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How to Increase Your Adsense CTR x20 in 3 Minutes

2006-11-29T21:51:00.000-08:00

I have a couple of blogs and experimenting with google adsense. I'm in for only a couple of months, so i actually thought the main thing i need is great traffic.

Things changed when one of my posts (not from this blog) went to reddit top 5. it then appeared at fark and delicious tops also. i had something like 60000 visitors in two days, and earned... well, a dollar or so.

that's the moment i started thiniking about optimizing my pages for adsense.

I already had ads with no borders, and colors were matching my template. i searched web for some answers, and did a couple of things. after that, my CTR increased about 20 times. unfortunately, at that moment traffic was quite low, but i still have some everyday income that is about 20 times higher. here are the simple steps:

Instead of 468x15 Link Unit i put 300x250 Rectangle at the top of my page under it's header.
I made links blue. Yes, people simply expect free links to be blue.
I made ads urls color match text color.

As simple as that! If i did that before, i could get about 150$ in 2 days. So make the changes right now!. If you experience your CTR increase after doing this (belive me, you will!), let me know. Perhaps, next success story will be about you!

Source: http://earnviaadsense.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-to-increase-your-adsense-ctr-x20.html

How to Earn Money With Google Adsense

2006-11-29T21:48:00.000-08:00

If you're just geatting started, there's a simple formula for you to understand how to earn money with google adsense:

Revenue = Traffic * CTR * CPC

You probably understand what traffic means.

So CTR is Click Through rate, and it means how many of your visitors are clicking ads. It actually depends on how your site is adsense-optimized.

CPC is Cost Per Click. Different words have different costs. Some can be about $0,01, some are over $10.

Source: http://earnviaadsense.blogspot.com/2006/09/adsense-formula-how-to-earn-money-with.html

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2006-11-29T21:44:00.000-08:00

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Keyword Resources

2006-11-29T04:24:00.000-08:00

http://www.instantkeywordresearch.com/?gclid=COavma2UgIQCFTtzGgodMHOmgA
This for-sale product gives you access to thousands of Internet advertising keywords. Also provides a pay-per-click estimated value per word and estimated daily clicks per word. Also gives you a list of related words, search figures for related words and estimated daily clicks for these words. Includes a keyword misspelling generator, a list of the top 4600 search keywords and several bonus CDs to assist you in your keyword search.

http://www.goodkeywords.com/
This free software enables you to find the best search keywords. It has a site meter and popularity meter that enables you to see how your site compares to your competitor's sites, a keyword phrase builder, a misspelled word generator, and a Web page explorer that lets you study Web pages for word density.

http://www.wordtracker.com/keyword-research-guide.pdf
Free keyword research guide discusses why keywords matter, what you can do with Wordtracker, converting traffic using Wordtracker, how to gauge the size of your market, why keywords are important in paid search, finding keywords, and designing an online market strategy.

http://www.toppayingkeywords.com/
Get a free list of 25 of the top keywords here. They also sell a database of 20,000 popular keywords that lists each words price.

http://www.keyworddigger.com/
Download a free keyword search tool.

Source: http://www.deitel.com/GoogleAdSense/AdSenseResourceCenter_Page2.html

How to Reapply for Google AdSense

2006-11-20T07:00:00.000-08:00

Summary for: How to Reapply for Google AdSense

There are two main cases when you would be put in the situation to reapply for Google™ AdSense

either you were rejected at application
or your account was suspended for some reason

There is also the situation when a site changes owner (when sold), when it is necessary for the new owner to apply even if the site had been part of the program before.

A. You Were Rejected at Application

Most of the times it may be by rights, in which case you will have to seriously re-analyze your site and see if it observes AdSense™'s rules and policies and the unofficial acceptance requirements. Unfortunately, not many are the times when the AdSense™ people explain the reason of rejection, so you'll have to try and detect yourself the possible cause. If you can do that and then “fix” it, usually you are accepted when reapplying.
Sometimes it just happens you are rejected without a solid reason (even they make mistakes!) Usually, these cases are solved easily. If you truly feel you were wronged, you may send them an email meant to draw their attention to your site. They usually re-evaluate such cases and give the approval immediately (if the case).

