8 Best PPC Advertising Networks to Monetize Your Blog [2015 Edition]

Monetizing a blog with ad publishing network is the first level of earning which may take quite few months for any blogger to get started with various advertising methods PPC/CPC or CPM. Amongst all the categories of ad publishing—earning depends on Content, Traffic, Page CTR, Ad RPM, Bounce Rate etc. parameters. Some websites may generate more clicks with lower RPM rate and some fewer clicks but huge RPM rate. So these two different conditions define which ad network is perfectly suited for these two sites. Suppose the first website which generates more clicks than fewer RPM rate can perform well with advertising network who pays on PPC formula again for second website CPM ad network will perform ultimate to maximize revenue skyrocket.

So you can understand that website performance can help you to decide which ad network is best for your blog or site. I have seen may webmasters pull thousands of bucks with CPM ad networks out of Google Adsense[King of ad publisher] who pays on PPC formula.

Today's guide I will show you my 8 favorite lists of PPC and CPM advertising networks to monetize your newly launched blog.

Google Adsense

Adsense dominates over millions of advertisers all over the world using AdWords to list their products and services while Google adopt various processes to deliver these ads online. Amongst all of the Google's treasury to distribute ads majority are handled by Adsense [though Google ads appear on Search, Custom Search, Gmail, News, Blogs and other different places belong to Google products]

Adsense is solely a PPC [Pay-per-click] or CPC [Cost-per-click] ad network which mainly focuses on websites to distribute ads based on content. There are lots of technologies Adsense uses to provide highly targeting, engaging and quality ads that perfectly suite a site's content and audience so that more feasibility of clicks.

Adsense uses crawler which is widely known as Adsense Crawler more similar to Google Crawler though there are prime differences between Adsense and Google Crawler are (1) Adsense crawler crawls headlines, texts, links to focus on keywords to deliver more relevant ads whereas
(2) Google crawler indexes all resources of a site to visible on search engines in terms of targeted search queries.

To get Adsense account approved is a bit tough these days when Google Adsense measures lots of things before including any website in their network. Here are some useful guides help you to get started with Google Adsense

Relevant Tutorials of Google Adsense:

Media.net

A Yahoo and Bing enterprise is widely famous as working with contextual ads powered by Media.net which measures ad impressions of a site and pay money on RPM [Revenue per thousand impression] method. Reasons there are many websites are benefited from Media.net's ads are "people are less likely to click on Ads though the impression rate remains higher so webmasters utilize this effort to monetize their blogs with CPM ads [i.e. Media.net] rather CPC ads [i.e. Adsense]"

Here are quite few useful guides to get your started with Media.net

Bidvertiser

Not so famous as the previous twos but yet works better with slow traffic site having quality traffic, reduced bounce rate and quality content. Bidvertiser provides both text, image, animated, flash ads though they won't provide highly targeted and quality ads because of limited advertisers comparing to Adsense or Media.net but you can still pull up maximum earning with websites not approved with Adsense. The minimum payout of Bidvertiser is $100 and they pay through Paypal, Check.

Chitika

Over 300K publisher websites are already listed on Chitika's ad inventory which provide highly targeted ads relevant to website content, target audience and traffic. You will have to start with primary membership with Chitika but don't worry once your earnings exceed their minimum limit you will be upgraded to secondary membership providing with high quality ads with more CPC rate.

Vibrant Media

Another well-known CPC ad network at this time providing quality ads from a big lists of their brand advertisers. The CPC rates of VM are among the highest in the industry, but the catch is that they just don’t let any website join in the fun. You have to prove your site as a premium publisher with quality content, traffic, and audience. Sites including content like adult, gambling, drugs, profanity, hate speech, violence will never be approved through VM so they have quite few restrictions upon publishers you will get on Terms of use.

Infolinks

Infolinks is a CPC based ad network which was on top of the choice to blog publishers but today their CPC rate is recorded as the lowest comparing other ad networks is the reason many blog publishers avoid these ads. If you have blog having thousands of articles and not so more internal links then you can maximize earnings with Infolinks ads but blogs have huge internal links should avoid Infolinks in order to boost CTR.

The minimum payout of Infolinks is $50 via Paypal.

Exit Junction

Exit Junction is considered another best CPC ad network which is such an ad network work for many website owners, bounced traffic [when visitors leave your site frequently and never come back]. Exit Junction can supplement your CPC advertising income by showing these visitors clickable ads so that you can generate money. When exit junction is installed on your site your visitors click on the back button after seeing the landing page they don’t go straight back to the search engine page results they usually came from. Instead, they are taken to a list of sponsored results based on the keywords they typed.

The installation procedure is quite easy and in handy process.

PocketCents

It's pretty useful ad network with fixed rates of CPC for blog publishers. There's no sign up or upfront costs but there's restrictions regarding page views per month. You earn more from plain-text, hybrid, banner, and video-advertisements. Pocketcents charges $0.25 for advertisers on rough and pays publishers closely $0.15 per click.

Conclusion

Cost per click advertising network works fine with blog publishers because of higher page CTR, RPM rates and more revenue per click. Amongst all the ad networks listed above I recommend you going through Google Adsense first then Media.net and sequentially other networks mainly depend upon your blog site quality.

If you're approved with Google Adsense then monetize this ad network otherwise try out Media.net. Do let me know how you liked this article.

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