Ads-Click: http://www.ads-click.com - ICC, Route de Pré-Bois, 20, 1215 Geneva, Switzerland; 41-22-791-7380; Fax: 41-22-788-5851. Email: info@ads-click.com. Advertisers: advertiser@ads-click.com. Publishers: publisher@ad-clicks.com. Offers a tag cloud widget as well as regular text ad links, so you can buy ads via their network or make money featuring their ads on your website or blog. Has about 5,000 publishing partners. They serve up 5 billion pageviews per months.
Google AdSense: https://www.google.com/adsense - Feature Google AdWords text ads on your blog or website. You can customize the look and feel of the ads to complement the look and feel of your site.
Google AdWords: http://adwords.google.com - Advertise your website, blog, or web sales letter via small text ads on the results pages of Google searches as well as on other websites that feature Google AdSense ads. You pay only when people click on your ads, and you can limit how much money you spend by setting a limit per day or per month. Google has special relationships with About.com, Food Network, Business.com, HGTV, How Stuff Works, InfoSpace, Lycos, New York Times, and more. When working with Google AdWords, check out Placement Targeted ads, which allow you to dominate an ad space on a top 10 site you target.
- Go to Google.com and find keywords you want to target.
- Select the URLs from the top 10 websites that have Google ads at the top fold of the page. Ignore any top 10 websites that do not have Google ads above the fold.
- Go to Google AdWords and click on Placement Targeted ads.
- Write your ad(s).
- Select cost per thousand impressions for a lower cost that cost per click.
- Add the URLs for the websites you are targeting.
- Edit placements for specific pages on those top 10 sites so you are not paying for impressions on pages that don't apply to your topic.
Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions: http://advertising.microsoft.com - Includes Microsoft adCenter (http://adcenter.microsoft.com), which is like Google AdWords, and other digital ads opportunities on Live Search, MSN, Windows Live, and partner websites such as Facebook. As with Google and Yahoo!, you set what you want to pay per click as well as your monthly budget. As far as I can tell, Microsoft does not offer a publisher network or AdSense-like option.
7Search.com: http://www.7search.com - They advertise better returns than Google or Yahoo!, with low bid prices and a better ROI. Offers pay-per-text ads, referral programs, search boxes, and more.
Net Audio Ads: http://www.audioadguys.com - You can earn 25% of what the advertiser spends on PPP 5-second audio ads you serve on your websites as well as 5% of what the advertiser spends on PPP 5-second audio ads played on the websites of those you refer. Advertising began on February 1, 2008. For a great audio sales message on this program go to: http://www.audioadguys.com.
StumbleUpon Ads: http://www.stumbleupon.com/ads - Allows you the chance to create an advertising campaign to reach Stumblers for about 5 cents each. You can target by demographic, location, or category (500 such). Minimum start-up cost of $25 to reach 500 stumblers. Beware, though: They will be giving your site a thumbs up or down, so make sure your website is ready for primetime.
Text Link Ads: http://www.text-link-ads.com - TLA, 75 Broad Street, 23rd Floor, New York NY 10004; 877-480-9755. You can buy ads via this network or feature text ads on your website or blog. 40,000 websites feature their text ads. Alexa rank: 2,611 in March 2011.
Thundertext: http://www.thundertext.com - Niagara Media, 39 Witmer Road #402, Niagara Falls NY 14305; 646-722-6242; 800-975-1537. Email: info@thundertext.com. “In-text ad solutions allow you to maintain total control of your website. Our in-text ads appear only when your reader hovers their mouse pointer over a double-underlined key word or phrase. This non-intrusive approach allows you to maintain the look and feel of your site while still being able to monetize your site effectively. We find that click-through rates are very high because of our precise targeting of key phrases and the in-line location of the ads.”
To join their network as a publisher, you need a minimum of 50,000 unique monthly page views. If you have over 500,000 unique page views per month, you can have a private label program where you sell the in-text ads on your site. For more information as a publisher, go to: http://www.thundertext.com/?action=publishers_more.Yahoo! Publisher Network: http://publisher.yahoo.com - Like Google's AdSense program, this Yahoo! service allows you to earn money by displaying ads on your blog or website.
For advertisers, their “flagship products are part of the in-text group; innovative pop over advertising modules that reside inside a double underline in the text of a website. Once activated by a web visitor’s mouse-over, the ad comes to life and pops over the copy that the visitor is interested in.” For more information as an advertiser, go to: http://www.thundertext.com/?action=advertisers_more.
Yahoo! Search Marketing: http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com - 866-764-7650. This service places ads for your website, blog, or web sales letter on Yahoo! search results pages. You set how much you want to pay per click as well as a monthly budget. Sponsored ads also appear on partner websites such as USA Today, eBay, MTV.com, etc. as well as the Yahoo! Publisher Network.