Almost all bloggers set up websites to earn money. Once they have sufficient traffic to their websites, they can apply for membership in advertising networks and show ads on their websites to earn money. Choosing the right Advertising Network would be the key to get most out your effort. Below is our list of 5 Top Advertising Networks for publishers in 2016.
Top Advertising Networks For Publishers
Google AdSense is one of the best advertising networks at the moment. Founded in 2013, they provide extremely relevant ads and high CPM as well.
Getting into Google AdSense is quite tough though. They don’t have any official traffic requirements but they review your website thoroughly before accepting. Also, they won’t allow websites which have content related to betting or illegal stuff. Their minimum pay-out is $100. They can pay via check or EFT transfer.
However, a major disadvantage is that they often ban your account if you violate their terms, even accidentally. They hardly listen to your feedback or appeal so you probably won’t get your account back once banned.
2. Infolinks
Infolinks is one of the top advertising networks after Google AdSense. They provide links as ads instead of conventional banner ads, where certain words in your website will be converted to links which when clicked show the advertisers ads in a new tab.
Infolinks can also be used alongside Google AdSense or any other advertising network that offers banner ads simultaneously. Setting up Infolinks is extremely easy as well. They have step by step instructions on their website. Once you have completed these steps, your ads will start appearing almost immediately.
Minimum payment is $50. You can receive payment via PayPal. However, earning money via Infolinks is difficult unless you have high traffic and most of that is from countries like USA.
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3. Tribal Fusion
Tribal Fusion is one of the biggest names among top advertising networks. They serve more than 20 billion ads per month.
They have very strict requirements for publishers. Your website should have at least 500,000 visitors per month. Also, you should update your website often and also have a top domain meaning subdomains like blogspot.com or wordpress.com won’t be allowed.
You can earn a lot of money from Tribal Fusion. Depending on the content and origin of traffic, CPM can be anywhere between $.20 and $2.00. Minimum payment is $50. Unfortunately, PayPal isn’t supported, only check is allowed.
4. Clicksor
Clicksor is one of the oldest advertising networks. They offer various ad formats such as in-text ads, interstitial ads, and pop-under ads.
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They have no minimum requirements and usually accept all websites. The minimum pay-out is $50. They can pay via check, PayPal, or Wire transfer. Note a portion of the payment is deducted if wire transfer is used.
However, they have been known to show malware ads on several websites so one should be careful while using them.
5. Chitika
A very popular network, Chitika serves over 4 billion ads per month. One of the best advantages is that they have very few requirements for eligibility.
Chitika is known to be pretty effective for websites which have more videos and images, than text since their ads aren’t based on keywords, unlike Google AdSense. Instead, they check the search terms that were used to visit the website and use those to show relevant ads.
Their minimum pay-out depends on the withdrawal method. For PayPal, it is only $10, while it is $50 for check.