The idea of blogging without Google Adsense seems quite horrifying. Bloggers who have been blogging for quite some time now would apparently agree on the fact that Google Adsence is definitely the most popular and trustable way of earning money through blogging.
What if you can’t get your Google Adsense account approved or your account gets banned? Give up blogging? Well, you don’t have to!
Why and how you are better off without Google Adsense?
Google Adsense is definitely a trusted source of making money online. Also, you don’t have to manually change ads every now and then. But still there are various reasons that prove you are better off without it.
AdSense is basically a contextual advertising network. It only displays ads on the blog related to the page or topic. As an example, if you are running a technology blog and you are planning on advertising your technology business, you’d find yourself promoting your competitors site instead. This is because your competitor’s site has a contextual relationship with your site. You definitely wouldn’t want to lose your visitors or readers to your competitors for few cents or dollars.
In addition, the payout would be way too less than your expectations, since Google pays in cents and dollars (if you are lucky enough!).
The one and only good thing about Google Adsense is the continuous earning, which apparently makes you feel more secure in terms of your online business.
There are numerous other ways of making money online apart from so-called, so-popular Google Adsense. As a matter of fact, you can earn more than what you would earn through Google Adsense.
Here are certain ways of monetizing your blog without Google Adsense.
- Affiliate marketing
Affiliate marketing is one of the best way to earn few dollars per week or month. It can become a great source of money through blogging if used ethically. You need to promote or advertise the products or services of vendors and earn a handsome amount as a commission on every sale made through your website. Usually a vendor offers a commission rate ranging between 5% and 70% depending on ad budget of the vendor. High quality products with huge demand in the market are vigorously promoted through blogs and websites and have the potential to attract a huge commission.
How to use?
Monetizing your blog or website with affiliate marketing is quite simple. All you need to do is to sign up with the merchant and get a unique affiliate link, which you need to put in your ad display area to exhibit a related ad on your blog. Almost every big website offers affiliate marketing. Some of the best websites are ebay, amazon, dreamhost, and hostgator.
- Writing paid reviews
World Wide Web is all about content. Without content, no website has the ability to serve for long. Only content has the power to drive traffic to the website. A website can generate good quality content on its products and bring its products in the limelight. This is when writing paid reviews come into pay. These websites pay you to write reviews for their products. The main motive of doing so is to promote word of mouth marketing.
How to use:
You need to sign up with the website looking for paid reviews and start writing for them. These websites also provide a free product sample for you to test it and write about it. Websites to join to get paid for writing reviews are PayPerPost and ReviewMe.
- Make use of Google Adsense alternative
Google Adsense is not the only ad network, which pays you for displaying ads on your blog or website. There are many Adsense alternatives available on the internet such as Chitika and Adbrite. These ads network are way better than Google Adsense since these networks pay a good amount of revenue per click. Chitika is one of the leading merchandising companies that have highly competitive payouts for its customers. The publishers get paid somewhere between 5 to 20 dollars per click.
How to use:
You need to sign up with these networks to monetize your blog or website with Chitika and Adbrite. You will be given a unique link which can be used on your blog or website to display ads.
Who needs Google Adsense when you have these ways of monetizing your blog? Explore your possibilities and give your earning a powerful push!
Author Bio: – 
Elvin Roy is a blogger who loves to share everything about wordpress web development and new design technologies initiatives. She currently works as a senior writer for Wordsuccor. A Wordsuccor company provides you the best service of HTML to WordPress Conversion, WordPress Custom Plugin Development, Custom WordPress Themes and many more.
I am looking to implement something other than Google Adsense on my blog and this is the second straight article I’ve seen with Qadabra. I am not sure if I want to use Qadabra or Infolinks at this point but thank you for taking the time to write this article. If I end up going with Qadabra it will be because of this article!
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I need a system that allows me to sell my own banner space to vendors of my choice. Kind of like Adsense but I run everything and collect the revenue also. Any suggestions?
Hello Ashley,
Thanks for visit and read this article. I can suggest you some forums where you can sell not only banners even can sell paid articles and text links also. You can try forums.digitalpoint.com OR warriorforum.com if you did not try yet.
Really cool! Thank you for such a good blog!
Your welcome!