Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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Post by gesman » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 10:51 PM UTC

zubspace wrote: post #28

seddin wrote: post #5

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…

I once developed data backup software and paid $500/mo to website owner who had great blog articles on backup tools and technologies to put on my gif banner ad.

This was win-win for all. I made tons of sales from there.

So my suggestion is to work not on website that is good for ads, but on website that is good to deliver information and answers on questions. Ads and referral sales will come after that.

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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Post by fourstar » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 11:43 PM UTC

rchaud wrote: post #36

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/dif…

The future is BAT/Brave with incentivized browsing.

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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Post by mkr-hn » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 11:47 PM UTC

fourstar wrote: post #52

rchaud wrote: post #36

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/dif…

The future is BAT/Brave with incentivized browsing.

No one should use Brave or any project from the company behind it.

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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Post by mkr-hn » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 12:30 AM UTC

There's WordAds for WordPress-based sites.

https://wordads.co/

I used it years ago and it worked okay. I don't know what it's like now.

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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Post by rchaud » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 6:10 PM UTC

fourstar wrote: post #52

rchaud wrote: post #36

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/dif…

The future is BAT/Brave with incentivized browsing.

I'm a happy user of Android Brave browser, and even I know that there will never be enough users for BAT to take off. BTW, the desktop Brave browser on Mac OS is horribly slow and has compatibility issues with Chrome extensions that it says it supports.

Fortunately the Android browser's adblocking is very good, and the ability to turn scripts off with a single toggle means I won't be switching anytime soon.

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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Post by rsd79 » Tue, Nov 05, 2019, 4:56 PM UTC

rchaud wrote: post #36

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/dif…

I'm running a website with a browser game which is monetized with AdSense. The site relies on user generated content for freshness and a significant effort went into white-hat SEO. It's a reasonable entertainment for visitors rather than something built around AdSense in the first place. Monthly revenue in high $100s range, but I'm currently experimenting with another provider to optimize revenue. Considering the numbers below the revenue seems quite small (in part due to popularity in countries with generally lower online ads cost), so I'm constantly looking for ways to improve it.

Monthly visitors >50k, pageviews ~800k, average session time ~30min, bounce rate No problems with payments from Google at all.

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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Post by agnelvishal » Sun, Nov 10, 2019, 10:00 AM UTC

You can join the waitlist for Brave ads at https://brave.com/brave-ads-waitlist Brave Browser is made By Brendan Eich who created the javascript programming language and the cofounder of Mozilla Foundation.