Looking for the best Google AdSense alternatives to make more money?
You’re in a shock because your AdSense account has been banned!!
What do I do?
How can I monetize my blog and still make money online?
These questions do pop out of your head if your AdSense account has been banned.
I know, Google AdSense is the main source of income for lots of blogs and websites, but when you fall prey to such situations as given below, you’ve to find a way out.
So, what are the situations when you have to find some Google AdSense alternatives?
1. Google rejects your application of AdSense account
2. Your AdSense account has been disabled for some reason beyond your control
3. You want to earn more from your blog, and so want more monetization options other than Google AdSense.
4. Google AdSense $100 payout doesn’t suit you.
5. Your country doesn’t support Google AdSense.
The problem with Google AdSense alternatives is that the earning potential of these alternatives are nowhere when compared to Google AdSense. To earn a significant amount, the sites must have considerably high traffic.
You should also keep in mind that not all the networks mentioned below are contextual ad programs. For example, BuySellAds is a direct advertising platform while VigLinks turns your outbound links to affiliate links.
So, keeping in view all the factors, I’ve compiled a list of best Google AdSense alternatives ideal for both small and large websites.
I’ll not only give you a list of the alternatives to Google AdSense but also you’ll learn the criterias to meet in order to get listed as a published in those sites.
16 Best Alternatives to Google AdSense That Really Pay
Revenue Hits is one of the best Google AdSense alternatives right now. It’s based on the CPA model where the advertiser pays only when a visitor takes a specified action such as subscribing or registering to a free offer, etc.
Revenue Hits has a wide inventory of text and display ads that promotes performance-based offers. Finding targeted ads to your niche will help you increase your revenue even without Google AdSense.
The payment threshold of Revenue Hits is $50 lower than Google AdSense and they pay via PayPal, Payoneer and Wire Transfer.
Ayboll is a native form of advertising and is one of the alternative ways to make money from your blog. This type of ad can be placed anywhere in and around the content without distracting user experience. The best placement for Ayboll is at the top or after related posts or in the sidebar.
Ayboll works on both CPA and CPC basis. You are paid for clicks on ads. It is a premium network where you earn 50% revenue on the sales you make, which means you get paid if one of your visitors purchases an item via one of the advertisers sites or generates leads/high quality clicks.
The payment threshold is minimum $100 within 60 days via bank transfer at a fee of $30 or via Skrill at no fees.
Infolinks is another smart and effective Google AdSense alternative for high traffic websites. Though you’ll not see much earnings if your website receives low traffic but still the revenue share of 70% makes it an attractive option for the publishers.
Infolinks converts keywords in the content into advertising links and you get paid for unique click on the links.
The payment threshold is $50 for payment via PayPal, ACH, eCheck and Payoneer while it’s $100 for payment via Bank Transfer and Western Union. Payments are issued within 45 days from the end of the month or from the time you reach the threshold.
Apart from intext links, they also serve inframe, insearch and intag ad units.
The best way to monetize infolinks is not to put many links into a single page. Place a combination of intext and inframe or intext and insearch ads wisely so that it blends with the site and doesn’t necessarily look like an ad.
Superlinks is display ad network and is best for only those with 100,000 visitors a month. Sites with that amount of visitors can get approved on Superlinks. While it is not a Google AdSense alternative for smaller sites, but high traffic sites can use them in case they want a secondary monetization option.
It works on CPM model while Google AdSense works on CPC.
The payment threshold is $100 for PayPal and Payoneer and $500 for wire transfer. The payout is after 35 days of the current month.
Adversal has features similar to SuperLinks but to get approved as a publisher, you must have a minimum of 50,000 page views per month. If you have a really high traffic website, I’d suggest that you apply both for SuperLinks and Adversal.
The minimum payout is $20 only, which is quite low and they pay via PayPal, ACH and Wire Transfer. They pay after 35 days of the current month.
So, this is quite a good Google AdSense alternative apart from Superlinks that pays high.
Media.net is the best Google AdSense alternative. It is a contextual ad network by Yahoo! And Bing. It offers high paying ads and woks similar to AdSense.
