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The complete blog monetization guide INCLUDES ADSENSE AD OPTIMIZATION, OTHER NETWORKS AND MORE…
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Contents… What we have covered
Abhishek Dey | skype: ronniedey | http://blognife.com
Increase AdSense Earnings by Optimization
Best AdSense Alternatives
Links Ads- How you can Make Money?
Native Ads- The Ninjas
Pop-Unders- Good or Bad, They can earn you $$
Google Consumer Surveys- The Gold mine
The Legendary Affiliate Marketing
Earn high CPMs from Facebook’s Audience Network
Mobile Web Ads- What it has to Offer
Video Ads- The new Trend
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Lets Get Started..
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No Oh! Come on.. It’s about Money.. Surely Yes!
Abhishek Dey | skype: ronniedey | http://blognife.com
Optimization- What’s in…
Abhishek Dey | skype: ronniedey | http://blognife.com
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With a lot of players coming in, the ad optimization industry is getting big and so is the entire online advertising eco-space! Go beyond creating experiments in Google AdSense dashboards.. Use ad optimization to increase your AdSense revenue by 25-100%. I have listed below a few technology partners and have recommended the one I liked the most!
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AdPushup [Recommended] ď ľ
AdPushup uses advanced machine learning and multi-variate testing to optimize ads based on placement, ad size, ad type, ad styles. The system also takes care of UX and banner blindness by showing different ad placements to users. According to the latest data, 85% of its associates found a positive rise in revenue with an average of 68% rise in RPM Revenue is ultimately the lifeblood of any business. Growing revenue without materially changing any other aspect of the business is always huge and just grows the bottom line. If we hadn’t worked with AdPushup, we would have been leaving money on the table. ~Customer Says
Abhishek Dey | skype: ronniedey | http://blognife.com
AmpedSensefor Budding Publishers ď ľ
AmpedSense allows you to inject and split test various AdSense configurations into your Wordpress blog until you find the best AdSense ads to use on your site. You can downloadthe AmpedS ense plugin directly from the official WordPress plugin repository.
Abhishek Dey | skype: ronniedey | http://blognife.com
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Adngin ď ľ
AdNgin is the industry leading solution built to maximize ad revenue through continuous ad layout optimization.
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Adngin uses a unique algorithm to continuously A/B test AdSense ad units and improve AdSense revenues. The WordPress plugin offers simple installation and setup. Its dashboard is created using customer feedback to provide a seamless user experience. You can add new ads, customize sizes & colour, behaviour, exclude pages, and many more exclusive features.
Abhishek Dey | skype: ronniedey | http://blognife.com
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Make Money with AdSense Alternatives
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Not much scenes here! There are hardly and ad network which can beat Google Adsense in terms of CPC/CPM revenue models. The only who companies which can beat AdSense RPM well by a margin are Criteo and Tribal Fusion! Criteo has it’s own ad serving technology which lets you attain CPMs which are much higher than AdSense.
Abhishek Dey | skype: ronniedey | http://blognife.com
Image source: google adsense
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Criteo ď ľ
Criteo can fill 20%-40% of your page views if you have substantial tier-1 traffic. Their ad CPM are typically 3 to 4 times more than AdSense. Criteo ads are served only when the Criteo Engine feels that the user is most likely to complete an action (like a purchase or lead). This means, Criteo takes only those impressions which are relevant to Criteo’s advertisers leaving the remaining impressions to be filled by AdSense. Do read my Criteo review, CPM rates, and more!
Abhishek Dey | skype: ronniedey | http://blognife.com
Image source: criteo
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Tribalfusion ď ľ
Founded in 1998, Tribal Fusion is currently one of the largest online advertising networks in the world, serving close to 20 billions ads monthly. As is the case with the giants of any industry, if you want to play with the big boys you have to walk the walk, not just talk the talk: there are several requirements for getting approved to run Tribal Fusion ads. Publishers must attract a minimum of 500,000 unique visitors per month, are prohibited from displaying sexual content, update their websites frequently, have an active user base,
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Image source: tribalfusion
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Media.net
Media.net accepts high quality content sites! There is no traffic threshold which is an extremely good thing, it shows they are trying to get local, tapping the pool of local audience, along with global! Also if your site is high-quality and relevant to media.net’s stream of advertisers, you can bargain for a high and fixed CPM rates with the publishers. CPM’s can typically range from 0.50 to as high as $5 for quality tier 1 traffic. To do better with them, you need to have a substantial traffic coming from US and Canada.
