Sponsors, are a great way make some money to help pay the bills.
Below is a list of honest companies that will pay you to place banners on your
site. Some of these companies are for small sites, others accept only sites that receive a
minimum number of page views. These companies will pay you based on click-through, sales,
impressions generated, or simply help you sell advertising space on your website and take
commission.
Ad
Resource - Web Advertising & Marketing Resources & Secrets - Ad Resource
offers an extensive price guide about internet advertising, including what the Top 100
sites are charging. This site also has a large number of web advertising related links.
AssociatePrograms - A large
collection of valuable information and links related to companies that offer commission
based advertising.
BurstMedia - Represents sites that
generate 5000 or more impressions per month and have their own domain name. They
have 3 types of advertising, default ads (pay per lead), remnant ads ($3-5 CPM or 20-50
cents/clickthrough) and premium ads ($10-$20 CPM). They take between 30-50% commission of
that, depending on how long you sign up for. $20 payout level.
CashPile - A directory of
Affiliate/Commission and Pay per click programs.
ClickTrade
- ClickTrade allows you to easily reward other Web site owners for linking to your site by
setting up your own link partner program. They also have several hundred sites that will
pay you by the click for linking to them. Recommended.
Eads - Has a variety of automatically
rotating banners under several different categories. They pay 5 cents per clickthrough.
The number of click-throughs you receive is reported at the end of the month, however they
do not tell you how many times the ads were viewed. $10 payout level. Not Recommended.
FlyCast - Helps you sell advertising
based on impressions, and puts up a banner rotation system on your website. You must
generate at least 100,000 impressions monthly to be eligible. They take 20% commission.
Mark
Welch's Web Site Banner Advertising site - A great site about ad networks, brokers,
exchanges, pay-per-click and pay-per-sale (commission) ads, counters, trackers, software,
and MUCH MORE.
Safe-Audit
- Great service, provides lots of banners for you to host that you choose, the money you
get per click-through varies from 2 to 40 cents (for Multi-Clicks) with an
average of 15 cents a click, plus some companies pay you by the number of people that sign
up for something. The statistics are updated in real time so you can see how well each
banner is preforming in terms of click-throughs and impressions. $10 payout level, they
take 20% commission. Full
Review.
Update: Safe Audit has been
having problems paying host sites, severe server problems, an has not been replying to
email. My suggestion is to avoid them and sign up with TeknoSurf instead.
Refer-It - A huge
list of "associate" programs, where you get a percentage of sales coming from
your site.
TeknoSurf -
A new pay per click network offering up to 20 cents per clickthrough. They provide
comprehensive statistics, an optimization system that serves the best preforming ads on
your site and many other great features. $25 Payout.
ValueClick
- You get 6 to 12 cents per click-through depending on how many click-throughs your site
produces. They provide you with a live account tracking. You get paid when you have
accumulated $50 or more.
