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Creating a good site or a blog is a tough job demanding lot of time and hard work. Naturally all bloggers and publishers will think about monetizing their blog at some point of time. Using your blog or site as a platform to launch advertisements is one of the best option to make money from it.
Google Adsense is the first choice of many publishers who had run their blogs for years and are fortunate enough to claim large number of page views per day. But beginners find it difficult to get approved by Adsense due to strict review norms. You will have to run your blog for at least six months to get reviewed by Adsense. There are many publishers who are banned from Adsense for wrong reasons. Minimum amount required for a pay out is Rs $100 which is also not pleasing for new bloggers.
General advertising options available are Banners, Text ads, Inline ads, Full page ads and Referral links.CPM (Cost per 1000), CPC (Cost per Click) and CPA (Cost per Action) are methods of calculating your income from advertisements.CPM charges purely on the number of times the advertisement is served.CPC is a cost associated with each click on the advertisement to the target page and CPA is a cost associated with each lead created from a click on the advertisement. I have tried many advertising options and following are the best options for a beginner.

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Adbrite is my first choice for beginners as you are paid simultaneously based on CPC and CPM. Adbrite provides almost all types of ads including inline ads and full page ads. Configuration of ads are easy and you can configure the color of text and background of your ads to suit your blog. You can also generate extra revenue for your site by participating in their referral program. One of the drawbacks is that your cheque should mature for 60 days before being eligible to be paid out.

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If your majority of visitors are from US and Canada, Chitika is the best option for you. Chitika advertisements are optimized for US and Canadian searches.Ads are really versatile with a new design which never look like a text link. Chitika will integrate well with Google Adsense as you can show Chitika for visitors from US and Canada and Google Adsense for other visitors. It also provides the option to collapse into nothing or display filler ads for visitors outside US and Canada. Minimum amount of payout is just $10.Chitika is the top revenue source for ProBlogger and many others, where Adsense takes only second place.

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Bidvertiser is another good option with high CPC rates. Another advantage of Bidvertiser is that you can place Bidvertiser ads in your RSS and atom feeds. To know more about placing Bidvertiser ads on feeds click here. Bidvertiser has a custom size ad option which will help many bloggers to fit them into their themes very nicely.

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If you have good number of visitors, say more than 10000 page views per month then ValidClick is the best option for you. The CPC rates are the highest among the Adsense alternatives. Registration process is also simple.ValidClick pays publishers thirty five days after the end of each revenue generating month. You can either opt for a check payment or an paypall payment.

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Yahoo Publisher Network is another free to join advertising program that help publishers make money. To be considered for the Yahoo! Publisher Network beta program, participants must have a valid U.S. Social Security or Tax ID number, and web site content that is predominantly in English and targeted at a U.S. user base. If you satisfy above condition you can consider Yahoo publisher network. Another advantage is the ability to use advertisements in RSS feeds.

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Kontera is best known for the inline ads and is the best option for it and bears the name Content link. Kontera’s advanced In-Text Pay Per Click Advertising solutions guarantee the highest degree of relevancy between content, keywords and ads. Some key words in your blog will be double underlined and on rolling mouse over it a small window popes up. Some publishers may dislike inline ads but it is has got a higher conversion rate.

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Pogads is a good advertising network which can be considered by beginners as no restrictions on number of page views are implemented here. You have an option to change advertisements displayed on your site very frequently, as low as every one minute, which will help in showing more ads and inturn increases the chance of click. Choose from layer ads, video ads, text ads, link ads or image ads and start making money instantly.

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Claxon Media offers multiple ad formats, accurate stats, timely payments, high fill rates, and the ability to preview ads, opt out of ads, and set up defaults. Affiliate payments are sent on the 15th and 30th of each month once minimum earnings of $50 is reached.Claxon ads are known as more tempting to click and hence likely to earn more clicks and money.The entire registration process is simple.