What are the best Google adsense alternatives?

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Selling something of your own that is related to the content that you provide.

You'll get a bigger cut and have more control.

If you connect your audience to relevant affiliate offers it has higher payback and is a better user experience. You should be able to get $200 eCPM+ with any level of engaged user (western desktop traffic), something your unlikely to get even close to on Adsense.
http://www.media.net/

I wouldn't say its better, but I think I rake in an average of about $115 a year from running ads on my site. Of course, it all depends on your traffic, and they only payout in $100 increments.

I would add that they have an approval process, unlike AdSense that allows anybody to sign up and put ads on their site.
Affiliate offers.

CJ, LinkShare, Share-a-Sale.

PPC is the easiest way to add monetization to your site and the least lucrative.

Ezoic.com and taboola.com for the good cpm rates.
Header bidding. You sign up with a number of popular bidders (OpenX, AppNexus, Rubicon, AOL, Criteo, Sovrn, etc), and they all bid against each other in real-time. You then relay that bid to AdX/AdSense, and Google attempts to outbid that offer. Then, you display the ad from the highest bidder. This happens for every single ad impression.

Overall, this usually provides a 30%+ increase in revenue over running just AdSense.