B. Your Account was Disabled

You might get banned generally for any violation of the program policies. Usually you simply receive an email shortly descriptive of the reasons that got you banned. In such situations you have to know how to rally your forces and react. Some case are more likely to get your account disabled easily. Here are some of the most occurring ones:

1. Click Fraud

AdSense™ registers clicks on the ads in your account that they consider malicious or fraudulent. It is a critical situation and usually when an account is barred for this reason, all data related to the account (including name, mailing address, domains, contact information, tax information, IP address) are stored into their “black list” and if you try to reapply using any of these data, your application will be rejected. However, AdSense™ does not react by disabling your account at once. It warns you at first, and if the clicks are proven to have been performed mistakenly, nothing happens.

Solution:

Send them an apology, admitting blame. For, no matter if you consider you have done nothing wrong, they will see this situation triggered by one of your actions, even if not directly.
Offer to make compensation on the fraudulent clicks on your site. This would ensure them that you are truly sorry.
Be persistent. Keep a polite tone, but send an email once a week, thus they will see you are comitted and loyal to the program.

2. Inappropriate Content or/and Other Contextual Ads on the Page

Pages that have content that is not according to the their policies, you're sure for barring. On the other hand, situations happen when the page content is not actually in the categories described as off-limits, but is interpreted as inappropriate by the bot and the ads become PSAs. This may occur for example when there are some “stop” words on your page or even some references to taboo topics.

Solution: In these cases you should analyze carefully what caused you dismantled and repair things (remove other contextual ads if the case). And then submit your site again.

3. Site Contains Incentives to Click

This occurs most times from insufficient knowledge of AdSense™'s policies, We dare say, as we cannot imagine another good reason to put on your pages phrases like “click here” or “support us” if you know the rules. Or posting even on other pages, outside your site encouragements such as “visit my sponsors” or “feel free to stop by”.

Solution: It may work if you just remove all sort of such incentive and submit again.

4. Other Possible Cases

When you are informed of your account disabling you may get a puzzling explanation, something about your website being of a type which is not supported in the AdSense™ program, even if it's not a chat site, a personal page, a domain registration site or anything like that -- types that are officially known to pose such problems.

Solution: Under normal circumstances, if analyzing all data, you find your exclusion unfair, contact AdSense™ by email. This may work even without requiring any changes to your site.

5. Banned because of functionality problems

When there is any problem on any page that causes it to automatically refresh.
When you have an automatic procedure serving Google ads to all pages including 404 error pages and search pages.
When there are some broken links or any other site disfunctionalities that come against Google stipulations.

Solution: Solving the problems will usually do the trick.

Source: How to Reapply for Google AdSense

How to Prevent Your Account Disabling

2006-11-20T06:31:00.000-08:00

Pay attention!

Useless to advise against any click on the ads on your own sites, as it's too common!
The best you can do is to constantly watch the activity on your sites. There are also click-monitoring software that can automatically report any peculiarity (or generate a message through the internet client of the possible offender, who is ussually discouraged in such cases). Whenever you notice something out of the ordinary let AdSense™ know.
Don't ever check your stats on any computer other than your own, and keep secrecy around your AdSense™ activity.
If you suspect a certain static IP you can block it via .htaccess.
- Filtering IPs via a .htaccess file seems a smart and logical step to take to prevent fraudulent activities from competitors
- You can disable ads for your own IP to be safer.
A very good measure would be to implement clicks limit (like 1-3 clicks from same IP for same ad a day).

When suspecting click fraud on your site, the first action advisable would be to temporarily disable the ads displaying on your site to prevent it from happening again and then reporting it to AdSense™.

Source: How to Prevent Your Account Disabling

How to Deal with Click Fraud

2006-11-20T06:22:00.000-08:00

Summary for: How to Deal with Click Fraud

Click fraud causes the most severe penalty (account banning). Publishers should be on the watch, for they are unprotected against it. Even if not guilty, publishers get penalized as they have the duty to take their measures against this and monitor closely the activity in their AdSense™ accounts.

Being aware of its existence is essential but it's not enough, the key-solution is constant monitoring: you just have to be on the watch of your own web advertising activity, either you are an advertiser or a publisher.

What Is Click Fraud?

