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Ask HN: What are the best alternatives to Google AdSense?

12 points by JayNeely ↗ HN
AdSense's main appeal seems to be that its easy, automatic, usually-relevant text advertising for virtually any market.

Are there good alternatives? Better at providing relevant ads? Higher quality advertisers? Less commoditized, better paying?

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solost
It depends a lot on how you want to implement advertising on your site. I think running affiliate links via CJ is a much better way to go, especially if you have the ability to incorporate them into your site tactically so that they are value adds and not distractions. Keep your eye out for lead gen programs as well, they often pay on sign ups as well as sales meaning they can have significant returns.
Athtar
Just saw this post today actually: http://www.ginktage.com/2010/12/top-2-google-adsense-alterna...

This is what they recommend:

1. Lakequincy.com - Lake Quincy Media provides a network of publishers targeted exclusively to Microsoft developers. It represents some community sites like EggHeadCafe, Microsoft ASP.NET and ASPAlliance.com.

2. TheLoungeNet - TheLoungeNet hosted by Zerk Media is another Advertising Network focussed on Microsoft Technologies.

cheae
I have tried many from Kontera to Chitika. IMO there is no good alternative(in terms of payment) for adsense yet.
askar
I completely agree to this...nothing comes as close to Adsense in terms of everything.
mootothemax
Adsense is great when you don't know any demographics about who your website audience is. Once you do know, however, you can make a hell of a lot more with targeted affiliate offers.
nl
I wrote this for my own use: http://demo.qontex.com/

It does contextual affiliate ads. I've found the returns are much better than adsense.