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Adsense Alternatives: Part 3 of 4

Welcome to part 3 of my 4 part series on Adsense Alternatives.
Adsense Alternatives Part 1 and Adsense Alternatives Part 2 covered various types of monetizing programs readily available to publishers, varying in types of adverts, varying in site acceptance guidelines and varying in the type of program being offered.

Part 3 of this series will be no different other than, a brand new set of programs will be discussed and presented to you the reader.

So without further word, lets jump straight into the programs that make up part 3 of Adsense Alternatives.

ShareASale
ShareASale gives publishers access to a wide range of advertising merchants, each of which has a specific affiliate program in place. There are more than 2000 such merchants inside this program.

ShareASale affiliate programs come in three styles: pay per sale, pay per lead, and pay per click. The first two are CPA (cost per action), whereas the last is CPC (cost per click). The majority of merchants utilize the pay per sale style.

ShareaSale collect all payments from the merchants and then pays the publishers. The criteria to meet payout is a $50 threshold. If a publisher’s balance is less than this, then their balance carries over to the next month. Payment is sent out on or around the 20th day of the month for commissions from the previous month. Publishers can choose to be paid via direct deposit, check via FedEx ($20 surcharge), or check via US Postal Mail. There is no option for PayPal at this time.

There is a referral system in place. For every new merchant who signs up through a publisher’s affiliate link, the publisher earns a commission of $150. For every qualified publisher who signs up through a provided link, the referring publisher earns a commission of $1.


Adbrite

Adbrite offers its publishers a lot of control over their websites advertisement space by allowing them to sell ads through their own site and to approve and reject offers. As well Adbrite offers an alternative to doing this, If a publisher chooses, they can also set a reserve price (based on eCPM) for their AdBrite advert placements. If the advert served by AdBrite meets this reserve, it will be displayed. If it does not, the alternative code (provided by the publisher) will be displayed. This could be from Adsense, YPN(Yahoo Publisher Network), or any other ad network.

AdBrite offers text ads, which are sold on a CPC basis. These ads can be customized to fit the theme of the site in which they are being embedded.

Banner ads are also available on a CPM basis and typically have a higher payout than text ads.

AdBrite also offers a couple of other kinds of advertisement. Interstitial ads are shown in between pages of your site. Publishers can customize the header to match the look and feel of their site, and they can choose to display the ad after 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 page views. Publishers can use HTML coding to mark the portions of their site on which they would like to allow inline ads, but they cannot choose which words specifically become links. No more than 8 keywords will become inline ads and these pay on a CPC basis.

BritePic and InVideo are the final options available for advertising that AdBrite offers. These services present ways to make videos and pictures on a site interactive. In addition to embedding advertisements in the pictures and videos, publishers can use these features to add links, captions, and other extras to the media. For example, site visitors are able to embed the pictures (BritePic) and videos (InVideo) on their own sites, but the integrated ads are still those of the original publisher giving the publishers adverts a wider audience.

Adbrite offers a referral system. Anyone referred by a publisher will earn the publisher 50% of AdBrite’s profit’s from this new user for the first three months, and 10% of Adbrite's profits for nine months after that.

Payments are made at the end of each month for the 30 day period 2 months prior. AdBrite gives its publishers 70% of the revenues generated from their ad spaces and keeps 30%. Payments are made to publishers by checks, and the minimum threshold payment amount is $5, although by default $100 minimum threshold is put in place.

Review Me
ReviewMe pays blog publishers to write reviews of different products or services. Blog owners are paid based on their ranking system, which is based on Alexa, Technorati, and RSS subscribers and recalculated monthly.

Publishers must disclose that the post is a paid post in some way, Either designate it by "Sponsored Post", "Advertisement", or "Paid Review", it does not matter so long as it is clearly made known the post or article is paid for. Reviews must also be at least 200 words in length.

Publishers are paid 50% of revenue and ReviewMe allows publishers to price their own review, up to $600.

Some blogs charge as much as $2,500 per review, but the vast majority fall within the $60-$150 price range.

Price is automatically recalculated monthly, based on factors including theme, estimated traffic, estimated RSS subscribers, and link popularity. Or publishers can choose to set their own price.

Publishers are paid the first of every month via PayPal or check.

The referral system pays out $25 per advertiser referred to ReviewMe who purchases a review that makes it to completion.


Chitika

Provide publishers with ads that are highly targeted and are particularly effective for niche blogs that talk about the latest gadgets, the hottest games, or the coolest products on the market.

Chitika is similar to other shopping programs.