Click fraud is an illegal practise through which false clicks on PPC advertisments are generated, with the purpose of swerving advertising data, with no possibility whatsoever for a conversion to occur. That is, purely stealing from advertisers who pay for each click. Fraudulent clicks are also referred to as “invalid”, “malicious” or “artificial”.

The main trigger-reasons are:

when competitors want to run up a bill for an advertiser;
when CPC affiliates want to increase per-click commissions on the traffic they generate for the ads.
when hackers create software that perform fraudulent clicks and use it to threaten various companies in order to obtain money; (extortion)
when it is done by former or discontent employees. (vengeance)

How Is It Done?

Manually generated clicks - Where surfers are paid to click on paid-ads on their employer’s websites or on his competitors' sites.
Automated methods - Software applications or “hitbots”, designed to click on paid ads.

Once an invalid activity tracked, Google™'s position is as follows:

Advertisers are not charged for clicks or impressions that were identified as fraudulent. Or refunds are made if the case.
Publishers are not judged starting from the assumption of innocence and are severely penalized without much debate: AdSense™ account dismantled. They give no guarantee for the possibility of account reinstatement although they state their opening for discussion, considering the possibility of sabotage.

Most of us are just as frightened as the advertisers to become so, for click fraud is the primary reason (and the most serious one) for Google™ to disable AdSense™ accounts. And, while advertisers are usually refunded in such cases, AdSense™ publishers are banned without possibility of account reinstatement.

What Actions Can Be Interpreted as Click Fraud?

The first sign that could be read as suspect would be an abnormal rise in CTR in a very short period of time (on one day for example)
A grave mistake would be for the webmaster to intentionally click on his own site ads.
Also, incentives to click are penalized as sterile clicks inducers.
Including ads on registration or error pages may be considered as click fraud generator (as, being on such a page, the user would have no other choice than to click on your ads).

Source: How to Deal with Click Fraud

New referrals for Google Pack and Picasa

2006-11-19T19:12:00.000-08:00

We're happy to announce that, in addition to AdSense, AdWords, and Firefox with Google Toolbar, you can now refer your users to Google Pack and Picasa. You'll earn up to $2 for each time a user installs Pack and up to $1 for each Picasa install. Although Picasa referrals will be available for several AdSense languages, Pack referrals are currently only offered in US English.

To display Pack and Picasa referral buttons on your site, all you have to do is select Referrals from the AdSense Setup page of your account, and then select the product of your choice. And remember, now US English publishers can use text links for your referrals.

Source: New referrals for Google Pack and Picasa

How Does Google Detects Invalid Clicks

2006-11-11T04:30:00.000-08:00

Author: Casey Yew

A lot of Google AdSense publishers are banned from the Google AdSense program for invalid clicks. Some of these Google AdSense publishers manage to get their AdSense account reinstated. However, majority of them failed to do so. As a result, they are banned from the Google AdSense program.

Google does not reveal any specific details about invalid clicks in order to protect their proprietary clicks fraud detection technology. Hence, you would not know who is generating these clicks on your site or where these clicks come from.

If you are not getting any details of the invalid clicks from the termination letter, it may be a good idea to learn how Google defines these clicks and ways to detect them.

Google defines invalid clicks as:

Manual clicks intended to increase publisher's advertising
Clicks by automated tools, robots, or other deceptive software.

So how does Google detect these clicks and how would they know which clicks are invalid?

Google AdSense team uses three powerful tools to detect invalid clicks:

Detection and Filtering Tool: Each click on an AdSense ad is monitored by Google system. Google will record the IP of each click, the time of the click, duplicate clicks and various click patterns. Google will use these factors and filter out potential invalid clicks.
Advanced Monitoring Tool: Google uses its proprietary software to monitor clicks fraud activity. They are constantly working to improve their technology.
The Google Team: In addition, Google has a team that uses specialized tools and techniques to examine individual case of clicks fraud. When Google system detects potentially invalid clicks, a member of this team will examines the affected account.

Despite the effort that Google put in to improve their clicks fraud detection technology, there are few innocent publishers whose AdSense account has been suspended or banned temporarily for different reasons. For example, a sudden spike in your AdSense earnings would probably raise the red flag in their system and cause your AdSense account to be suspended. If your AdSense account is suspended for invalid clicks which you did not commit, Google provides you a way to make your appeal:

http://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/request.py?contact=invalid_clicks_appeal

A Piece of Advice

When you are making your appeal via email, you should stay calm and plan the right strategy. You should be patient when dealing with Google and most importantly you should be polite when communicating with them. You may take initiative to provide them with all the documents they need.

