Smart Money Making: Fast Earning With The Internet: Top 6 Affiliate Program Comparison

Comparison between AdSense, Kontera, TradeDoubler, Auctionads and others populare affiliate programs

What's the affiliate programs which pay more? And what is the best AdSense alternative? What kind of advertising may we use together in the same pages? I have tried and tested personally the following affiliate programa. This is a mini-guide to AdSense alternatives to increase earning via internet
1. AdSense

AdSense is the best pay per click affiliate program for sure. The best features are the huge announcement variety and the very effective contextualization mechanisms. Another strong point is his dynamism, which rewards the most authoritative web sites with a higher click remuneration and penalizes web sites with poor contents. This mechanism is called Smart Pricing and update the price for click each week.

Ads type: text ads

Ads selection: contextual

Minimum traffic amount: no.

Language: almost all

Earnings type: Pay per Click

Advantages: Reliability and optimal remuneration

Disadvantages: Possibility of being banned due to events outside of your control

Take care about: Smart Pricing. Adsense can provide a hug earning range: it can make you rich, or really sad.

Payments: Check, wire transfer

Subscription: http://www.google.com/adsense/

2. AdBrite

It’s one of the most popular links exchange and text ads advertising program. It displays announcement blocks like AdSense, but not in contextual way. It is possible to select network Ads or only direct links, which advertisers buy on the publisher web site. AdBrite recently introduced InLine advertising (links to the words of web page text).

Ads type: text ads, InLine ads and Intertitial

Ads selection: selected by categories

Minimum traffic amount: no

Language: almost all

Earnings type: Pay Per Click and Pay Per Impression

Advantages: it manages text ads and links selling in the same time

Disadvantages: Lack of ads for non-english web sites.

Take care about: Video ads are recently available

Payments: check

Subscription: https://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/register_form.php

3. Miva Monetization Center

It's an affiliation program for contextual ads and inline ads. It has a good advertisers variety and the earning chance is not bad. Most common languages are available, but each language has its own web site with enrolment rules, tos etc.

Ads type: annunci testuali e InLine

Ads selection: contextual

Minimum traffic amount: no

Language: almost all but Portoghese (strange…)

Earnings type: Pay Per Click

Advantages: Nice interface for ads customisation. Good earnings.

Disadvantages: No clicks number into the reports

Take care about: Support seems slow

Payments: Wire transfer

Subscription: http://www.miva.com

4. TradeDoubler

It’s a Pay Per Performance affiliate program; it pays each time a user performs a specific action (lead, buy, contact etc). It has a huge list of publishers with a big number of banners, images and textual announcements to be manually inserted into web pages. You need to be authorized by each advertiser in order to promote their services. Imho it does not work on content web site.

Ads type: Images, Flash movies and text

Ads selection: manual

Minimum traffic amount: no

Language: Almost all

Earnings type: It depends from advertiser (sell, lead or other. There’s few pay-per-click ads)

Advantages: There’s a lot of publisher with terrific ads management tools

Disadvantages: I don’t trust their stats.

Take care about: When an advertiser does not pay Tradedoubler, the publisher (you) is not paid. It happens too much time in my opinion...

Payments: wire transfer

Subscription: http://www.tradedoubler.it/pan/login?action=register

5. AuctionAds

It let you to insert eBay auction ads into your web page. The ads are selected by keywords that you choose and place into the code. It’s a kind of manual contextualization. It’s a pay-per-action program, it pays each time that a user lead in, buy something etc.

Ads type: the graphic of ads is fully customizable

Ads selection: keyword selection

Minimum traffic amount: no

Language: fot important

Earning type: pay per lead or pay per sell

Advantages: -

Disadvantages: you need a lot of visits to let AuctionAds provide some earnings

Take care about: keyword selection: what kind of ads will appear using the keyword “mouse”?

Payments: check, PayPal

Subscription: http://www.auctionads.com

6 Kontera

Kontera is a leading provider of In-Text contextual advertising and information services based on patent-pending technology that maximizes relevancy and yield for online advertisers, publishers, and users.

The company’s flagship product, ContentLink®, identifies contextually relevant keywords on a publisher’s webpage in real-time and automatically matches them to relevant ads and information. Kontera's ad network encompasses thousands of publishers using ContentLink ads on websites, forums and blogs, for generating revenues from their content while providing relevant ads and information to their users.

Leading international advertisers in a broad range of product categories benefit from improved ROI on their pay per click advertising campaigns with Kontera's ContentLinks. Kontera ensures optimal relevancy between ads and users' online experience by serving ads and information that suit the user's frame of mind.

Kontera´s online advertising program is based on advanced patent-pending technology which enables real-time analysis of static or dynamic content. The company has developed proprietary semantic, statistical, linguistic, and yield maximization algorithms, which analyze content, select keywords and then match them to the most relevant contextual ads and information. Kontera's competitive edge and ability to best serve its partners stems from its advanced technology, wide range of eminent advertisers, vast network of publishers, and years of experience in the In-Text Advertising market.

Kontera was founded in 2003 by co-founders Yoav Shaham, Assaf Henkin, and Henit Vitos with the vision of providing relevant information to users at the point of context. Kontera is a privately held company backed by Sequoia Capital, Lehman Brothers and Carmel Ventures, with offices in San Francisco, California New York, New York and Herzliya, Israel