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Smart ways to make money online. - Compatible Programs
I have receive many emails regarding what website sponsors or advertisers that are compatible with Adsense which means they can run side by side with Adsense on the same page. Well if you have not read my Smart ways to make money online - Get Started. Please click on Get Started.
As i have mention on the direct advertising income generated by advertisement placement, here are some other compatible programs that contribute to Smart ways to make money online.
Chitika
Chitika pays 60%, assuming you can somehow convince people to actually waste their time looking at it. The theory behind Chitika's flagship product, "eMiniMalls", is that people will visit your site, look at these obvious advertisements that truly live up to their names, and somehow be enticed to actually interact with them and maybe, just maybe, buy something.
I've been told that if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all. Along that vein, I'd like to say that, if you're a teenage web neophyte on a broadband connection, or a web developer wanting to play with a "release" level JSON application, you'll want to take a look at Chitika. For the rest of you, think of it as a very busy mall in downtown Chicago where the store you wanted to go to is always at the other end of the mall, and closes before you get there.
Maybe it's just the sites we create and manage, but this hasn't been raising any money for us at all (less than $15 total over more than six months - before we gave up on it), but several weeks after the day we started placing Chitika ads on our sites our Adsense income nearly doubled.
We were hesitant to remove the Chitika eMiniMalls from our sites, in case they were somehow responsible for our Adsense increase, but after removing the Chitika ads we found that our Adsense ads continued to climb. Whew. Leaving them up was a waste of good real estate.
Why bother? Well, I can imagine certain sites doing well with Chitika. If yours is a review site for a specific type of expensive technology product (like cell phones, mp3 players, or HDTV systems), you may do well with their service.
Chitika can be used with Adsense only if you explicitly provide products to advertise in their product array. If you use "Adsense for Search" then you must also disable the search box within Chitika, as Google explicitly forbids use of any other search provider on the same pages as "Adsense for Search". If you do not provide a list of products (or leave autosearch enabled) then it tends to always return technology-related ads - stuff like laptops and iPods, but is still not contractually compatible with Adsense.
Text-Link-Ads
Text-Link-Ads doesn't work the same way as most other ad services. The "ads" themselves are text-based, but are bid-rate and periodic. The interesting difference here is that you essentially go to the site and register an article or other content from your site (entire sites don't sell well), multiple pages are okay. Topical context is the only way to sell.
Included among your competition are sites like Topix and UnixReview, where the content of the site really does drive the ads. And the theory behind TLA, too.
Text-Link-Ads requires server-side scripting of some form to actually download the remote advertisement block for display. It is presented as html only, no images or client-side script. Links are included to the advertisers site which displays as actual html code on your own site, not as a linked javascript or something else. This has the benefit (for the advertiser) of a "real link," which will be counted and incorporated as a link by link-counting search engines and spiders - like Alexa and Google.
If your site, or certain sections of it, have a high PageRank or Alexa Rating then you have a much better chance of selling space on this service since that is how these advertisers place value on the targeted content. And it pays relatively well - at least $50/mo per ad, with the potential for significantly more depending on your traffic and focus.
Text-Link-Ads is compatible with Adsense since the ads themselves are not contextually generated (even if the vendors themselves are appropriate for the content), and Text-Link-Ads are not pay-per-click ads.
ProjectWonderful
The next advertising network we are showcasing is ProjectWonderful. ProjectWonderful truly is wonderful. They have a very simple and easy setup process and they do not rely on clicks or impressions, although both of these are monitored and made available to potential advertisers.
The advertisers bid on having your ad spot for 24 hour periods and pay whatever the going rate is, and if someone out bids an advertiser, the advertiser still pays for the minutes their ad runs. You also have the option of starting the bidding at whatever price you would like per day, including a starting price of $0.00. Setting the starting price of free gives you the opportunity to have the "Place your ad here" turn into a real ad to become more appealing on your site. You can also change the default "Place your ad here" logo to your own ad or image.
There are various sizes of ads from 117x30 to 728x90 and 160x600. Ads can be shown in buttons, squares, vertically or horizontally. Ads can also be grouped in multiples of rows and columns.
While it might not make you a millionaire, I think the setup at Project Wonderful is a great source of revenue for both big and small sites. If there are any spots in my ads without bids, feel free to bid $0.00 and have your ad up for free!
Amazon
Amazon, of course, has a pretty good affiliate thing going on, but they only pay a small fraction of what you can earn by others (it starts at a mere 4%), and it is based on actual conversions, not just click-throughs. The total payout might be more per actual conversion, but you have to have a very high volume to make this worthwhile.
Annette and I have been extending the Amazon links on our sites so we can use the income to support our massive video addiction. The new ad formats are working quite well. The recently released "aStore" feature also provides a very simple storefront for your websites with a mostly simple editor and the same breadth of product selection as the Amazon you know and love.
As long as you link products directly or use the aStore service, you can continue to use Adsense on the same page.
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