for now good reason at all. And yes I got an alternative which has good payout.
Now I use revenuehits.com
If you know what your readers would buy, you can sign up for affiliate programs that they might be interested in and basically serve rotating ads yourself. It's definitely a lot more work, and becomes more worth it the bigger and more targeted your audience is.
Consider AdThrive, MediaVine, Media.net, and Monumetric
You can join the waitlist for Brave ads at https://brave.com/brave-ads-waitlist
Brave Browser is made By Brendan Eich who created the javascript programming language and the cofounder of Mozilla Foundation.
Look into affiliate marketing. If your niche has any businesses in it, chances are you could potentially get as much if not more on a revshare model. Slightly more upfront setup with partnerships, but a learning opportunity nonetheless.
That are not porn ads? No, I haven't found any.
But you're 100% right, google is a dangerous predator monopoly.
FYI you’re looking for a “supply side platform” or ssp. Adsense will have the best payouts most likely, unless you find an ssp specific to your niche or are willing to put in some effort.
The suggestions in this post are old but it gives a good intro on the subject.
https://medium.com/adngin-s-all-things-content-blog/too-smal...
There's WordAds for WordPress-based sites.
https://wordads.co/
I used it years ago and it worked okay. I don't know what it's like now.
Carbon ads, if your site meets their quality requirements.
There are other services that look similar but pay 10% as much, if that, and look sleazier...
Carbon ads? Tech space only from what I understand.
facebook, yandex, instagram, snapchat, bing, aol, yahoo. not centralised, but there are still some traffic.