A List of Top Advertising Networks

A List of Top Advertising Networks

Here are some advertising networks that you may want to use to monetize your website traffic. These are from the more popular ones out there. I have followed the posting with a larger comprehensive list of ad networks.

Kontera ContentLink

Kontera will convert some words on your web page into click-able links. They will then pay you every time someone clicks on a link. Each link has a double underline, and every time someone hovers their mouse cursor on top of the link a small popup ad shows up showing an ad. You don’t earn anything for these mini-ad displays and you only get paid if and when the user clicks on the mini ad or the link.

Text Link Ads

This network works very well only after your site has a certain minimum amount of daily traffic. If you get around 100 to 200 page views daily, this will probably not work well for you, since they have a “featured sites” page listing that lists the top performing sites only. I’ve tried to list my site on them but haven’t had any luck so far.

Google Adsense Ads

If you don’t know what Adsense is then you need to do some serious catching up. When site owners get accepted by Google Adsense, they place ads in their pages that can be of several different sizes - as text only ads, graphic ads and rich multimedia or a combination of them. The Google system studies the content of your web page and accordingly displays matching “contextual ads” on your pages. This is the best way for content developers with any amount of traffic to get started.

Bidvertiser

Bidvertiser is a Google Adsense type contextual advertising network. The only difference is that their payout ceiling is as low as $10, so you don’t need to reach the $100 mark until your payment is sent to you - as with Google Adsense. This works very well for the really small content creators specially in third world countries.

Azoogle Ads

Azoogle is one of the largest and best performing affiliate advertising networks globally. They pay you on a CPA (Cost-Per-Action) basis - where the action can be anything from filling up a web form, purchasing something, participating in a survey etc. Merchants who want to build a large network of affiliate websites, sign up with them and specify their action required and offering, which is listed in their directory. Then content publishers browse Azoogle directory and choose the merchants ads that they wish to display. The payout per action can be anywhere between $1 to $100. Recently Google has entered the Affiliate Network space with their Adsense Referral scheme, which looks pretty good.

Auction Ads

This is basically a middle man that pays you for Ebay referral traffic - just the same way as Ebay would pay you if you signed up directly with them. The advantage is that because they are so huge, they can offer you a larger commission. Currently they pay you 100% of the referral earnings. I also like their customizable ad boxes. The only problem here is that your site needs to have a lot of traffic to generate any money at all.

ReviewMe

This one is for bloggers. If you blog and have about 100+ regular readers then you should list yourself in the ReviewMe directory. This is basically a system that facilitates paid reviews on blogs… so you can get paid for writing a review for a website! The amount you get paid depends on traffic and topic. Usually ReviewMe analyzes your site and sets the price, but you can change that if you like. ReviewMe takes a cut of the money you earn, and the only requirement is that the review be at least 200 words.

FeedBurner Network

If you have feeds going out to a large number of feed readers then you may want to try signing up with the Feedburner Network. They pay on a CPM basis with CPM rates going up as high as $10. They also allow regular web page CPM advertising other than in-feed ads.

Adbrite Ads

Adbrite is another contextual ad network, that pays on a CPM or CPC basis.