Comments on: A Real Alternative To AdSense

By: jimmy@competitors adwords

jimmy@competitors adwords — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:35:08 +0000

Google and adwords are an amazingly “robotic” company to deal with for one that is thought of as so modern. Anything even slightly out of the norm with them and you will find yourself just reading the same generic responses over and over unless you can get to talk to someone higher up which is rare. They seem to follow the paypal business model when it comes to customer service.

They are also amazingly good at passing the buck in their terms and conditions of service making them almost totally transparent.

By: Ryan Caldwell

Ryan Caldwell — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:57:55 +0000

See PopCrunch.com for more details. 2 column blog.

Kontera is a contextual link ad system. On PopCrunch they display as Pink links. Look through some of those posts to see them.

AuctionAds, is just like AdSense. You can place the code anywhere on the site, and it is displayed in standard square and rectangle sizes.

By: thebutler

thebutler — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:07:00 +0000

Ryan, I’m guessing these ads are being displayed on a three column blog? I’m wondering how you have them looking on the site. Kontera and Auction ads are sidebar widgets?

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Wed, 30 May 2007 18:35:40 +0000

Except you’re screwed on sites that can’t run AdSense. Certain niches are like that, and paid links pay very well. But I assume that if sponsors just want the targeted traffic and don’t care as much about PR, then you can probably not worry about your revenue dropping.

Of course, it’s nice to find alternatives that actually work. Nothing has worked for me except Text Link Ads, so it’s very disheartening if that stream goes.

By: Sean at GetClicky

Sean at GetClicky — Wed, 30 May 2007 18:07:21 +0000

Good write up. I highly recommend dropping AdSense like the horrible disease that it is and moving on to anything else available. Google’s anti-competitive BS, along with their willingness to drop any of their users without having to defend their reasoning (as happened to you), makes me very upset. I had an AdSense account a long time ago that got canceled because of claimed fraudulent activity, of which there was none (that I knew of).

I don’t know what’s up with the big G! I love their products and use many of them day to day (Search, Gmail, Calendar), but recently they are really testing my loyalty! I am referring to their recent punishment of paid links, which is complete non-sense. I understand trying to lessen the PageRank bleed to paid links, but to punish the site itself for having paid links is ludicrous. Oh, of course it’s ok to have Google ads on your site, or Google’s new “paid link” feature, but hey, go outside the Google ecosystem? No, Google is not ok with that!

By: Ryan Caldwell

Ryan Caldwell — Wed, 30 May 2007 17:04:43 +0000

Didn’t drop TLA. Just didn’t want to count that as part of the “new” alternative to adsense.

TLA remains stable.

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:34:41 +0000

Great to hear it. So why did you drop Text Link Ads?