Top Ad networks for Publishers - Google Adsense Alternatives

I am getting a lot of emails for suggesting new ad networks. One of the reason for this is adsense is not excepting new publishers (why not sure !) may be because they have better options available for them comparatively and other is people are not making much money out of their ad networks. There is no harm in trying out new things

Here is the list of the most popular and top ad networks or you may call them the Google Adsense Alternatives:Clicksor
Alexa Rank - 47.
Ads Served - Inline Text(CPC), Text(CPC), Banner(CPC & CPM), Pop Under(CPV), Full Page(CPV).
Site Requirements - Site in 5000+ hits, min 50% USA,UK,CANADA traffic.
Comment - Good contextual ads, min payout $50.

Tribalfusion
Alexa Rank - 223.
Ads Served - Banner(CPM), Pop Under(CPV), Full Page(CPV), Video(CPV).
Site Requirements - 5000+ daily hits.
Comment - Famous for CPM ads.

Paypopup
Alexa Rank - 497.
Ads Served - Banner(CPM), Pop Under(CPM & CPV), Full Page(CPV).
Site Requirements - 5000+ monthly hits.
Comment - Non English sites excepted.

Admagnet
Alexa Rank - 546.
Ads Served - Inline Text(CPC), Text(CPC), Banner(CPC & CPM), Pop Under(CPV), Full Page(CPV), Video(CPV).
Site Requirements - You have to register, they will check your site for content and get back to you.
Comment - Good contextual ads.

Adbrite
Alexa Rank - 835.
Ads Served - Inline Text(CPC), Text(CPC), Banner(CPC & CPM), Full Page(CPV), Btitepic(CPC).
Site Requirements - No particular requirements.
Comment - Easy to register, Min payout $10, Pays after 60 days.

Ero-advertising
Alexa Rank - 1473.
Ads Served - Inline Text(CPC), Text(CPC), Banner(CPM), Pop Up(CPV), Pop Under(CPV), Full Page(CPV) Page Peel(CPV), Video(CPV).
Site Requirements - No particular requirements.
Comment - They also serve adult, casino ads, min payout 10 Euros, paypal supported.

Advertising
Alexa Rank - 1958.
Ads Served - Banner(CPM), Full Page(CPV).
Site Requirements - Site in English, 50k+ monthly hits, USA and CANADA traffic preferred more.
Comment - Best CPM ad networlk in the industry, hard to get in.

Hydra
Alexa Rank - 2103.
Ads Served - Banner(CPM), Full Page(CPV).
Site Requirements - You have to register, after assessment they will get back to you.
Comment - Famous CPM ad network, min payout $50, hard to get in.

Bidvertiser
Alexa Rank - 2848.
Ads Served - Text(CPC), Banner(CPC), Ebay(CPV).
Site Requirements - Site in English, USA traffic preferred.
Comment - One of the best CPC ad network, easy to register, good contextual ads.

Clickbooth
Alexa Rank - 3572.
Ads Served - Text(CPA), Banner(CPA).
Site Requirements - No particular requirement.
Comment - You get paid only if product is sold or particular action is performed.

Chitika
Alexa Rank - 4141.
Ads Served - Text(CPA), Banner(CPA).
Site Requirements - No particular requirements.
Comment - Search targeted advertisements .

Azoogleads
Alexa Rank - 4262.
Ads Served - Text(CPA), Banner(CPA).
Site Requirements - No particular requirements.
Comment - Best CPA ad network.

Neverblue
Alexa Rank - 4398.
Ads Served - Text(CPA), Banner(CPA).
Site Requirements - No particular requirements.
Comment - you can register even without a website, Phone verification required.

Kontera
Alexa Rank - 4549.
Ads Served - Inline Text(CPC), Inline Banner(CPC),Inline Video(CPV).
Site Requirements - Site language must be English.
Comment - All ads are Inline only.

Fpctraffic
Alexa Rank - 6373.
Ads Served - Text(CPC), Banner(CPM), Pop Under(CPM), Full Page(CPV).
Site Requirements - No particular requirements.
Comment - Mostly adult ads are shown, min payout $50.