Image source: media.net Abhishek Dey | skype: ronniedey | http://blognife.com
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Make Money with Links Ads
Viglink
Skimlinks
Infolinks
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Image source: Viglink.com
Native Ads- The Ninjas
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Native advertising formats and sponsored stories are changing the way online advertising is served. Good news is they do pay! RevContent is already said to outperform AdSense RPM in terms of what publishers earn by place 2 widget units vs 4 AdSense/AdX ad units. While RevContent would require you to have more than 3 million page views a month, you can settle with the alternatives, Adnow specially for the mid sized publishers!
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Image credits: http://blog.realmatch.com/
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Taboola
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You need to have a minimum of 1 million page views per month to join the Taboola network. Once you sign up, a publisher representative will contact you and send you the widget codes. You can also use the WordPress Taboola plugin to implement the code. The plugin makes the code installation much easier. You can take a detailed look about the RPM rates and earning potential at my Taboola review article.
Abhishek Dey | skype: ronniedey | http://blognife.com
Image source: Taboola.com
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Adnow
Read detailed review here..
AdNow is an advertising network that offers widget based native ads, to be used by publishers on their website. This premium Ad network has more than 1, 50,000 publishers as of now. Adnow accepts publishers who are otherwise turned down by Taboola, RevContent and Outbrain. I have found Adnow’s RPM rates almost comparable to Taboola. So if you’re looking to monetize your website through Native adsAdnow can be a good option.
Abhishek Dey | skype: ronniedey | http://blognife.com
Image source: adnow.com
16 Pop-Unders: Good or Bad, Earns $$
AdPop
Popads
Edomz
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Google Consumer Surveys
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Google Consumer Surveys is a business product by Google that facilitates customized market research. The product was designed by Google as an alternative to internet pay walls for websites that publish content. The program was launched by several online publishers such as Pandora, AdWeek, and the New York Daily News. From a Publisher’s point of you- Google Consumer Surveys lets you to make money from your site only when an user answers a question.
Abhishek Dey | skype: ronniedey | http://blognife.com
Read more about how to implement….
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The Legendary Affiliate Marketing Abhishek Dey | skype: ronniedey | http://blognife.com
ShareaSale
CJ
Peerfly
vCommission
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With Facbeook’s Audience Network, you can see strong CPM’s if majority of your site’s traffic is mobile and from tier one countries. Even the performance is good for Asian and global traffic and you can get eCPMs as high as $1-$5. I suggest you try Audience Network in association with other ad networks. Fill rates will be around 10-40%.
Setup guide to Audience Network Abhishek Dey | skype: ronniedey | http://blognife.com
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Video Ads- The New Trend ď ľ
Publishers are finding new ways to monetize their blog's content and video is growing as an ad type specially in the CPV segment where brands create awareness through such videos. Getting started with video ads require you to host your own video. You need two things, a video player and a server which can stream the videos. It is a very costly affair to create your own video player and thus it is better to go for a subscription based model and get a player. My recommendation will be radiantmediaplayer which is cheaper than its competitors but has the same functionalities. A more cheaper solution would be to go with the codecanyon plugin- WP Ad Player
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For serving video ads, you can go with Sulvo (Also a good CPM network) or Vertoz. I would recommend you to try Sulvo first! You can also try Cedato which offers video monetization solutions!
Abhishek Dey | skype: ronniedey | http://blognife.com
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Wrapping Up… I CAN REVIEW YOUR SITE AND DO THESE ABOVE SETUP/INTEGRATIONS DEPENDING ON YOUR TRAFFIC AND NICHE. I HAVE BEEN IN AD OPTIMIZATION INDUSTRY AND HAS RELEVANT EXPERTISE AND THAT’S NOT WITH ONE COMPANY! SO PROBABLY AFTER REVIEWING YOUR TRAFFIC I CAN OFFER YOU THE BEST MONETIZATION SOLUTION AND THIS SHOULD ABLE TO HELP YOU INCREASE REVENUE FROM YOUR SITE FASTER.
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Thanks for your time…
I appreciate and thank you to go through this presentation. If you have any query about ad optimization, do get in touch with me on skype. Thanks and love you all!
My skype id is : ronniedey Abhishek Dey Ad optimization consultant, Blogger, Market research consultant
Abhishek Dey | skype: ronniedey | http://blognife.com