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Re: Ask HN: AdSense alternatives?

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Post by ceejayoz »

vblord wrote: post #27
antjanus wrote: post #17

Honestly, none of that. Create your own "ad network". Basically, figure out the theme of your blog and what kind of people it attracts and then find affiliate programs for that. For example. Let's say your tutorials are for developers. What do developers need? * development tools * hosting * further courses/learning That will yield a pretty good list of affiliates that will convert well such as: * New Relic * Digital…

is a site called AntiAnus safe for me to view at work?

The link reads ANTJANUS, not ANTIANUS.

Re: Ask HN: AdSense alternatives?

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Post by sandycheeks »

toddynho wrote: post #16

Todd from @BuySellAds here. An ideal setup is one in which you utilize about a handful of different companies in the "Tier 2" position. Probably no more than a handful though, because after that it gets hard to manage and rather convoluted. Tier 1 is your directly sold ads (stuff you sell on your own directly to an advertiser or through a company like BuySellAds). Tier 2 is where the AdSense's of the world will live.…

We've noticed a decrease in tier 1 advertisers over the last 18 months. We get a million+ uniques per month and are very picky about the ads we run. The decrease in tier 1 has been small businesses who have become concerned that their ads may be misconstrued as 'link buying' and will cause them to be penalized in Google's search so all that is left for us are the large brands. Many of the small businesses had been advertising with us for over five years.

We've been considering BuySellAds because of the high quality of the ads we see them run on other sites.

Re: Ask HN: AdSense alternatives?

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Post by gesman »

scotchio wrote: post #6
gesman wrote: post #4

I suggest to come up with your own buyable products (tutorials, how-to's, etc..) and show half of it (teaser) to everyone and allow to see the rest to paid members. Then you may charge per download, or full access based on recurring membership fee. You may also offer free membership to capture emails and then market to interested visitors further. Whoring your traffic to other people's platforms or products leaves no…

Thanks for your feedback. Yeah, this is probably the direction we will eventually have to go. I really like this approach, but we'd rather focus on the content and articles now versus, say, the business side of it - unless it grows into something bigger. My other thought was to put new articles up with a community-based bitcoin paywall. Basically if we receive "X" donations from the community, this article becomes pu…

I'm actually the one who created free Bitcoin plugin for Wordpress/WooCommerce as well :)

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bitcoin-payments-for-woocommer...

Feel free to utilize it for that purpose. It could be a great strategy.

Re: Ask HN: AdSense alternatives?

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Post by billmalarky »

Ryan_Jones wrote: post #5

so, I realize this might be seen as spam, but I am always trying out adsense alternatives and regularly maintain a list of the ones I'm trying out. http://www.dotcult.com/best-adsense-alternatives/ TLDR: casale, Lijit, technorati are working best for me.

Lijit was the best alternative for me, and I went through a good 5-6 networks. However, their CPM's were significantly less than adsense. Their support is really good though and they do actually have control over their inventory unlike a lot of other ad networks I worked with (many networks claim to be able to block audible/video/popup malicious ads but still allow many to slip through). Technorati is decent I believe (only used them for about a month) but their ads must be served out of an iframe (so they can't be contextual - so less CPM) because their ad servers are so slow and they are page blocking.

Re: Ask HN: AdSense alternatives?

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Post by CyberShadow »

JeremyMorgan wrote: post #13
avalaunch wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linking to a page that exactly answers the question being asked is definitely not spam.

Exactly, but I could see the concern with posting it. Upvoted for relevance

One possible concern is that the article uses affiliate links for every recommendation.

Re: Ask HN: AdSense alternatives?

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Post by stevesearer »

toddynho wrote: post #16

Todd from @BuySellAds here. An ideal setup is one in which you utilize about a handful of different companies in the "Tier 2" position. Probably no more than a handful though, because after that it gets hard to manage and rather convoluted. Tier 1 is your directly sold ads (stuff you sell on your own directly to an advertiser or through a company like BuySellAds). Tier 2 is where the AdSense's of the world will live.…

Tier 1 is definitely the way to go - on the site I run, which I see as being great content with a high-value audience, we can direct sell an ad for 6-8x what we'd pocket from Google for the same real estate.

Re: Ask HN: AdSense alternatives?

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Post by borat4prez »

mdprasadeng wrote: post #35

http://www.media.net/publishers media.net, my previous company. We used to consider ourself in competition with adsense. They have some big name customers like forbes, cosmopolitan etc.

I recently split my ads (50% AdSense | 50% Media.Net) on one of the blogs I maintain and they both earn very close to the same amount every day. I like the service.
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