Signing up is straight forward and simple. Chitika does state that Chitika ads work best on sites that have at least 10,000 monthly page views. Although this is not a set in stone pre requisite and anyone can apply. Applications take about 2 days to be processed.

The referral program pays for the new referred member for 15 months. As publishers refer new publishers to the Chitika advertising network, they earn 10% of what the referrals earn.Again, only for 15 months though.

Chitika pays at the end of the month, based on the month prior. Payments are made by either paypal or check and the threshold varies depending on which you chose. paypal has a lower minimum payment set at $10 vs the $50 set for those receiving payment by check.

LinkShare

Offers publishers various affiliate programs.

When a publisher first applies, they are only able to use the referral program until their application is processed and approved.

The payout levels vary from program to program, possibly paying a flat fee for each referral or, alternatively, for a percentage of the total sale.

The Referral system commission paid, is $1.50 for every valid referral that registers as a publisher with LinkShare and generates at least one click-through within the first 30 days of registration.

LinkShare’s payment method is a check sent via standard mail. As well, publishers can opt for direct deposit to their bank accounts, but this option is only available to users in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and the United States. LinkShare issues payments four times a month, but the payment withholding period varies across the different affiliate programs. Most are net-30 or faster.

Clickbooth

Is an advertising network that specializes in affiliate marketing.

Signing up is easy and the first page involves the standard things like name, address, email, fax etc. On the second page, applicants provide a phone number which then must be immediately verified. An automated phone call will be made to the number given and a pre-recorded voice will read off a short confirmation code. This code is then entered into the web interface.
The third and final page is where applicants provide specific information about the site where the Clickbooth ads will be displayed. According to Clickbooth, most applicants should receive a response within 72 hours. In practice, formal acceptance into the program was granted within a day. The confirmation email provides the username, password, and the affiliate tracking ID.

Most publishers payments are sent 15 days after the end of the month where they reach the minimum payment threshold of $50. For high volume publishers (those who earn a minimum of $1500 a week ) they can request a faster 7 day payment schedule.

There is a referral program in place. For every referral, publishers earn a 2% gross referral credit for life. As well a $10 bonus is also paid for every new referral into the Clickbooth program.

Kontera

Offers in-text content adverts or links, all that appears are two double lines for a keyword on your page. Making this a useful program to run alongside with your Adsense or another program if you wish.

Requirements for joining are simple and sign up is simple too. A minimum of 250,000 page impressions per month. Although my site had much less when I signed up and was accepted. English must be the primary language on the site. Each page you show Kontera in text links on should have a minimum of fifty words in order for it to work properly.

Payments are at the end of the month, with a $100 minimum threshold for payout and payments are made by check.

There is unfortunately no referral program for Kontera either.

Revenue Pilot

The Revenue Pilot advertising network is mostly based on the PPC/CPC model, meaning that publishers are paid each time a site visitor clicks on an advertisement.

XML Feed, Popouts, Interstitials, banners, error pages are popular types of adverts used

Signing up again is pretty simple and fast and approval of an application can come within th same day.

There is a referral program. Publishers are paid 10% of all earnings from accounts that are referred by that publisher and are subsequently accepted into Revenue Pilot. This is a lifetime reward paid to the Publisher.

Revenue Pilot pays its publishers 60% of the bid price. Payments are sent via check or paypal. Wire transfers can be done but there is a processing fee. Pyments are sent out between 30 and 60 days after the threshold for payout is reached at the end of a month. Minimum payout threshold level is $25.

RevenuePilot also offers a search like tool similar to that of Adsense link units. For an example click on the next link title "Adsense Alternatives". Adsense Alternatives

Searchfeed

Works on the pay per click (PPC) advertising model. Google Adsense and the Yahoo Publishers Network work on this model as well but Searchfeed is different. It takes on a search engine feel to serve up adverts. Similar to link units from Google Adsense.

There is a referral program. Publishers will receive a commission of between 2% and 5% of the net revenue generated by new publishers referred to the program.In the case of referring advertisers, they will earn a commission of 5%-7% of the initial deposit from a referred advertiser.

Payments are based on Net 30 days. They go out around the 20th of each month. Payments can come via check or paypal and the minimum threshold for payment sits at $25.

If you have a larger account and do well then you can arrange to have wire transfers as well.



This concludes the 3rd part of my Adsense Alternatives series of posts. Again comments are welcomed, so do feel free to discuss your thoughts about any of these programs. As well if you enjoyed this article then please subscribe to my feed and get some of my other posts as they become available. I thank you for your time and for stopping by.

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