March 18th, 2009 | 
Author: I have recieved many emails and comments from various people asking me if there were any good alternatives to Adsense. A lot of the people asking have either had their adsense accounts banned for whatever reason or their applications turned down.
I am not talking about affiliate marketing or any other Internet marketing strategies in this case. I am discussing advertiser networks that offer similar services to Adsense.
Thankfully there are quite a few good alternatives to Adsense and in this first post in the series I offer a review of Adbrite’s publisher service.
Adbrite
I like adbrite very much, their service is a bit more relaxed with regard to their terms and conditions than Adsense. For example you can place ads on sites about gambling as well as the normal stuff. However, they don’t accept sites related to adult themes. Just like adsense they do not tolerate sites that are made for ads or any type of gimmicks and incentivising.
Adbrite pays their publishers after 60 days have passed since the click on the ad. They then will payout on the 10th of every month. Basically this means you have to wait initially for 60 days from the first click before you get paid and only if it meets your minimum check amount. Unlike Adsense they also only offer payment by check currently.
Adbrite works by setting up zones on your site which will be filled by ads. Adbrite can either place these ads automatically, or you the publisher can approve or reject ads accordingley. This is the major difference between Adbrite and Adsense, with Adsense you cannot approve the ads on your site, although to fair you can reject certain URLS from publishing ads on your site. They also offer some pretty neat “in-context” ads that generate ads when you hover your mouse over certain keywords.
Earnings from Adbrite are pretty comparable to Adsense generally speaking and I also see similar click through rates also.
Signing up for a publisher account is fairly painless and is usually set up for you very quickly.
Is Adbrite really reliable? I used it as an advertiser. After they upgraded their system last year, I found that their statistics became seriously buggy. Different reports did not tally against each other and it was impossible to determine if a campaign was successful or not. From making a spotty but small profit, I went to making a moderate loss.
So if Adbrite is not reliable for the advertiser, can it be reliable for the publisher?
I used Adbrite as an advertiser for a time, got thousands of clickthroughs but not one sale. Using Adwords for the same term I had a good CTR to Sales ratio. Led me to believe there’s lot of fraud happening on the site.
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Adbrite is much better than Bidvertiser, i already removed my Bidvertiser Ads.
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