Valueclickmedia
Alexa Rank - 7126.
Ads Served - Banner(CPC & CPM), Pop Under(CPV), Full Page(CPV).
Site Requirements - Site in English, 3000+ monthly hits.
Comment - Min payout $25.

Casalemedia
Alexa Rank - 9066.
Ads Served - Banner(CPM).
Site Requirements - Site in English, 10000+ monthly unique hits.
Comment - One of the best CPM based ad network, 70% of revenue is given to publisher, min payout $25.

Burst
Alexa Rank - 11852.
Ads Served - Banner(CPM), Full Page(CPV).
Site Requirements - Site in English, 25000+ monthly hits.
Comment - Again one of the best CPM ad network, hard to get in.

Axill
Alexa Rank - 14628.
Ads Served - Text(CPA), Banner(CPM & CPA).
Site Requirements - No particular site requirements .
Comment - Easy to register.

Adtoll
Alexa Rank - 18473.
Ads Served - Inline Text(CPC), Text(CPC), Banner(CPC & CPM), Pop Under(CPV), Pop UP (CPV), Full Page(CPV), Peel Away(CPC), Video(CPV), Button(CPC).
Site Requirements - No particular site requirement
Comment - All types of ads you can imagine are supported.

Motiveinteractive
Alexa Rank - 26615.
Ads Served - Text(CPA), Banner(CPA).
Site Requirements - No particular site requirements.
Comment - Earnings are strictly per action.

Xapads
Alexa Rank - 42723.
Ads Served - Text(CPC), Banner(CPC & CPM), Pop Under(CPV), Popup(CPV), Full Page(CPV).
Site Requirements - Site in English.
Comment - Adult ads, Incentive clicking allowed, minimum payout $50.

Glammedia
Alexa Rank - 44202.
Ads Served - Text(CPC), Banner(CPC & CPM), Full Page(CPV).
Site Requirements - 100K+ monthly hits, 3 months minimum blogging.
Comment - Only for fashion and related sites, blogs.

Hooqy
Alexa Rank - 46136.
Ads Served - Inline Text(CPC), Text(CPC), Banner(CPC & CPM), Full Page(CPV).
Site Requirements - Site in English, 25000+ monthly hits.
Comment - Easy to register, min payout $50.

Adversal
Alexa Rank - 65360.
Ads Served - Text(CPC), Banner(CPC & CPM).
Site Requirements - Site in English.
Comment - Min payout $20.

Note:
The sorting is done using alexa page rank and not by the number of people using them.

CPC - Cost Per Click
CPM - Cost per Thousand Impressions
CPA - Cost Per Action
CPV - Cost Per View

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How to Submit Your Blog/Website to Google, Yahoo, Bing

Blogging is the latest passion for youth presently. Many young people were turning their careers as bloggers. Its possible because of the Globalization. Many new and young bloggers were evolving every year. According to recent Technorati analysis over 1.8 million blogs were been registering every year. These statistics tell us the power of Blogging.

Blogging is not such a easy task. You need to be patient, need to write act smart, need to be updated, need to perform SEO, need to work on building relationship, and many more tasks.

This is the article, that Im writing for sake of serious bloggers who are turning their career as full time dedicated bloggers.

Submit Your Website/Blog to Google Search Engine

Google the leading search engine and is considered as the major source to drive traffic to one’s website. The most concentrated Search Engine by any of the SEO experts. Submitting a blog/website to Google is the major task for any website to get indexed. If your website is indexed in Google, your work is done more than 60%.

Here are the Steps that you should follow for submitting your website to Google

1. Sign into Google Webmaster Tools.
2. Click on Add a Site and enter the URL of your website or blog you wish to add and then click on continue.
3. Verify your site by using meta tag by placing that in  section of in your template or else by using the HTML file by placing it in root folder of you website.
4. Finally, Click on verify after finishing the process.

Submit Your Website/Blog to Yahoo Search Engine

Yahoo holds the next place after Google, in terms of efficiency and traffic. Yahoo is a best search engine with yahoo personally sponsoring many tools. Yahoo occupies 21% of Search Engine Share after Google.

