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What Do You Use For Your AlternateURL?

View Comments January 6, 2007 | Everton

I’ve been using www.alternateurl.com as my alternateURL for Google adsense for about a week or so and I want to bin them. I’ve spotted some of the ads and frankly they look awful, which probably explains why despite serving 12K ad impressions I haven’t had one click yet, giving me a zero CTR.
I have two options I think:

  1. Sign-up for another advertising scheme
  2. Producing my own house ads made up to drive traffic to key areas of my site

If I go for option 1, what service do you think I should use? I’d like to use something like Text Link Ad affiliate banners, but I can’t work out how to convert the sample code below into an url:

<a xhref=”http://www.text-link-ads.com/starter_kit.php?ref=36562″><img xsrc=” http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/text-link-ads.com/images/text_link_ads_F_468x60.gif ” border=”0″ alt=”Text Link Ads”></a>

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About Everton: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day. View posts.

  • DefaultAds is a free service for managing alternative ads when AdSense is unable to serve impressions.
  • All the best with that. I'm going to work on it as well.
  • Thanks Ajay - I've replaced all of my alternate urls. I'm quite hopeful about how they'll do and it's better than wasting roughly 12K ad imps per week with alternateurl.com.

    Even if I get a lower CPM than I do with adsense (not allowed to say what I get) I could still be looking at an extra $50 a week. Not a lot, but it's cash I wouldn't see otherwise, so I'm not going to turn my nose up at it.
  • For that, you can put up a number of affiliate text links in the HTML file.
  • thanks for the tips guys. I've added a combination of chitika and text link ads as my alternate urls. Hopefully I'll get something back now from previously wasted impressions.

    I wasn't able to find a replacement for my adsense 468x15 link unit - any suggestions?
  • @ajay

    The code is funny deliberately, as I still can't work out how to insert code in posts

    @ajay,@martin
    Since I updated to the latest version of WP-Cache (2.20) no posts and comments aren't being displayed until the cache is refreshed or I manually flush the cache. So, I've had to temporarily turn it off.

    I've posted this in the forum
  • Ajay it happened to me on a different post. Took between 30-60 minutes before I was able to see the comments.
  • @Martin, the comments on this post or other posts? I'm a little confused about why it is happening here. Will have to ask Everton to look into it.
  • Just put the code in a html file and upload it your server and then put the link as you alternate URL. I've never used AlternateURL. I use well targeted Chitika Ads instead.
  • Your adsense code needs to link to a simple html file with the alternate ad code. I use collapsing adsense ads, but then they are not monetized.
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