Tips for Improving AdSense Performance

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Source: ArticleStreet.com

Tear Down the Borders

Remove borders on your AdSense ads.
Web visitors eyes wander around the screen; borders stop them from wandering.
Removing borders from your AdSense ads can lead to a significant boost in CTR.

Use Matching Fonts

Match the font of your site content to the fonts of your AdSense ads.

Use Matching Colors

Match the colors of your AdSense ads to the colors of your site content.
Make the ads look like content and more visitors will look at them.
One exception to the color matching rule is sites that are designed to appeal to scammers and spammers.
Those sites sometimes perform better with highly contrasting colors.

Use Blue Links

Another exception to the color matching rule is to set the links in your AdSense ads to blue.
Blue links tend to have a higher CTR than other link colors, because people have become used to clicking blue links.

Use Large Ads

Larger ads outperform smaller ads.
Wider ads also outperform more narrow ads.
The Large Rectangle (336x280) is the best performing ad unit.

Use Lots of Ads

Google allows you to use three ad units and one link unit on each page.
Use them all. The more ads you have, the higher your Page CTR will be.

Place Ads Above the Fold

"The fold" is industry jargon for "the part of the page that the user sees without scrolling down".
This will vary depending upon the resolution of the users screen and the size of their browser window.
Place as many ads as possible above the fold.
Ads placed below the fold are seldom seen and seldom clicked.

Place Ads on the Left

Web users are accustomed to seeing menus on the left side of the web page.
Move your menu to the right and place your AdSense ads on the left.

Use the Heat Map

Use the Google AdSense Heat Map to determine where to place ads.
The darker spots are areas where users spend more time looking.
Place your ads in the darker areas.

Integrate Ads with Content

Visitors will be reading your content.
Keeps your ads as close to your content as possible to ensure that the visitors also look at your ads.

Use Custom Channels

Use AdSense's Custom Channels to test the performance of different ad sizes, placements, colors and fonts.

Don't use Low-Paying Competing Ads

Don't clutter your page with competing ads that don't pay.
If a user clicks on an ad that pays you $.01, they are not clicking on an ad that pays you $.30.

Use URL Channels

Use AdSense URL Channels to determine which pages are making you the highest CTR, CPM, and earnings.
Focus your efforts on building pages like those.

Use an AdSense Reporting Package

Google only supports 200 channels.
If you have more than 200 pages, use AdSense reporting software to give you more insight into your AdSense earnings.

Don't Compete for Other Peoples High Paying Keywords

If a keyword is on a list of high-paying keywords, that means that thousands of spammers are already competing for that keyword.
Don't be a follower.
There is no money in being one of the crowd.

Do Compete for Your Own High Paying Keywords

Monitor your AdSense URL channels to determine which keywords are making you the most money.
Compete for those keywords.
Build more pages optimized for similar keywords.
Get inbound links for those keywords.
Spend your time and efforrt on the keywords which are making you money.

Increase Traffic

In the long run, the best way to increase your AdSense revenue is to increase traffic to your web site.

15 Great Google AdSense tips to earn money

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Summary for: http://adsense-exposure.blogspot.com/2006/10/15-great-google-adsense-tips-to-earn.html

Google AdSense Tip #1: Find your keywords
Before serving ads on a web page, check its keyword density. A free and advanced tool for finding the most prominent keywords in a page can be found here: SEO Density Analyzer.

Google AdSense Tip #2: Improve your keywords
Get keyword suggestions from Overture Search Inventory and from Google AdWords Sandbox. Get new keywords that can help you improve your ad relevance.

Google AdSense Tip #3: Keep your website focused on a theme
Use the keyword suggestions to enhance your web pages and to build theme-based content. And also try to get your keywords into the anchor text of your incoming links as much as possible. Don't forget that Google Google AdSense is keyword-targeted advertising.

Google AdSense Tip #4: Write a new page every day
One of the best tips is to add a new page to your web site every day. The more content you have, the more visitors you will get. Put an Google AdSense unit on each and every content page of your site.