Here are the Steps that you should follow for submitting your website to Yahoo.

1. Yahoo Sitemaps is usefed if you want your blog/website to get indexed completely in Yahoo Search Engine.
2. Submit your blog/website to Yahoo Sitemaps.
3. For Submitting, Click on submit you Website or Webpage option and enter your blog/website address.
4. And then submit your site feed, for submitting Click on Submit Site Feed and enter the sitemap of your blog.
5. Finally add the feed of your Blog.

Submit Your Website/Blog to Bing Search Engine

Bing a search engine from Microsoft which is currently buzzing allover the world. This is launched by Microsoft in order to give Google the great competition, by offering more features that Google. Most of the websites/blogs were already indexed into Bing, as the Bing.com is using the database of MSN, though you can still submit your website to get indexed.

Here are the Steps that you should follow for submitting your website to Yahoo.

1. Submit your blog/website to Bing here. 
2. After that, enter your website details (your website/blog’s address) and the fill the CAPTCHA correctly and then click on submit. 
3. Then a notification will be given to you. If you are interested to Submit another website, click on submit another website else click on return to bing.

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XML sitemaps inform search engines about the pages available to crawl on your website. Search engines find new pages by navigating links on websites. Sitemaps enhance search engine crawling by providing explicit information about the specific urls on your website. Sitemaps don’t ensure that your webpages will be indexed, but they typically increase both the chance and speed of indexing.

If you have fresh content on your blog or website, it is prudent to make sure the search engines know about this to get the content indexed as soon as possible. One way this is done is by pinging your xml sitemap. Although there are many search engines and services you can ping your sitemap to, make sure you concentrate on the big 3: Google, Bing, and Yahoo.

So, how do you automatically ping your updated sitemap each time your website updates? Read How to Ping Your Sitemap to Google, Yahoo, and Bing to find out:

If you’ve got an XML sitemap for your website, you can alert the search engines to updates by typing a specially formatted URL into your browser.

Ping Bing

Bing is Microsoft’s newly branded and revamped search engine that is gaining popularity and market share every day since its recent launch. It’s well known that Bing takes a long time to initially index a website, so ping their service when you launch a website and every time you update content.

Their ping service is http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=[your sitemap web address].

In my case this would be: http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://www.bluefalconmarketing.com/sitemap.xml

You can manually ping Bing by entering the above url in a web browser and pressing enter. I prefer to automate this process, by entering the url into a ping list in WordPress. WordPress will then automatically ping Bing each time I update or submit a new post.

Ping Google

Google is the dominant search engine, and you will want to inform when something new or changes appears on your site.

The ping url is http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://www.example.com/sitemap-file.xml, in my case it would be http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://www.bluefalconmarketing.com/sitemap.xml

Again, you can manually visit this url to ping Google, or add the url to an automated pinging service if this is supported by your website development platform.

Ping Yahoo

Yahoo’s ping service lets you notify them anytime your site changes so their index can be updated quicker. Their ping url is http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml, in my case this would be http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=http://www.bluefalconmarketing/sitemap.xml

You can automatically submit your updated site map using a pinging service or manually entering the above url.

If you don’t have an xml sitemap yet, you can use a free xml sitemap generator to get you started.




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Step-By-Step Guide of Making Money from Google Adsense in Pakistan

Our blog readers are constantly demanding for a “Step-By-Step Guide of Making Money from Google Adsense in Pakistan” so we finally decided to write this post tohelp everyone earn and make some extra money online in Pakistan or anywhere else for that matter.

Let us clarify one point very openly that the Google Adsense is not a Get-Rich-Quick scheme and its not that easy to make money through it. You need persistency, patience, and real smart work to make some reasonable income through Google Adsense. Please take it as a business which grows gradually, it’s not going to happen overnight you’ll have to learn it step by step. So, here is the step one.

Step 1: Get one new Google Adsense Account without having a website or blog (Tested and Verified Method)

Although, this step is already explained in details in our previous post, but it is again explained here briefly : -

a. Sign up for a new gmail account. (Ignore this step if you already have one with no adsense enabled)

b. Sign up with Flixya. (Using the same gmail account which you have created earlier for this purpose)

As soon as you start sign up with Flixya, it will ask you:

Do you already have a Google Adsense account?

