I’m sure many of you out there use Google Adsense on your blog to make a few extra bucks each month. Posting Adsense ads is very easy to do, and if you have good traffic to your blog, you can really make some good cash.
Of course you need to make sure you have a proper balance between the amount of ads on your blog and the amount of content. In other words, don’t go crazy and post every one of these to your blog as soon as you read this 
As well, give some real thought to if you need to serve ads on your site at all. If you are selling a product or service from your blog, do you really want to chance losing your visitors (customers) for a nickel a click to Adsense ads? Or do you want those folks to actually learn more about – and buy – your product? There is a fine line between ‘monetizing your blog’ and making a few bucks from Adsense clicks because your content sucks and it’s not properly selling your wares..
With that said, for those of you looking to compliment (or possibly replace) your Adsense ads, here is a list of 12 Adsense alternatives:
1. Adbrite
One of the best current Adsense competitors. Adbrite gives you a good amount of flexibility with creative sizes. Just place a small snippet of HTML on your site, and they handle serving, scheduling, and the rest.
2. Clicksor
“Clicksor offers webmasters the opportunity to earn more income by simply underlining a selection of clickable text (inline text links) or displaying targeted contextual ads (various sizes of banners) on their websites or blogs.” Very easy to join and set up. Plus Clicksor has an industry leadeing 85% share rate on ad revenue.
3. Yahoo Publisher Network
This is Yahoo’s version of Adsense.
4. Microsoft pubCenter
Still in Beta testing, this is Microsoft’s new Adsense competitor product.
5. Infolinks
Info Links specializes in in-text advertising that places automatic contextual links within your actual blog pages.
6. AdToll
Adtoll allows you to sell advertising space on your blog. If you have a very high traffic blog, this may be an option for you.
7. Kontera
Very similar to InfoLinks within some neat plug-ins for CMS based blogs (Drupal, Wordpress, etc).
8. eClickZ
Another Adsense type network featuring contextual matching ads and an XML search feed product.
9. Exit Junction
Exit Junction serves contextual exit pops to your visitors. Use this one with caution or you may alienate your regular readers.
10. Widgetbucks
Place their widgets on your blog and earn from click-throughs.
11. Bidvertiser
Simply display the BidVertiser text ads on your website and let advertisers bid against each other. You get paid a percentage of every click, and the ads are contextual to match the theme of your site.
12. Chitika
Chitika allows you to display targeted products based on what people searched for to get to your page and you get paid for clicks. It is a perfect compliment to Adsense or Adbrite ads.
Now, if you really want to dive into this topic, check out Sun Seven’s Hubpage with a huge list of Google Alternatives.
And of course, I would love to hear from you!
What Adsense alternatives are you using successfully (or not so successfully)?