Google AdSense Tip #5: Choose the right Google AdSense format
Wider formats are successful because the ads are compact, easy to read and are complementary to the content. The top three Google AdSense formats are:

336x280 large rectangle
300x250 medium rectangle
160x600 wide skyscraper

Google AdSense Tip #6: Color tips
When creating your Google Google AdSense ads it is recommended to use the color scheme and style of your website so that the ads blend in well. Ads without background color and borders perfom better than ads within borders with background color.

Google AdSense Tip #7: Position tips
Visitors tend to look at the big headlines to see if your page is worth reading. If you get them interested, they will read the text and look for your navigation links. Place the Google AdSense ads in a prominent place around the top/left part of your page or under your headlines, where your visitors are most likely to look at. If you have an article page with a long body of text, the bottom of that article is a good place for Google AdSense ads because your visitors read the text and then they want more resources.

Google AdSense Tip #8: Increase the number of ads
If you have a lot of text on a page, use multiple Google AdSense units. You can use up to three Google AdSense units on a page, two Google AdSense search boxes and one unit of ad links. Link units allow the user to refine what they're interested in. So if they may not be interested in specific ads on your page, they might be interested in a particular topic, and by clicking on a link unit and a link in the link unit, they'll be able to specify that they're interested in that specific topic and get a lot more options and variety on the ads that might appear on the search results.

Google AdSense Tip #9: Preview Google ads
You can find out what ads will be served by Google Google AdSense if you install Google Google AdSense Preview Tool, a very simple tool available only for Internet Explorer 6.0. Click to advertiser sites without generating invalid clicks, and easily add their URLs to your URL filter list. Because Google AdSense uses geo-targeting, Google serves different ads for other countries. Instead of faking your IP or travelling abroad to test your ads, use this Google AdSense tool to see what ads see your visitors from France, Germany or other countries.

Google AdSense Tip #10: What not to do

Don't click your own ads
Don't ask others to click on your Google ads
Don't manually change Google AdSense code
Don't place Google ads on sites that include prohibited content (e.g.: adult sites)
Don't employ cloaking, hidden text or farm links
Don't use Google AdSense ads on the same page with similar ads (e.g.: Yahoo Publisher Network)

Google AdSense Tip #11: Show images above or next to your ads
Placing images above Google AdSense ads is not necessarily prohibited by program policies. However, depending on the method of implementation this could be considered encouraging users to click on ads. So you should include a border line between the ads and the images. Don't show specific products in your images, in order not to mislead the visitors. Just use generic images that will increase the visibility of your ads.

Google AdSense Tip #12: Use section targeting
Use section targeting to emphasize some content in your page. On your site, place this code where you want to emphasize. Content you want to emphasize. If you want some content to be ignored, use

Google AdSense Tip #13: Alternate the colors of your ads
Google AdSense allows you to have up to 4 color variations for each variable for which you can specify color. You should do that if you put Google AdSense ads on pages that receive many impressions from the same visitors (for example forums) to reduce ad blindness.

Google AdSense Tip #14: Your Google ads should be visible
Make sure your text ads are visible to the surfers in all screen formats. If you put the ads in a table give sufficient breathing room, i.e. proper cell padding and cell spacing to make the ads stand out from the rest of your content.

Google AdSense Tip #15: Use Google AdSense channels
You can categorize the content of your website into channels and then track your performance. This way you can experiment with different types of ads and see which is performing the best. Instead of buying an Google AdSense tracker, you can enter the most important pages in your site and see how they are doing. Create up to 200 channels for Google AdSense.

How to simply boost your referral success

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Summary for:http://adsense-exposure.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-to-simply-boost-your-referral.html

The referral buttons are a good way to add money to your site's income. Now we're going to learn how we can make the most out of the buttons, and Boost our referral's success.

1. Choose the referral button, that suits your site the best.

If you're sites outlet and backgrounds are all pink, do not use an orange referral button.
Make sure the size is right.
Choose a nice elegant button, which sits nicely in your site, is better than a huge ugly button.

2. Choose the most attractive content for your referral buttons.

The most attractive content for the Google adsense program is, "Generate revenue from your website".
For the FireFox referral button, "Browse the web faster. Get FireFox with Google toolbar".

