Ads for Indians
Ads for Indians - Guide to chose proper ad service
Ads For Indians
This article features some of the most important and best revenue options if you can not use Google Adsense or YPN and you have a site targeted to an Indian Audience. Before we start let us ask some questions.
- Do you have a site with major traffic from India?
- Have you tried Google Adsense?
- Have you tried Yahoo Publishers Network?
Even if you you site is not targeted to an Indian audience, you will still learn some because I am going to touch some other Ad Revenue options briefly.
First of all, there may be people angry with adsense, but ADSENSE is still the best ad revenue service existing today. They simply do NOT have any competitor. Yahoo Publishers Network may be the next best choice but they are in Beta Stage while we never heard about when MSN will finally launch their parallel program to adsense.
So, if you are rejected by Adsense, you are in trouble. There are other ad services such as:
- Ad Brite
- Bidvertiser
- …..many more
I have mentioned only AdBrite and Bidvertiser because they are only two worth mentioning. With bidvertiser you have the nice option to receive your earnings via PAYPAL. However, for most of the websites your Click through rate is really bad so, click per revenue and over all income is way less than google. Biggest reason: none other than adsense got such a huge number of advertisers that mingle nicely with any kind of content.
Your best option here is go for Kontera.
Kontera is really in-line advertising and sometime they show too many ads in one page if you do not control the numbers of ads to be shown in each page, but they are pretty steady and better than Adbrite/Bidvertiser most of the time.
Well Now if you really have a Indian Site, you can have two more options:
Adsforindians are doing business for quite some time. However they pay 2 or 3 rupees per click. While Ads2target is very new and still in Beta Stage but they pay only 1 rupee per click most of the time. CTR for both service is pretty low.
Adsforindians site is heavily advertised using Google Adsense and they show too many Trashy Ads. Ads2target on the other hand looks lot more professional and they have renouned partners such as
as advertiser.
So, I would recommend using both and choose the one that is giving you better revenue. But if you have Google Adsense, DO NOT THINK ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE.
You have more options like Chitika Mall, Amazon, Ebay Partner Network but I have not found any success in my sites targeted for Indian audience. I think Indian people still needs more time before they really start buying stuff online on regular basis.
If you enjoy this post, please leave a reply for me.
Thanks,
Ankan Basu
November 10th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Hi Ankan Basu,
What do you mean by:
Adsforindians site is heavily advertised using Google Adsense and they show too many Trashy Ads.
How google adsense connected to Adsforindians? What do you mean by trashy ads?
Most of the time google gives non-Indian ads. do you like them? at least on adsforindians, we get Indian ads. In these tough economic times, Rs.3 is too big. don’t expect too high for too little traffic.
November 10th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Well..
If you have ever used Adsforindians, you would have known the meaning.
Where did you find the info that Google shows non-Indian Ads?
Google has the most diverse client and there is no other ad agency to compete google.
Most of the ads in ads for indians are Trashy.. means, if you click on some advertiser on adsforindians, you will end up in another page with 20 adsense units and no contents!
Again, I have huge traffic. I have tried Adsforindians with 0 success. Even after having so called “Indian ADS” the CTR is extremely poor.
Hope I have explained enough.
November 10th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
I am a long term publisher of AdsForIndians. I too have very high traffic and I have no problem with their ads.
The success depends on case to case and the site relevant ads you get for your site. They may not have suitable ad inventory for your site.
Regarding Trashy ads, now a days we see too many adsense or some other ads on every site. There is nothing wrong by the advertisers in showing many ads to make money.
Everybody knows, google is the king, but appreciate the good work by our Indians too.
November 15th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Well, I am not saying others not to appreciate AdsForIndias and their effort. My success with adsforindians is very poor.
So I simply recommend if you have adsense, use it. Nothing can beat adsense at least today.
I am glad to know that you are happy with their service.
But I think you still missed understood one of my point.
I could have still run adsforindians in my site. But I checked multiple ad links they have. If you click on the ads by adsforindians, you will land in a page with 5 adsense code and one small box of ad.
Basically, you are driving your traffic towards a bad/useless page. Which is not good for your site users.
Yes, you can have multiple ad units, nothing wrong about it. But there should be some meaning about what kind of ad you are displaying.
Again, it is my experience. If you have better experience, let me know your site so that I can check how to best implement adsforindians.