15 Best Google AdSense Alternatives To Make Money From Your Website
Looking for the best Google AdSense alternatives to help you monetize your website?
While AdSense is definitely the biggest name in display advertising, it’s far from the only option.
Whether you’re looking for something to completely replace AdSense or just another complementary advertising option, there are plenty of other services that you can use to monetize your site.
In this post, I’ve collected 15 of the best advertising platforms. Some offer almost a 1:1 replacement for AdSense, while others give you something a little unique, like text ads, contextual product suggestions, and more.
Let’s get going so you can start earning…
15 best Google AdSense alternatives for 2020 and beyond
1. Media.net
Media.net is the most popular 1:1 AdSense alternative on this list as it’s the contextual ad product from Yahoo/Bing. It will serve up relevant ads based on the content on each page of your site, including both text and display ads
Like AdSense, you can create your own custom display ads or let Media.net figure out the sizes that get you the best results.
If you only try one AdSense alternative on this list, I would recommend it be this one.
The minimum payout at Media.net is $100, which is a bit higher than some of the other AdSense alternatives on this list.
2. Monumetric
Monumetric helps you make money by filling your ad inventory with the highest CPM offers available. Essentially, you set up the ad inventory that you have available on your site. Then, Monumetric helps you fill it in the way that earns you the most money for the impressions that you’re getting.
Monumetric has a reputation for being publisher-focused, with tools to help you manage which ads appear on your site and where they display.
For example, if you don’t want to display ads from a certain company or industry, Monumetric makes it easy for you to avoid those advertisers.
Monumetric works with sites starting at just 10,000 page views per month. However, if your site is under 80,000 page views, Monumetric charges a one-time $99 setup fee.
3. BuySellAds
BuySellAds is notable in that it’s not about automatically displaying contextual ads like you get with AdSense. Instead, you can list your ad inventory in the BuySellAds marketplace, where advertisers can directly purchase it.
For example, you can say, “I have this footer ad spot that gets 30,000 impressions. I’ll sell it for $300 per month”. Then, advertisers can easily purchase that inventory through BuySellAds – it’s all automated.
If you like that approach, definitely give BuySellAds a look.
The only downside is that BuySellAds will only work with your site if you’re getting over 100,000 page views per month.
Note: At some point you’ll have ad space available and nothing displaying until your ad space is sold. To ensure you’re not losing out, you can set “backfill” ads to run until your ads sell. One option is to pick out high converting affiliate offers from popular affiliate marketing platforms – they’ll give you banner codes to copy and paste.
4. Sovrn //Commerce (Formerly VigLink)
Sovrn //Commerce is the rebranded incarnation of VigLink. It helps you monetize your site by automatically inserting contextual advertising links into your content. These links are given to the highest-bidding retailer on the platform.
Sovrn //Commerce can also help you automatically add affiliate links to existing product mentions that you’ve already linked to on your site.
While the name is oddly confusing – why are there two slashes? – Sovrn //Commerce is neat because it’s fairly unobtrusive. Rather than large banner or text ads, it’s just adding a link to content that already exists.
The minimum payout at Sovrn //Commerce is just $10.
5. Amazon Associates / Native Shopping Ads
Amazon Associates is Amazon’s own affiliate network.
While a lot of people only think about Amazon Associates in the context of manually inserting relevant affiliate links into content, Amazon Associates also has its own contextual advertising offering called Native Shopping Ads.
With Native Shopping Ads, Amazon will automatically display relevant products based on the content of each page on your site. If your visitors click on those products and make a purchase, you’ll get an affiliate commission just as if you’d manually inserted the link yourself.
The only downside is that you’ll still only get paid if someone makes a purchase – you won’t get paid just for impressions or clicks like you do with AdSense.
The minimum payout threshold at Amazon Associates is $10.
If you decide to use Amazon Associates, make sure you familiarize yourself with all the rules, as Amazon Associates is a lot stricter than other affiliate networks. For example, you cannot cloak Amazon affiliate links.
6. PropellerAds
PropellerAds can help you monetize your website with a variety of different ad types, including some aggressive ad types that may or may not be right for you.
The two tamest ad formats are:
- Native banners which contain contextual ads related to your content.
- Smart links which automatically take users to the most relevant offer
If you want to get more aggressive, PropellerAds can also help you with…
- Onclick/popunder ads
- Interstitials which appear before or after specific pages on your site
- Push notifications, which let you advertise even after the person has left your site (if they accept your request to display push notifications)
PropellerAds offers weekly payouts and the minimum payment amount is just $5.
7. ylliX
If you thought Sovrn //Commerce was an odd name, let’s up the ante with ylliX. That…well, that is technically a name. “illix”, “why lie X”…I don’t know.
But don’t worry – they’re better at helping you monetize your website than they are at coming up with brandable company names.
ylliX guarantees a 100% worldwide fill rate. It has a variety of ad types and supports CPM, CPC, and CPA campaigns.
The minimum payout at ylliX is just $1 and ylliX supports daily payments, which is definitely one of the most generous payment policies of any of these AdSense alternatives.
While that’s all well and good, I have seen some complaints about ylliX letting dodgy advertisers onto the platform. So if that’s a concern for you, you might want to go with one of the other AdSense alternatives on this list.
For example, Monumetric or Media.net are probably much better choices if your site’s reputation is of utmost importance to you.
8. Skimlinks
Skimlinks uses a similar approach to the Sovrn //Commerce (VigLink) network that you saw above.
Essentially, it scans your content for mentions of the over 48,500 affiliate merchants in Skimlinks’ network. If it finds a mention, Skimlinks automatically adds an affiliate link to give you a chance to earn a commission.
The nice thing is that, because it has so many affiliate merchants in its network, you don’t have to deal with a bunch of separate programs.
The minimum payment is just $10, but Skimlinks operates on a Net 90 basis, which means you’ll have to wait a bit to get paid.
9. Bidvertiser
Bidvertiser helps you monetize your website with a variety of ad formats including display banners, popunders, sliders, smartlinks, and programmatic ads.
They guarantee 100% coverage for both desktop and mobile visitors, which means you’ll always have some type of ad displaying.
While Bidvertiser does support some more aggressive ad types (like popunders), they have a compliance team to ensure that the advertisers themselves are on the up and up.
The minimum payout at Bidvertiser is just $10.
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