What Do You Use For Your AlternateURL?

January 6th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

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.text-link-ads.com/images/text_link_ads_F_468×60.gif ” border=”0″ alt=”Text Link Ads”></a>

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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, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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  1. #1

    Comment by Martin on 6 January 2007:

    You have to create a blank htm file, add the text-link-ads code to it, upload it and link to the url. That should work. Have not tried it though.

  2. #2

    Comment by Martin on 6 January 2007:

    Another note, I never used alternate ads before but I will try it out now. Nice tip.

  3. #3

    Comment by Ajay on 6 January 2007:

    Dude, you needa format the code pasted out here on the blog.

    Regarding the alternate url, put the code in a html file and specify the url of the file as your alternate url for Google adsense. Will blog about this in more detail.

  4. #4

    Comment by Ajay on 6 January 2007:

    Is there some kind of bug in displaying the comments? I didn’t see both of Martin’s posts above until I posted my comment. Or did you just approve them?

  5. #5

    Comment by Martin on 6 January 2007:

    Ajay I experienced the same yesterday but my comments have been there for some time now. (and yours have not been there at that time)

  6. #6

    Comment by Quick Online Tips on 6 January 2007:

    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.

  7. #7

    Comment by Thilak on 6 January 2007:

    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.

  8. #8

    Comment by Ajay on 6 January 2007:

    @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.

  9. #9

    Comment by Martin on 6 January 2007:

    Ajay it happened to me on a different post. Took between 30-60 minutes before I was able to see the comments.

  10. #10

    Comment by Everton on 6 January 2007:

    @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

  11. #11

    Comment by Everton on 6 January 2007:

    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 468×15 link unit - any suggestions?

  12. #12

    Comment by Ajay on 6 January 2007:

    For that, you can put up a number of affiliate text links in the HTML file.

  13. #13

    Comment by Everton on 6 January 2007:

    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.

  14. #14

    Comment by Ajay on 6 January 2007:

    All the best with that. I’m going to work on it as well.

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  16. #16

    Pingback by Review Of Alternate Advertising Schemes | Connected Internet on 7 March 2007:

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  17. #17

    Comment by Craig Rowe on 13 March 2008:

    DefaultAds is a free service for managing alternative ads when AdSense is unable to serve impressions.

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