This is the second part of the post “10 Advertising Networks to Make Money from Website“. Advertising networks are companies that connect publishers with businesses that wish to advertise on websites. The right advertising network can help you generate substantial revenue from your website.

Placing Ads on websites or blogs is one of the most widely used methods for making money from your website or blog. The amount of money you make depends on many factors including popularity of your website, the number of visitors and your niche.

There are several advertising networks you can use to find advertisers for your website. Most ad networks are completely free to join as long as your website meets the publisher guidelines. However ad networks typically charge a commission on any revenue generated from your ads.

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Revenue Model:

The following revenue models are used by most of the Advertising Networks listed here to calculate your earning from Ad placement on your site.

CPC: Cost per click

CPM: Cost per 1000 Ad impression

CPA: Cost per action including sale, registration or form completion.

10. Microsoft Pub Centre: (CPM, CPC)

Microsoft Advertising pubCenter provides publishers access to one of the largest networks of advertisers on the Internet. It empowers Web site publishers and Windows Phone 7 application developers to make money from ad placements. When users click on these ads, the website publisher earns money from the advertiser, via Microsoft. It offers complete control for you over how the ads look and feel.

Payments are issued either when ads are clicked or for the number of gross impressions the ads generate on the publisher’s site. There are no restrictions on how big or small a Web site can be, but publishers meet the pubCenter guidelines in order to participate.

11. Buy Sell Ads  (BSA)

BuySellAds.com is an excellent option for blogs. It is a direct banner selling service. The system works by adding your site and then adding advert zones to that website making it easier for advertisers to find you. Then you sell those ads for profit. It makes it easy to display ads on your blog by providing you with the HTML code to insert into your template in order for ads to display on your blog once space is purchased by advertisers.

12. Casale Media

In order to join Casale Media, your website should meet the traffic requirement of 10,000 distinct visitors monthly. They boast a 70% payout to publishers which is one of the highest payouts in the industry. It is a large well-respected advertising network.

13. Tribal Fusion

Tribal Fusion only work with high quality publishers that host highly targeted content, professional site design, and desirable audience compositions. Requirements include a minimum of 500,000 unique users per month. In addition cost per 1000 impression (CPM) advertising on their sites, they also offer in-text advertising, lead generation, performance marketing, and high impact branding campaigns.

14. Ad Bull

Make Money with AdBull

AdBull offer similar CPC and CPM revenue models to most other sites in this list. It is however unique in the way ads are served. Their patented cursor ad unit is a unique method whereby the ad is displayed near the user’s cursor for about 10 seconds after which it fades away. After this the ad will not appear again for 12 hours for that unique visitor. This is a unique way to attract visitor’s attention to your ads without substantial interference with your content.

There are no minimum requirements for publishers and it is easy for new sites with less traffic to get accepted.

15. Kontera (CPC)

Kontera is a text link advertising program for monetising your website. It is quite different to Adsense. Ads appear as text links within the existing content of your website or blog. Ads appear as highlighted keywords or links within your content that display a small window with the ad preview when you hover over the links. The options are limited to content link based ads only.

Some Internet Marketers and SEO experts argue that text link based ads like Kontera can devalue your content on Google. Other negative points are that it can increase page load times and can interfere with your content.

16. InfoLinks (CPC)

Infolinks is another form of in-text advertising program like Konterra. Infolinks have received good review by many site owners and bloggers compared to its competitors. Publishers have reported of better earnings than Konterra although not as high as Adsense. It is a good monetising option for new web publishers and can be used along with other advertising programs like Google Adsense and Chitika. They offer one the highest revenue share in the industry giving publishers 70% of the revenue earned from the ads displayed on your site.

17. Widget Bucks (CPC)

Widgetbucks create contextual ad widgets on your website and revenue is based on CPC model i.e. you get paid when readers’ clicks on the ads. There are no minimum requirements.You also get $25 free to join.

There are only two options available presently i.e. normal ads and pop under ads. Normal ads ex. banner ads display only for visitors form USA and / or Canada and some very few other countries. It may not be that beneficial if most of your visitors do not come from these countries.

Technically you are allowed to run Widgetbucks together with Adsense on the same website. However I have come across a blog post that mentions otherwise.

18. Text Link ads

Text-Link-Ads is different to most other ad networks featured in this list. In many ways it is works like a link building service. It acts as a brokering service between websites particularly blogs and advertisers that wish to increase traffic by purchasing text links on other sites. Site owners can choose where to place the links e.g. sidebar, homepage or site wide and the price is based accordingly. There are many websites trying to obtain back-links so it is easy to sell all your ad space.

Publishers receive 50% of all advertising revenue and get paid on the first of each month. You have complete control over what text link ads appear on your website and where. Text Link Ads can be run alongside other ad networks. Be careful however as Buying or selling links that pass PageRank can be sees as violation of Google’s guidelines and can negatively impact a site’s ranking in search results. Some websites have reported loss of traffic from Google as a result of using similar text brokering services although there are conflicting reports. I personally cannot verify this as the risk is too much for me to take.

19. Commission Junction (CPA)

Commission Junction, acquired by ValueClick in 2003, is one of the largest affiliate marketing channels on the Internet. They work with some of the bigger brands which is beneficial for publishers as they can promote products that are reliable and keep their websites trustworthy. There are many types of links for the affiliates: various banners, text links, product links, and search boxes. I have however come across some negative reviews recently with regards to payment. Many publishers have reported loss in earnings and payment conflicts. You can follow this link to read user reviews for Commission Junction.

20. LinkShare (CPA)

LinkShare is primarily an Affiliate Marketing and Lead Generation service for Publishers. A Publisher displays ads, text links, or product links from an Advertiser in return for a commission when a sale is made or when a lead is acquired. It can be used by established websites as well as new blogs that are just beginning to attract an audience. The sale can also be tied to a specific action such as filling out a form or downloading a trial.

LinkShare has partnererd with well-known brands such as Apple, Dell and Wal-Mart. As a member of LinkShare’s affiliate network, you have the ability to promote products from any one of these brands.

Conclusion:

Discussed above are only some of the advertising networks that allow you to make money from your website or blog by serving ads. In addition to finding advertisers, they also offer a full delivery platform to serve the ads including a dashboard from where you can access statistics, monitor or customise the ads units and in some cases approve or reject ads that are displayed.

The author K.Singh is a London based Internet Consultant with over 10 years of experience working with established multi national businesses as well as SME’s.  He is an expert in  Web Design, Internet Marketing, E-Commerce, Joomla and Search engine Optimisation.