Adsense vs CJ vs YPN

Your opinion of each program

[J_Evans]

I started a brand new site, and I am new at this. After awhile I added Adsense. Currently I am at a 6.2 ctr and a 15.00ecpm. While I feel both of these are pretty good for a new site (Six months with no expierence)but of course I want more. I need more traffic. I applied to YPN but they declined me. I then added CJ about a month ago and am very dissipointed with it. Over 2,000 ad impressions with one click and no sales. I am now thinking of keeping CJ for about one more month then if it does not improve I'll try ot sell direct advertising. My traffic is growing at about 15-20% per month. What is your expierences and what do you think is reasonable to improve my situation? Thank you for your help and I enjoy all of your posts.

Jamie

[btas2]

CJ isn't bad if you chose the right links and you have the right audience, but almost all the programs pay based on actual sales, not on clicks, so if you don't have ads for what people want to buy, you won't make any money.

YPN is still in beta and hard to get into. They just invited me in and the ad targeting so far seems poor for my site (despite it being in one of their "target" categories), so the clickthrough rate is low. Each click pays better than AdSense, but since you get fewer clicks due to poor targeting and (maybe) lower ad inventory, you end up making less money.

That's my experience at least.

You really need a quality site to make money from AdSense. The days of throwing any old site up, sticking a few ads on it and raking in the cash are gone (if they ever existed). If you don't have a quality site, you need to be skillful and devious to attract users and get them to click through without getting booted out of the program. I'm hoping that AdSense is slowly weeding out the MFA sites.

[gamiziuk]

You can try adding Chitika ads to your site. Chitika is a "per click" program, like Adsense. The ads look very different from Adsense though, so you can run them on the same pages. You choose keywords with Chitika, to display products.

For example, I mainly run travel/hotel reservation sites, so I choose Chitika ads with keywords for travel products (cameras, camcorders, etc). You will have to figure out what sort of products to target for your web site if you want to use Chitika ads.

I wont get rich from Chitika, but they have paid me a few times already.