Alternatives To Adsense

It's important that you don't "put all your eggs in one basket" and rely solely on adsense.

I keep telling myself this because a lot of my income does indeed come from adsense. Over the next few days I'll be trying a few alternative monetization techniques and I'll let you know the results.

Currently I'm trying out Kontera. By slotting some javascript into your code, this service highlights certain words in your text and then links them to an advertiser.

So far the results haven't been great. I'm trying out my movie site, mainly because google adsense ads just show up a load of illegal download software sites. My website is about cult movies so I'm guessing a lot of my customers aren't interested in this kind of thing.

Kontera for example hasn't done a great job of picking up relevant words. For example, it seized upon the word "journey" with the ad "buy journey CDs on ebay". The ads look a lot nicer than adsense but I fail to see how Journey Cds fit in with my movie site.

I think I'll give Allfeeds a try and I'll report back later.

Til next time...