It works on CPC, CPM and CPA model. If you’ve a quality blog, you’re likely to get your account approved in no time.
Since it’s an invitation based ad network, you can get your invitation here. Enter your details and about your website and one of their representatives will evaluate your blog before approving your application.
The minimum payout is $100 via PayPal and Wire Transfer. They pay after 30 days from the end of the month.
Very similar to Google AdSense, Chitika works on CPC model. I personally like Chitika because the ads are relevant and I’m able to edit the text color, URL color, and border color to blend with the site. The improves the conversion rate.
You can safely run Chitika ads along with Google AdSense.
The payout is $10 only for PayPal and $50 for Check. They pay after 30 days from the end of the month.
Viglink is quite different from traditional form of Google AdSense advertising. It is best-suited for sites that have outbound links to product pages or Amazon stores or using money-related terms such as iPhone, Laptop, Apple, etc.
It’s perfect for those who you run an ecommerce site or review sites or product-based sites.
So, even if you’re not using outbound links, Viglink automatically add links your money terms and you end up earning money for the purchases made through those links.
Viglink works on both CPC and CPA model, so some links pays immediately upon click while some pay only after purchase.
It pays after 60 days from the month and the payment limit is $10 via PayPal.
Skimlinks works in a similar manner to Viglink, so you can say Skimlinks is the best alternative to Viglink.
It also converts outbound links to affiliate links and you can earn for every sale made.
So, if you use a combination of SkimLinks and VigLink, you can increase your earnings considerably.
They keep 25% of the commission earning to themselves and pay out the rest. The payout threshold is $10 within 60 days at the end of the month.
Qadabra is a simple Google AdSense alternative and it just takes 15 seconds to sign up with Qadabra. You don’t have to wait for approval and you get paid right from the first dollar via PayPal.
However, the payout is $20 for Payoneer and $200 for Wire Transfer.
Qadabra offer great fill rates and also supports international traffic. So, if you have a small to medium scale website, Qadabra is a great alternative to Google AdSense.
AdEngage is another online advertising network and is one of the best alternatives to Google AdSense for medium-traffic websites. It works on CPC and CPM model and supports Text, Banner and Mobile ads.
You can make 100% commission from the net sales you make through AdEngage ads.
To qualify as a publisher, a site must have at least 1000 impressions per day or an Alexa Rank under 1,000,000.
The minimum payout is $50 through PayPal and Check and $1000 through Wire Transfer.
You can also monetize adult sites with AdEngage.
Tribal Fusion woks on CPM basis, and to qualify as a publisher, you need a minimum of 5000 unique visitors a day with active content and professional site design. It’s a great alternative for high traffic sites.
They have a revenue share of 55%, which is quite good. The payout is $50 via check after 45 days of the month.
This ad network is one of the best Google AdSense laternatives if you’re in the gaming, forex, media, entertainment niche. It works on both CPC and CPA basis.
They support several ad formats such as banner, onclick, in-banner video, sliders and many other formats.
They pay every 15 days but the greatest demerit is that they still do not support PayPal.
Bidvertiser is also a good alternative to Google AdSense because this ad network also works on Cost per Click basis.
Bidvertiser does not disclose the revenue share but the payout threshold is $10 for PayPal and $100 for Check every 30 days.
I am not a great fan of Bidvertiser because I’ve seen the earning potential to be quite low even for high traffic volume sites.
Clicksor is an intext-advertising ad network like Infolinks. They work on CPC basis and the revenue share is very attractive. Clicksor publishers can earn up to 85% of revenue share.
The payout is $50 via PayPal, Check and Wire Transfer and they pay every 15 days.
So, Clicksor is one of the best Google AdSense alternatives for low traffic sites.
BuySellAds is one of the best alternatives of Google AdSense if I take into account the earning potential.
It works a little differently than AdSense. Here advertisers can directly buy ad space on the publishers’ blog. All you have to do is list your blog on BuySellAds and advertisers browse through to search for ad space on relevant blogs according to their requirements and budget.
However, BuySellAds does not accept low traffic sites. To get approved, a site must have at least 100,000 impressions per month, clean layout and updated quite regularly.
