AdSense (Contextual Advertising) - An Important Way of Earning Online Money

Unless you have a lot of traffic and a lot of updated new content, I doubt it is easy to make a lot of money with adsense services. However, plenty of people still earn good money from it and it is definitely a promising source of online income for me.

I checked out a couple of different services before selecting two of many.

I first looked into Bidvertiser who it appears pay less than the majority of services around but can pay you by paypal as opposed to check and the minimum earnings before you can withdraw funds is only $10.00. Some people claim to have not received payment from them.

I selected Google Adsense - the most well known and powerful services of them all. I've used them before but had forgotten how much they pay. Researching it over the internet, there is no clear answer and I will just let you know my findings (as I will for all the other things I review) at the end of the month. In this case, I will do it at the end of February. I've applied for adsense on this site and it should take 2 days to get a reply.


I also chose Adbrite, who pay well but need someone to buy advertising before small banner adverts will appear on a site. They also offer simple adsense adverts and full page advertisements. They accepted me immediately and gave me some HTML code to paste onto this site. Being very bad at HTML, I can only hope that I pasted it in the right place! According to them, their small banner should appear within 24 hours.

Other services included:

Clicksor, who pay well but only accept you if you are a high-traffic website, which I am not aswell as having other hard to match conditions.

AdEngage - You must wait until someone buys advertisement and as my website is just setting out this is not really ideal

Text-link-ads - The same problem as AdEngage but has a good reputation, an easy-to-use website, they claim to pay 70% of the revenue they receive, compatible with Adsense and they offer paid blogging. I might spend longer looking at this website. If you do join this site, please put your referer down as "dangaroo" (that's me!)

Yahoo Publisher Network - USA only, so no good for me! As usual, they forget the rest of the world exists!

There are undoubtedly more companies but these are the main ones for the moment. There will be an update if I come across another large company that pays well.