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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 AdSen…

Do codefund pay well?

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…

Would that be similar to buysellads?

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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Consider AdThrive, MediaVine, Media.net, and Monumetric

Keep away from Monumetric. In first message to me they required admin access to my site, after that I wanted to delete my account, till this day they don't respond to this request. But are sending me additional reminders to link my account with Google Analytics. :)

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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I'm curious to know what kind of solo websites make money from Adsense. Of course giant publications like NYTimes and Buzzfeed do, but they are publications, so are constantly putting out new articles and have tons of staff to do that work.

To be honest, every non-media site I've seen Adsense ads on have been fairly low-quality aggregator blogs that cover a wide variety of unrelated topics, have no clear identity/differentiator and appear to exist solely to generate AdSense revenue. These are the types of site you come across once, and never go back to again.

I'm in the nonprofit space and have been thinking about building a site focused on fundraising strategy. Adsense is likely not the right match for this, but I'm curious to know how people have monetized it with single-subject websites.

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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Consider AdThrive, MediaVine, Media.net, and Monumetric

Keep away from Monumetric. In first message to me they required admin access to my site, after that I wanted to delete my account, till this day they don't respond to this request. But are sending me additional reminders to link my account with Google Analytics. :)

Good to know

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…

I ran ads for over a year and was suddenly banned on YouTube with less than a dollar accumulated in my account.

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…

Or you do it like Pieter Levels with RemoteOK/Nomadlist and simply say: these are traffic stats for my website, you can buy a listing or ad space here, it’s going to cost X. Here is a Stripe pay button if you want. If you post shitty ads that violate what I have in mind with my website, I will ban you forever.

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Just take a look at the google ads API to get an impression about all metrics you can get from an ad [1]. It's frightening detailed and complex.

[1] https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/fields/v2/metri...

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