Wrapping Up…
As you can see, there are indeed many Google AdSense alternatives to make money online. But the key point is to drive traffic to your website.
The more the traffic, the more is the clicks; and the more is the clicks, the more will be the money you can make from these Google AdSense alternatives.
So, I would like to know your thoughts about the best Google AdSense alternatives and if any one of the above ad networks has worked for you or not.
Hey Manak,
First I want to say thanks to you for this great article. I have applied last year of adsense and luckily It got approved without any trouble. I have heard before about Media.net, BuySellAds, Infolinks and Vigilinks. Rest of them are new for me.
I have started by new blog last moth, I am using adsense on it, but it is not making money right now as you said that traffic matters in any condition when you intend to make money via your blog or website. I am trying to grab traffic. Hopefully, I will soon make it.
Thanks again
Hi Nikhil,
Welcome to my blog. 🙂 And great to know that you got approval to AdSense without any trouble.
You’re so right without traffic, you cannot make a single penny. I have experienced this personally myself, so I must say to make money, you got to have traffic. Hope you get the traffic to your new blog too. BTW, I just visited your blog and it’s very nice. I will soon visit again.
Things have straighten up for me after using the plugin from Ads1K by which have been able to monetize all my wordpress sites. For the other ones have used the publisher direct js code even if the traffic is kind of low.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ads1kcom-official/
Hi Mainak,
Its good to be reminded of the best alternatives to Google Adsense. These alternatives surely serve as additional sources of income for any blogger! It would be cool that we access how each of these platforms can be utilized absolutely for the benefit of the blogger!
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Hi Sunday,
Yes, these are indeed additional sources of income but I don’t think they come close to AdSense or pay is as great as AdSense.
Great list! For me Infolinks is one of the best alternatives for Google Adsense. They have very strict rules and not all passed, and many got banned and rejected but infolinks is readily available.
Infolinks is a tool that can help you make money too. It is very easy to install, easy to use, there are variety of ad types to choose from like InText ads that provides contextual advertising. It’s great, I must say.
This is what I want to recommend since I am not familiar with the other alternatives in your list aside from Chitika.
I tried Infolinks but it didn’t work great for me. Good to know that you find it as the best alternative. Hope it’s working for you and you’re making something out of Infolinks.
Amazing post for someone who is adsense affected… surely I am not
Nice to know that you’re not affected….. Keep up the good work.
These are some good alternatives to google adsense. Some of them I have heard of before and some of them I haven’t. Google adsense can be a pain to some when they find out the google has banned their site from receiving ads, and these could be useful in generating some type of revenue. I think google is the best revenue generator when it comes to ads, unless you offer a monthly fee for ad space, but these alternatives can definitely be useful. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Lawrence,
Welcome to the blog and good to hear that you have heard of some of them before. Google AdSense is the best but what to do if someone can’t monetize with AdSense, they have to find some alternative!!!
BTW, I visited your blog and you really have a nice looking blog!
Hello ,
The list is of adsense alternatives are very good . I have to try them.
Thank your for sharing those ….
Do try and let me know how they work in your case!
Such a good article about google adsense alternatives. There are no doubt that Google adsense is the world best Ad network for earn money from websites.
Thanks Warda!!
Hi Mainak,
Loved the Blog post. It contained a ton of useful information for me.
Not only did I get to know about various AdSense alternatives, I also got to read about your personal experiences with each alternative. This was where the value of this Blog post came in for me.
I totally agree that AdSense delivers. If your website has at least 10,000 to 20,000 visitors per month, AdSense delivers.
For most alternatives the number of focused site visitors needs to be a lot more closer to about 50,000 for their returns to be attractive.
Thanks Mainak, enjoyed to the read. Lots of valuable information here.
I came to your website from a link on Kingged.
Hi Ivan,
Glad to know that you found it useful!
I’ve seen from my personal experience that the more traffic a site has, the more will be the income from these types of ads like AdSense, Chitika, etc..
But if we want to monetize with own products or so, even with smaller amount of traffic but targeted traffic, we can succeed.
