Adsense Alternative

Not sure I trust Adsense

[webmaster99]

Hi

I'm one of those paranoid webmasters who has a feeling they lost a lot of natural traffic after first using Adsense. I'm sure many would tell me that this definitely doesn't happen, but nevertheless I have a slight distrust of using Adsense again.

We now have a new site which is going to be very dependant on gaining good positioning in the natural listings, but will also be very dependent on advertising and adsense type adverts.

Has anyone experience of adsense alternatives? Yahoo's offering for instance? Or I have a vague feeling Valueclick now offer a similar service which conglomerates results from Yahoo, Overture etc.... Anyone any experience of this?

Apologies if this ground has been covered before, or if this is the wrong board...

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

I know where you are coming from. I am a consultant in a high cost area where one good conversion will give me more than a month's Adsense revenue. I have been running Adsense for 15 months now and my website traffic has increased but my business enquiries have remained static or perhaps gone down slightly. I am thinking of dropping Adsense especially since the income from this has been reduced by more than half for more clicks.

The thing is that when Adsense is working it's a great scheme and quite easy money. I also feel that my particular site has such a prominent place on the net that it should be bringing in advertising revenue. I just wish I could find the alternative to Adsense.

(Written after watching Adsense earnings creep up to $1150 per month then quickly collapse back down to $500.)

[Dayo_UK]

If you are in the UK - might be worth trying Mirago.

I have only run it on a couple of v.small sites so dont really know the amount of earnings to expect. (obv not likely to be up there with Adsense for most people - might be worth a look for some though)

or if you have time to choose keywords/products (or can script product choice somehow) for each page and dont mind CPA then perhaps Aff Futures Deepfeed.

Eg - say you have a page on Hong Kong ;) - stick that as the keyword in the deepfeed section and at the moment it would return - a few DVDs set in Hong Kong, and a couple of pocket guides - and of course this can be run with Mirago (and Adsense? - I would have thought)

Although you can be more creative than that of course.

[edited by: Dayo_UK at 11:12 am (utc) on Nov. 30, 2005]

[trillianjedi]

website traffic has increased but my business enquiries have remained static or perhaps gone down slightly

I wonder whether some specific page targetting for the ads, and cookie setting might help here? Perhaps only displaying Ads once, on the first entry page and nowhere else. So you catch the "single-page view" user that realises he's landed in the wrong place and serve him an ad on the basis that if he found you, he must be searching something related.

For users who dig around a little deeper, and are more likely to convert on your site, the ads vanish and are no longer an option.

You may have tried this already of course, but I feel it's worth bringing up again as it's a powerful device and one I use all the time.

TJ