Now, if you are anything like Jeff Johnson, who had his AdSense accounts disabled back in 2004, it might be the best thing that ever happened to you. In Jeff’s case his ‘error’ was to have two accounts, one for him and one for his brother. However, as it turned out, once he was free from AdSense his online income exploded – so take it as a sign of things to come!

AdBrite – http://www.adbrite.com

This advertising network has been going since 2002 and is one of the biggest independent ad networks. It doesn’t have the contextual technology that Google has but you can choose the category you want to target and it will serve up ads based on that category. Obviously you need to use some common sense here as a website about gardening doesn’t need to have ads for forex trading! One problem some people might have is that they only pay out by cheque which is issued in USD.

LinkWorth – http://www.linkworth.com

If you have a site with good traffic and Google PageRank then you have the option of earning some good money with LinkWorth who specialize in link based advertising. Their advertisers want to place links on relevant websites to get traffic and boost their search engine rankings. As a publisher you have a wide range of options to make money from this site and it’s strongly recommended.

Amazon Associates – https://affiliate-program.amazon.com

Obviously it depends entirely on what sort of website you are running but many people have found that the Amazon Associates programme is even more profitable than AdSense under the right circumstances. Although Amazon only pays commission on products people have bought the great thing about Amazon is that people buy all kinds of products from it. So you might have a site about healthy dog food and link to some highly relevant dog food products on Amazon (another great thing about Amazon is the almost unlimited range of products they sell), this will make you a few dollars if you make a sale but often people end up buying books, DVD’s, computer games and all kinds of other things.

Amazon also have an option called Omakase which works a little bit like AdSense but it tries to automatically put relevant products infront of your customers based on the context of the page. It’s a little bit hit and miss at the moment though.

There are plenty of other alternatives like Bidvertiser and Kontera, but in our experience they don’t have enough advertisers to replace the income you might have been making on AdSense.

Do you think I’ve missed out any obvious AdSense alternatives? Let me know by leaving a comment in the form below.

If you sell 7 products then your commission goes up to 6% and as I found out today the commission is applied to the first 7 products too, for some reason I always thought you get 4% of the first 7 products and then 6% on the next 22 products and 6.5% on the next 100 products etc. I’m happy to be wrong in this case!

Another point to note is that this commission is reset each month so every month you start off on 4% and have to work your way back up to 7%. Oh yes, and the commission structure doesn’t apply to electronic goods, you earn a flat 4% regardless of how many you sell.

Phew, why do they insist on making it so complicated! Still, I’m chuffed to bits to see sales coming in from Amazon when I’m not even promoting my Amazon sites!