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Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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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...

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does these services pay similar to Google Adsense?

I'm only familiar with AdThrive and MediaVine, and certainly it depends on the niche, but most folks make significantly more. I know someone who jumped 5x when they switched. Just a heads up though, the requirements are higher: AdThrive requires 100,000 monthly views and MediaVine requires 25,000 sessions.

Adthrive and Mediavine promise more revenue per page, and do achieve it, but mainly by putting more ads on the page, and then refreshing them after a set period of time. A typical Mediavine page might have 5+ ads on it.

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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post #8

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.

Tried affiliate marketing with no luck in the past. Don't know if it's easy now a days to sell products easily?

I've found products are hard, but services can be easier especially ones with free trials/free tiers. But like, I had one going pretty well and then it dried up. For me personally, I find it harder to want to do affiliate programs because it seems more like a personal endorsement of the product/service than Adsense.

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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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/

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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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…

Selling ad spots on your website yourself has many drawbacks:

* It's time consuming for the seller and buyer.

* You need to give the buyer reliable statistics. Page-Views, Click-Trough rate, demographics and what not, before and after you sell the ad spot.

* You need to define the price, which is not that simple.

* You need to provide the technical means to manage and display the ads.

* You need to prevent abuse.

* You need a contract for each buyer.

* The buyer needs to trust you.

* You need to trust the buyer.

I think that ship has long sailed. It would be tremendously cool, if there was some kind of self-hostable ad software, which takes care of the technical details and would act as middle man, connecting buyers and sellers. Some kind of open marketplace based on open software. But I doubt, this will ever happen. Would be a cool thing to disrupt the current industry though.

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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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…

Selling ad spots on your website yourself has many drawbacks: * It's time consuming for the seller and buyer. * You need to give the buyer reliable statistics. Page-Views, Click-Trough rate, demographics and what not, before and after you sell the ad spot. * You need to define the price, which is not that simple. * You need to provide the technical means to manage and display the ads. * You need to prevent abuse. * Y…

What things does this software need to care of like logging clicks, ip address, geolocation, ctr etc?
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