BTW, I visited your blog and it contains lots of useful tutorials on WordPress. Keep up the great work. I will visit you soon again.
How grateful am I reading this article. Thanks for sharing wonderful article to let us know about high paying Google Adsense alternatives for our blog.There are no doubt that Google ad-sense is the world best Ad network for earn money from blog, but Google Giving strict policies.Although there are some in there that I haven’t tried yet.
Hi Sourabh,
Glad to know you like the article. Are you using any of these other alternatives to make money apart from adsense?
HI Mainak,
Well Apart from adsence right now i am using infolink.
Good to hear that you are using infolinks. Hope you’re making money out of it.
I have used Infolinks. I dont think it should be on the list. The rarely pay penny to publishers. very low amount, I am looking forward for the others.
@Pushkar, actually the fact is if you have low amount of visitors to your blog, you will get pennies. These ad networks works based on visitors. The greater visitors you have, the more you will be paid.
I see there is not Amazon COM ads as Adsense alternative, tho they can make some serious money if you have 2-3+k traffic.
Yes, Amazon ads do pay but I have not added to the list because I want to solely focus on ad networks like AdSense. Not affiliate marketing.
You are right on the spot. But I think even two of alternatives combined can not beat adsense. What do you think?
You are right Steve, that the alternatives cannot beat adsense. But here the purpose of this post is to give the information to those bloggers whose Adsense account is suspended. So they would have only choice of these alternatives. And why not make something than nothing?!
Thanks for stopping by..
” have tried Google Adense several times with different websites, blogs and changing contents. All the time they have rejected without a reason. Looking at Google search I have tried alternatives which was mentioned in this post. No use, from Infolinks I just earned 6 cents after one month. Unless the ads displayed are very attractive and good, no body will click, Most of the times, infolinks popup ad, people cut them as it is disturbing.
So finally it is very difficult to earn single cent through internet. All are cheating and bogus.”
Hi Mohd Arif,
Thanks for stopping by and welcome to my site. 🙂
I understand that you are having a difficult time making money on the Internet. But making money on the Internet is for real – there is no cheating or bogus, unless someone charges you to sign up or make money.
And you can earn good amount of money through Google AdSense or Infolink only when you have huge traffic to your site. By huge I mean about 2000 to 5000 visitors per day. So, instead of just creating a site and monetizing it, expecting your site to make money without the hard work, will not work.
You have to create the site, work smart and hard on bringing traffic and then monetize the site. You will see results.
I tryed many ad networks but low cpm but i’m seeing good cpm rates with adotize.com
Good addition to the list!
Bue sell ads and media.net are two of the best alternetives for adsense banned sites. But getting approved formthese networks is relly hard. Infolinks is the easiest amongst all these network to get approved but the return pay out of this network is like a HELL.
I agree Infolinks pay is quite less whereas media.net has good pay. A good traffic blog can easily get approved by media.net.
I am using Chitika on my blog since 3 or 4 months but there is no “clicks” happend since then. I think this belongs to the traffic on my webiste. There is no so much traffic on my blog. can you please tell me if there is another method to get clicks on ads and how can I get more traffic to my website within 2 months. Keep blogging…
Getting clicks on ads is all about getting traffic and optimizing the ads at places for best clicks. So don’t make the ads stand out as too flashy, rather blend it with your content.
Most of the new bloggers apply for AdSense many times and become disappointed after getting rejected by AdSense. But AdSense is not the only advertising network for publishers
AdSense does reject many applications but if you follow all their rules to the point, they generally accept and approves applications very fast.
As per my experience, Google AdSense is single one capable to make $100 per day to the publishers who can do follow the rules, research more about how to increase your revenue and cost per click. If you have a good volume traffic and have rich resources with quality, then nobody will stop you to make $100 per day. 🙂
Absolutely correct! But the main point is getting traffic and clicks… so best is to optimize the site from time to time for click positions.
I tried many of the adsense alternatives that you mention in your post. I found that infolink is pay more than other adsense alternatives. But adsense is much better than these alternatives. If you already used adsense, don’t try these alternative of adsense