Adsense Alternative: ClickBank Contextual Advertising
Posted on January 5th, 2009 in Internet Marketing, Products Reviewed adsense, advertising, alternative to adsense, cbproAds, clickbank
Many webmasters use Google Adsense to augment the revenue from their sites, in fact there are many sites that only use Adsense to generate revenue. I have Adsense an almost all my sites, but I am becoming increasingly dissatisfied with it.
In case you’re not aware of how Adsense works, when one of your site visitors clicks on an Adsense ad you get paid. How much you get paid depends on a few different things.
1. KeyWord/Topic of the ad. For example an Adsense ad about “knitting” won’t pay you that much, probably no more than 20 cents. But an ad for ”Debt Consolidation” or “Health Insurance” could pay you as much as $4 or more for one click. It depends on what is “hot” in the keyword market.
2. Your visitor, who clicked on the ad, needs to spend a certain amount of time “viewing” it. I have not seen Google admit this anywhere, and a lot of people don’t know about it, but I have been able to figure it out for myself. Usually the time period is at least 20 seconds. So if they click and take a peek ad the ad, you’ll get paid less than if they actually looked the ad over and clicked on something within the ad.
3. Google Banner ads usually pay more than text link ads no matter the KeyWord, also not well known, but I believe it to be true.
And this is my main problem with Adsense, the secrecy. I mean why can’t we, the Adsense Publisher, know what the split is? Does google take 50% of what the advertiser paid or 80%, Google refuses to say, very annoying and not fair in my opinion.
The alternatives to Adsense are many. There are CPA/CPL banner ads of course, which I also use, in context ads, those double underlined words you see on some sites.
I am begining to use something called “ClickBank Contextual Ads” by CBPro.com. These are basically text ads for various ClickBank Products related to your niche or what your site or blog is about.
What I like about these ads is that when someone buys a product after clicking the ad youget paid a very nice commission, depending on the product you could make any where from $20 to $100. But there is a “catch”. With Adsense, all you need is for someone to click on the ad and you get paid. Of course the downside is they HAVE to buy the product, while with Adsense all thy HAVE to do is click on the ad.
But the difference in potential income is huge, from pennies to over $100. CBProADs also offer ClickBank Stores. These aren’t like the regular “ClickBank Malls” you see offered, where all they do is connect you to ClickBank’s RSS Feed. These are a bit more sophisticated, with real reviews of every product and they are customizable. Here is my store.
I haven’t had time to customize yet but I will get around to it this week probably, URLinkd.com has been taking up alot of my time this past week.
You can find out more about CBProAds here, its free to join, although I did upgrade, its really cheap, $39 bucks if I remember correctly to upgrade.
Anyway, check them out……..
Peace