3. Make sure you know what you're doing.

Do not put referral buttons in the middle of the text.
Never say something like- 'Click this Button!!
You can mention somewhere on your site that if someone is interested in the software, he is welcome to download it easily threw the referral button on your site.

Improve Your Earnings by 5 Folds

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Summary for:
http://adsense-exposure.blogspot.com/2006/09/adsense-improve-your-earnings-by-5.html

The Best Position - You must identify the most likely position where the reader would be most tempted to click. At first you might have to follow what Adsense Gurus have suggested.
White Is In Demand - Having more white space around the article and the Ad will definitely increase your click through rate.
What is Your Ad Size? - Highly effective Ad formats are 336x250 and 768x120.
Be Discreet - Include text ads which are relevant to the theme. Place the ads where the reader is likely to seek a break while reading the article or your copy.
Artistic Way To Be Discreet - The font, color and texture should match with the rest of the page. This will make the ad looks like part of the article.
Use The Maximum but Have a Balance - Always try to use maximum number of adsense ads in each page. Don't lose balance however! Ads should not dominate the page.
Measure the effectiveness of Ad units - Always make use of Google Adsense channels to identify which position or format has produced high click through rates. Be prepared to change the Ad format, color and position according to your findings.

Top 10 Adsense Tools

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Summary for: http://pro-seo.blogspot.com/2006/07/top-10-adsense-tools.html

Advert Comparison Tool - To compare how adverts will look from various PPC providers such as YPN and Chitika with different color formats.

AdsenseEarnings Calculator - Tell you what you will be likely to earn though adsense over a period of time.

Domain Blacklist - This adsense tool will be able to generate a list of domains you should block through your competitive ad filter.

Adsense Sandbox - It will be able to tell you what kinds of adverts will be displayed in your adsense blocks based on keywords.

Adsense preview - This tool is from google.com and is similar to the adsense sandbox tool. It will be able to give you an idea about what types of adverts you will get based on keywords.

Adsense Earnings Notifier - This adsense tool will display your current adsense earnings in your firefox status bar. Much easier than keep loging into adsense.

Competitive Filter - It will let you block your competition from advertising on your site and it will also allow you to block low paying domains from advertising on your site.

Search Tracker - This tool will let you keep track of how many times a specific search is made. It will be able to tell you how many times a keyword or phrase is searched for.

Overture Bidding Tool - This tool will be able to give you suggested keywords and an estimation on thier cost. While overture isn't the same as adsense it will be able to give you an idea and the price is similar on all CPC engines.

Heat Map - The heat map will shoow you where to place your adverts on the page to get them performing at thier best.

The Best Adsense Alternatives

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Summary for: http://adsensemaster.blogspot.com/2006/01/best-adsense-alternatives.html

You can try them if you get banned from Adsense or just want to test Google AdSense alternatives.

Clicksor

Clicksor will pay you up to 60% of the advertising clicks revenues generated from your website. Contextual Advertising Technology by Clicksor allows your visitors to enjoy the content of your website and bring generous earnings to you at the same time.

TargetPoint

Targetpoint’s services are particularly publisher-oriented: You’ll have absolute control over the appearance of your ads, supervision over ad content, up-to-date statistics on your site’s performance and, most importantly, better bottom-line revenue.

MarketBanker

MarketBanker features:

* Instant, free setup
* No software to install, just 4 lines of HTML
* You set pricing for your site
* Accept all major credit cards
* Small, non-intrusive text links (40 chars) are a pleasure
* Approve or reject each link for your site
* Automated link start and expiration
* Track success with MarketBanker Statistics
* Included in MarketBanker's site directory
* Frequently Asked Questions

BidClix

Ten reasons why publishers are choosing BidClix, and making us one of the Internet's leading ad networks:

Get paid more for your ad inventory.
Fast payment
Thousands of advertisers.
Quality and integrity of our sites.
Highly efficient marketplace.
Real-time reporting.
Greater flexibility and control.
A dedicated selling team that can fill 100% of your inventory.
Quick and easy to get started.
Responsibility, Responsiveness, and Reliability.

Chitika

RealContext helps Online Publishers maximize their ad revenues by displaying contextually relevant, targeted, and best bang-for-the-buck ads on their websites.

