Do you live in Argentina, Chile, China (Mainland), Colombia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, or Romania? If you do, there is a new option for receiving your Adsense payments. You can now receive your payments through Western Union with Western Union Quick Cash.

Payments will be available for pick up from an agent the day after they are issued and it’s free. That’s means you don’t have to wait for a cheque to arrive, be cleared by your bank and potentially lose out on a bit of your earnings with associated bank charges.

The payment method is only available to individual payee names and not to businesses and as per Western Union TOS you will need your ID to pick up the cash. Payments are made out in US dollars and must be picked up within 35 days of issuance. If after this time period you have not collected the money it is put on hold and credited back to your Adsense account.

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It has been about 135 days since I put Kontera ContentLink™ in-text ads on my blog. Within this time period I have been comparing the revenue generated from it to Adsense.

Over the first half of the trial period earnings between the two were just about on par with Adsense coming out on top. Since then, there has been a very big drop in Kontera earnings. I can’t even begin to imagine how long it would take to reach the US$100 pay out minimum.

I have noticed an increase in the number of bloggers who say they do not like Kontera at all. Some go to the extent of not bothering to read blogs that displays these ads. I may be starting to see more bloggers say they don’t like it as I am reading through more and more blogs as days go by.

Bottom line is, Kontera is not for me and it is gone!

Many people have been banned from or have a really big fear of being banned from Adsense. If it has happened or it does happen, it’s not the end of the world. There are so many other advertising channels that can be used to earn money from advertising.

Here is a short list of a few options to take into consideration when Adsense is no longer an option or you are just looking for something different:

AdBrite
AdJungle
BidVertiser
Chitika
CrispAds
Kontera
Value Click Media
Yahoo Publisher Network

A little experimentation may be a good idea – what works for one site may not work for another. You may not make money right from the get go. Keep in mind that whatever you make is something that you did not have before. Stay tuned for more advertising options.

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On the 23rd of May I put up a post – To Kontera or not? which briefly outlined what Kontera is, people’s thoughts on it and my little experiment of comparing it to Google’s Adsense.

It has been just over a couple of months since I implemented Kontera and its has been running pretty good. I have been comparing revenue earnings on a week by week basis from Adsense and Kontera (I will not publish the actual figures. All I will say is that they are not bad). Kontera did not do anywhere near as badly as what people out there say. In total the earnings were just under Adsense earnings but there were a couple of weeks where Kontera came out on top.

In my books Kontera is a good revenue earner and in the meanwhile is here to stay.

Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN) is a contextual based advertising program providing cost per click contextual advertising, similar to Google Adsense. YPN has a unique feature, Ad Targeting which allows you to identify the types of ads that you think your visitors will find appealing and target these specific ads towards them.

It is currently not available for non-US publishers but is expected to available to publishers outside the US once it comes out of Beta (hopefully in the very near future). I am waiting for this to happen so I can try it out myself and cycle it with AdSense.

Here are a couple of points of interest about YPN:

1) Their payments options include PayPal (which is currently not available with AdSense). The minimum required for you as a publisher to receive payment via PayPal is $50. Their other forms of payment require you to have a minimum of $100.

When YPN goes international it will save non-US publishers the trouble of cashing foreign cheques and losing a bit of publisher revenue to associated bank charges.

2) YPN has a Compliance Manager which alerts you when you violate any terms of service. It not only alerts you of a violation but also the specific problem and its location. Your YPN account will be flagged and you are given a chance to resolve any issues before your account is suspended. This is a big point of difference to Adsense who do not offer this feature.

For those of you who can, why not try it out and see how things go. If you do sign up please stop by again and let me know how things are working out.

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A few days ago I put up Kontera ContentLink in-text ads as a source of revenue.
Kontera’s ContentLink basically turns certain keywords from your web page into a link to a txt ad from Kontera’s advertisers.

There are quite a few Kontera advocates who are touting it as the next big thing after Google’s Adsense. On the other hand there are others who are not so big on Kontera for a number of reasons. They range from it not generating nowhere as much revenue as Adsense and slowing page downloads.

I decided to put up ContentLinks and let myself be the judge of that. I will give it a go for a little while and see where it takes me.