Click: No

As soon as you click No, It will show the option to sign up for Google Adsense using the same gmail account. Now click on “Sign up of Adsense” button to continue sign up.

Now you will receive two email notifications in your gmail account, one from Flixya for continuing signup and second from Google Adsense for sign up. Completely fill your Google Adsense signup form with accurate information and make sure the name and address should be the same as it appears on your CNIC and other official documents. Also complete the signup for Flixya.

Update: You need to add some original content (i.e pictures, articles, videos etc) to your Flixya account otherwise Google Adsense will not approve your application due to no content.

It is a proven and tested method to get your Google Adsense ID without having a blog or website. Now, you will have to wait for adsense account approval it will take 4-5 days to get it approved.

Step 2: Make your first blog using Blogger.com

Blogs are the online diaries or journals which anyone can use to publish his/her own choice content. The content can be any article, picture, videos etc. There are several platform where you can make your own blog but Blogger.com provides the simplest method to create a blog and it is most commonly used for this purpose.

By the time you get your Google Adsense ID’s approval, you can make your plan about creating a profitable blog. Remember, if you are not planning it means you are planning to fail. Instead of creating a blog on the topic which you are not familiar with, create a blog for which you are passionate about. For example if you are good in cooking, you should make your blog about cooking tips and if you are passionate about mobile phones then you should create a blog about latest mobile phones. We can discuss this in our upcoming posts, we are sticking to step two i.e making your first blog.

a. Sign up for Blogger.com. (Make sure you are signed in with the same gmail account)

b. Naming your blog (Tip: Choose an interesting and catchy name which your target readers can remember and recall.)

c. Choosing right blog URL. (Tip: It can be either your name or a combination of few key words)

d. Choosing right template for the blog. (Tip: Just start of with any template because you can easily change it later)

Once you are done with creating your first blog, you start posting your new content i.e. articles, videos, photos etc without worrying about making money out of it. Make sure that you write your own content or you mention the source from where you get that content. Original content appears fast on search result as compare to duplicate content.

Here is a list of blogs which are using blogger.com which can be off help to you.

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  www.skm-sports.blogspot.com
• www.keywordsinsider.blogspot.com
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  www.karachiobserver.blogspot.com
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  www.buzzpick.blogspot.com
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  www.promisingpakistan.blogspot.com
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  www.ipllivecoverage.blogspot.com

Step 3: Integrate your Adsense Account with your Blog

It is not a good idea to display google ads on newly established blog, so make sure you have enough content on your blog which is good to attract readers. Once your Google Adsense account is approved, you can integrate it in your blog to display relevant ads by Google. This is how you can integrate your adsense account with your blog: -

1. Click on the Monetize button (Make sure you are logged in to your blogger account and you have selected the blog where you can see the Monetize button)

2. Choose Display ads in my sidebar and posts (and click next)

3. Enter your PIN (i.e. gmail id and postal code or last 5 digits of phone numbers)

Note:- You can also integrate your adsense account with blogger through Layout >> Page Element >> Add a Gadget >> Adsense and again you can mention your email and PIN to get new ads by Google in your blog.

Step 4: More Traffic Means More Adsense Income

Traffic through search engines (Organic Traffic) are the most likely source of generating adsense revenue. If your blog appears on the top ten search result of a particular keyword, then it will become a continuous source of residual income from Google Adsense. But it will take a lot of effort and continuous improvement in your blog to appear on the top search results.

There are various ways to generate traffic on your blog, we suggest the following articles to help you understand the traffic generation techniques.

Top 20 Proven Tips to Increase Blog Traffic

You can simply start sharing your posts on you facebook and other social networking websites to get started.

