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Alternative to Google Adsense

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I'm starting a small site with some online tools. Tried to include Google Adsense but I initially got rejected because the site was still on construction.

Yet I've seen in the forums that they are rejecting many small sites or sites that are like other sites already doing the same thing, because they don't consider them "of value". I will be finishing my site these days and I really didn't want to start without some kind of ads in it.

If I get rejected again, can you recommend some alternative to Google AdSense ? Thanks.

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For those that don't know Google's product AdSense, it's an ads viewer. There's a small code that you can put in your site/blog/whatever and it shows ads, monetizing the page.

Here are 2 examples of sites with AdSense ads:

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/marty-robot-stop-shop-tiktok-surveillance/

https://www.catforum.com/threads/my-cat-bee-is-a-lynx-point-siamese-cat.400959/

What I want is just to monetize the page. I have lateral columns and horizontal spaces in my site that I want to substitute by ads.

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What is AdSense? (7 comments)
Consider donations (5 comments)
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Consider donations
Quasímodo‭ wrote almost 3 years ago

Have you considered donations? Of course this will highly depend on your site's profile and audience, but on the other hand advertisements are the web's plague. They attempt to track and distract users. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the visitors used adblock anyway.

nelson777‭ wrote almost 3 years ago

hmmm... I haven't think about that. But I don't think it will work in my case. The idea is to make a site with lots of small tools like several conversors, calculators for different tasks, teacher's agendas, anything I can came up, in the middle of a frame of ads to create traffic and revenue. I know there's a lot like this around, but I haven't got time to implement my "big ideas" and I thought I put a small project that may create some monetization and that may grew with time. I'm also using it as a tool to learn some tecnologies I want to learn and can't use in my daily work.

nelson777‭ wrote almost 3 years ago

Do you have some information on the level of success other sites have with donations ? My impression is that the return is almost 0.

Quasímodo‭ wrote almost 3 years ago

@#54036777 For these kind of applications, I'm afraid you are right. People are likely to just search for "calculator", use the first one that fits, and go away. This is a considerably different approach than for information providing sites such as Wikipedia (some figures) and The Web Archive.

nelson777‭ wrote almost 3 years ago

Yes... anyway, thanks for caring :) If you have any other idea now or in the future I'm more than happy to hear it.