Many people love Google Adsense because it brings instantly brings relvant
advertisers to a website on a CPC. However, sometimes people
have problems with getting accepted to Google Adsense and other times, webmasters
have a hard time not getting dropped from Google Adsense once accepted. So,
it is important to look at other content targeting options that are out there
Yahoo has a content targeted option. This is another very solid way to
get relevant advertisers on a CPC. However, it is very hard to get
accepted into the Yahoo program
Quigo offers adsonor for publishers
however through this program, the goal is for you to have quigo help you
sign up your own advertisers. While its great to have a direct relationship
with the advertisers, you would need a lot of traffic or to be in a very targeted
niche for this to have potential.
Clicksor has a content targeting program which allows you to
have content targeted ads via traditional methods (banner ads, tower ads) as well as
via in line text ads. However, be careful of the drawbacks of inline
text ads as written about here
Chitika offers publishers the chance to earn additional content
targeting revenue. On their website they promote the fact that they are
compatible with Google Adsense. As always, you can test it out to see
how it performs and then decide if you want to continue using it
You can always sign up for the Amazon.com affiliate program and
they will allow you to place text links on your site. So, if you don't
have many pages of content, you can manually target each of your pages
by yourself, in effect making your own content targeting ads. Obviosuly,
it will be a lot of work coding each ads unit, however if you have
targeted content amazon may have products for sale that are directly
relevant so you can try this out. Also, of course, this would be
pay for performance as opposed to pay per click. You can
also try this out with Ebay partner network
also as Ebay has tons
of product vertic