AdSense Alternative

AdSense is popular with people trying to make money online because it pays well. It pays well because the ads are contextual. There are several reasons why you may not be accepted into an AdSense program or your account might have been suspended. So, you might be looking for AdSense alternatives. Also, Google has apparently changed one of it’s terms and conditions on what other ads can be displayed along with AdSense. In the past, it wasn’t allowed to mix other contextual ads. But apparently now that’s allowed as long as there is no confusion. So, this is yet another reason why you want to look for an AdSense alternative that’s contextual.

I have been made aware of Oxado, a contextual ad company. Here are some reasons for considering this company

1. It’s European. If you have a good amount of non-US traffic, especially if it’s European bound, then this can increase the revenue
2. It’s European. Yeah, I know I am repeating. But this is because of the currency rates. Yeah, the dollar is picking up, but hae, it’s no where near the levels when EURO was first introduced.

One interesting thing you would note with Oxado, unlike other ad networks is that they give hourly break up of the statistics! And better, it’s real-time even for publishers. So, check out Oxado and get yourself a online salary raise!

Is Making Money Online For Me?

Yes, you may have heard that some people are making a lot of money online. Well, that’s one of the things that’s common between online and offline (or real-world or brick-and-mortar however you want to call it). Some people can make a lot of money, while others reasonable and many more barely or just enough. So, it’s not that jumping on to the online gives an edge all of a sudden. It does open up some new avenues that are not possible otherwise or suit one’s personality.

Say you are spending no more than 1hr a day and managed to make less than $200 a month. That’s $2,400 a year. But also say you have $100K in savings that you invest in stock, mutual funds and CDs. By spending the same 1yr constantly updating your knowledge on the stock market, and buying and selling the stock at the right times (which is a big if, but one thing I learned is that only if you constantly follow the market you can make better decisions even if they are wrong sometimes), you have the potential to increase your income a lot more. One key difference is, with financial investments, there is a potential to lose your base money itself, no denial. But you could lose a whole lot by not following the markets at all and just putting all that money either in just a savings/cd or putting it in a mutual fund and not tracking it’s performance.

So, unless you see a progressive and higher return on your time investment with online ventures, don’t keep wasting too much time on it. As much as the thought that you can rake in big profits while you are basking on a beach in some beautiful resort might be very tempting, it’s not as simple and easy. But most importantly, in pursuing this dream, make sure you don’t lose money in other areas. The net profit could be negative!

Google AdSense Opposites Algorithm

In life pretty much everyone either believe or not believe in something. Like God, honesty, government etc. So, when nothing is known about a person, why not just display ads of both types of beliefs?

Well, that’s what I got recently. Look at the following image of Google AdSense I captured. It has two ads, one saying that the affiliate programs rock and the other asking to avoid affiliate programs.

So, if you happened to read these ads, you are right away sold to one of them, isn’t it? .

Yahoooooo! LinkShare and Overstock worked!

Earlier in my What’s The Big Deal With Accepting Into Affiliate Programs? post I mentioned how I didn’t get accepted by Overstock.com because I used an existing unrelated site. I still went ahead and designed my new website with Overstock data feeds inspite of the initial rejection.

I managed to design it well enough that I eventually got accepted into the program by registering to it through LinkShare.

I had been a member of LinkShare for more than a year but never really made any money. That is till prior to end of last month. My first commission from Linkshare happened by selling an Overstock product through this newly designed website! Yahooooooo!

I have been successful with Amazon affiliate program netting me more than $250 a month. And wasn’t sure if I would make any money through LinkShare and also Overstock. One thing I can say is that it really depends on the effort put in by the affiliates. Don’t expect to just sign up and start making money. The reason why I didn’t make any money for about an year with LinkShare is because I didn’t bother to do much with it as I have been concentrating on Amazon program. Now that I managed to get $5.00+ from a single sale with Overstock, I plan to spend extra time on this as well.