Step 5: Google Adsense Milestones and How to achieve them

a. Earning first $10: Google Adsense issues PIN Code once you have $10 in your account. As soon as you have earned $10 in your Google Adsense account. Google Adsense will send Adsense PIN Code to your mailing address. You can enter PIN Code and remove payment hold from your Adsense Account.

b. Earning first $100. Google Adsense issues payment when your account balance reaches $100 or more. For example if you have completed your $100 in the month of January then you will receive your payment at the end of February. For detail you can check your adsense account.

c. Receiving your first Payment. The best part about Google Adsense program is its payment method via Western Union Money Transfer. You can receive payment from any Western Union Money Transfer Outlet on the same day when you get your payment status from Google Adsense.

You can use same Google Adsense Id for multiple blogs or other revenue sharing websites, forums etc. As already explained in our previous posts.

This is just the beginning, we are hopeful that you’ll learn new techniques of blogging with us so that you can get your own domain for blogging and utilize all the experience you got from using Blogger.com’s blogs.

We hope that above information will be useful to you, if you have any confusion please feel free to comment on this post, we will reply ASAP.

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Leaked Google Documents Reveal How Much Big Brands Spend on Search Ads

Ad Age has obtained an internal Google document that highlights some of the biggest AdWords buyers for the month of June 2010, offering insight into how big brands are using Google and how much they are spending.

According to the documents, the biggest buyers of AdWords in June included AT&T Mobility, Amazon, eBay and BP. Although most of those companies are frequent big Google spenders, BP was a newcomer to the list, spending $3.59 million on search ads in the wake of the gulf oil spill (compared to just $57,000 in the two months prior).

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Top Spenders

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The top spender in June, AT&T Mobility, spent $8.08 million on search ads to coincide with the release of theiPhone 4. According to Ad Age, AT&T’s the third-largest U.S. advertiser overall, so its Google spending is not a big surprise.

Other companies that made up the top 10 include:

• Apollo Group – You know them as The University of Phoenix and they spent $6.67 million in June 2010
• Expedia – $5.95 million
• Amazon – $5.85 million
• eBay – $4.25 million
• Hotels.com – $3.30 million
• JC Penney – $2.46 million — we’ll admit, this one surprises us
• Living Social – $2.29 million
• ADT Security – $2.19 million

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Why Brands Buy Google Ads

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The data shows us that for big brands, a heavy investment in Google is usually tied to revenue that comes directly from search traffic (as in the case of Amazon, eBay, Expedia, Hotels.com) or in instances where companies are trying to build awareness (AT&T) or weather a PR crisis (BP).

It’s also interesting to note some of the brands that aren’t on the list. The documents obtained by Ad Age indicate that companies like GM, Disney and BMW spent less than $500,000 on Google ads in June. Even Apple spent just less than $1 million on Google ads, despite its high-profile launch of the iPhone 4.

However, we also think it is possible that some big brands are spending money on search, but not directly with Google. For instance, although Ad Age cites Walt Disney as one of the companies that spent less than $500,000 on Google ads in June, the movie studio released Toy Story 3 that month, a film supported by a massive ad campaign. The film has gone on to gross more than $1 billion worldwide, making it one of the most successful animated films of all-time. It seems odd that Disney would spend only $500,000 on search terms for its big summer release.

What seems more likely, however, is that Disney purchased advertising through companies like Fandango or MovieTickets.com and those companies have their own arrangements with Google. In other words, when it comes to evaluating search spending, don’t count out the potential middle men.

This also makes sense when taking a big-picture approach to Google’s own revenue. The top 10 brands only accounted for 5% of U.S. revenues for the month.

Google is a big target for advertisers because of its strength in search and because of its ubiquity across devices. We do wonder if ad buys will shift to other outlets, like say, Facebook, as users spend more and more time on those networks

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Cisco Making A Run For Skype

Cisco has made an offer to acquire Skype before they complete their IPO process, says one of our more reliable sources. We have not been able to confirm this rumor one way or another via other sources, which isn’t surprising. A company in lock down during the IPO process is usually even more tight lipped than normal.

But if true this would be one very big acquisition. Skype insiders are hoping for an out of the gate valuation of $5 billion or so, we’ve heard. Presumably Cisco would have to bidding in that range to make it interesting.

Google was also rumored to be sniffing around Skype, but antitrust concerns may have persuaded them not to make an actual offer.

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