RealContext will select ads that are:

Relevant To Your Content
Targeted To Your Visitors' Interests
Selected to Maximize Revenues

AllFeeds

Are you a Google Adsense account that's tired of not getting paid for Google's default public service listings? Replace them with Allfeeds.com technology today! With hardly any effort, you can add Allfeeds's targeted listings to your existing Google Adsense account! It looks and feels the same but you get paid more often! Replace those public service ads today!

AffiliateSensor

We have all of the adformats supplied by Google AdSense, so you can use our ads to replace the Public Service Ads (PSA's). We even have a special link format that you can add directly into the google_alternate_ad_url line of your AdSense code.

AffiliateSense makes money by sending 5% of the ad-block impressions to their own ClickBank account and 5% to the account of whoever you signed up through.

Bidvertiser

Join BidVertiser now and we will turn your advertising space into cash! Simply display the BidVertiser text ads on your website and let advertisers bid against each other! We will always display the highest bidders to maximize your revenue!

Veoda

Veoda has several opportunities to partner and earn money:

* Static Listings Professional Contextual Ads Highly Acclaimed
* Flash Listings professional animated scrolling ads
* Search box Customizable search box that pays
* Fly in Ads Text based Ads that Fly-In on a users screen
* PowerBox™ Professionally created search box and results
* Xml Feeds Data feed for external parsing
* Refer Users Receive 30% of all deposits/earnings for life

Revenue Pilot

RevenuePilot provides you with the most innovative, efficient and effective way to monetize your traffic. The Pay For Performance (PFP) and the Pay Per Click (PPC) markets have created ample opportunity for the web publishing community to turn its traffic into pure profits. RevenuePilot offers its affiliates seamless entrance into this highly profitable arena through its Premiere Pay Per Click Network.

Kanoodle Bright Ads

Put Kanoodle's sponsored links on your Web site and earn revenue with every click! No matter what type of content you have on your site, Kanoodle has BrightAds to match - so they're always relevant and sure to appeal to your site's visitors.

Enhance Interactive

Enhance Interactive serves its customers' paid listings and contextual advertisements on search engines and content-based Web sites throughout the Internet. We partner with industry leaders such as MSN and InfoSpace, as well as smaller search engines and targeted content sites, and we pay them cash for displaying our advertisers' messages.

Quigo AdSonar

Make more money from your site traffic, on your terms. AdSonar gives you the tools to quickly and easily place advertisements on your site that will interest your users and produce clicks.

Searchfeed

By partnering with Searchfeed.com, Webmasters enhance site content while earning additional revenue from existing Web traffic. Through the integration of paid keyword content, visitors gain access to more relevant information about an area of interest, increasing usability and overall 'stickiness' of a partner's site.

Vibrant Media IntelliTXT

Vibrant Media's patent-pending IntelliTXT technology highlights commercial text links from keywords appearing within pages of online content. Vibrant Media's proprietary technology automates the analysis and categorization of content, identifies the most appropriate marketing message to deliver and, when activated by the user, dynamically serves advertising messages to the right user at the right time.

Nixie

Nixxie's partnership solution uses intelligent technology that can read and understand the content of your websites pages. By doing so, Nixxie delivers advertising that is most relevant to the content of your web pages.

MIVA AdRevenue Xpress

AdRevenue XpressTM (ARX) provides immediate revenue opportunities to web publishers by monetizing website traffic. ARX is a unique distribution program, offering small-to-medium-sized web publishers the opportunity to generate revenue by displaying relevant MIVA ad content on their website. By offering relevant content and services, partners extend brand equity and improve site visitor experience.

Fastclick

Generating revenue, superior technology, a trusting partnership and customer support are the driving force of our Publisher network.

contextWeb ContextAd

ContextAd provides a dramatic increase in click throughs, resulting in higher effective CPMs. Matching the most appropriate spots to the most appropriate advertisers translates into the ability to better manage and sell inventory. Additionally, the technology's unique ability to bridge keyword and category targeting means it can access new inventory that publishers can offer advertisers, creating entirely new revenue streams. These factors represent critical competitive and economic differentiators in the rapidly evolving contextual advertising category.

TargetFirst

Accelerate your site's revenue
Earning Power
Technology
Relationship

Clickcent

Generating revenue, superior technology, a trusting partnership and customer support are the driving force of our Publisher network.