AdSense Alternatives

I am often shocked by the work and the effort that many people put into their sites, filling them with links, having multiple ad sources, great graphics etc, only to then publish them on Blogspot or some other “Free” blog site.Many wonderfully talented people who do this are in fact of course paying a huge cost for the “Free Host” TANSTAAFL!

 I have asked many why and they say it is all due to costs-they can not afford to buy a domain and pay for hosting.  I can not think of why they say this is; other then that they are just not informed of what the real costs are, nor are they aware of the losses they are incurring every time someone visits one of their ads, or when someone uses a Search Engine to look for the topic their “website” is all about.

 My intention here is to educate, and hopefully convince at least one person to switch from a “free host” to a  real host.  

  I like to use a re-seller for things like this-they usually have the ear of the “big boys” more so then I, and you will be able to establish a more friendly rapport that leads to better service; imho of course.

 For those who are not yet familiar with the term “reseller”, this simply means that a large company, such as international hosting company Heart Internet out of the UK will have “affiliates” or more properly termed resellers who pay them a fee each month, from which they are given the right to act as agents; to sign up hosting packages and make their own deals. The idea is they will be able to make a profit between what they pay the host and what the collect in fees from there clients. This is the sort of relationship I have with my host and it serves me well, so much that I recently moved all my hosting to them.

 As you can clearly see by the ads on this page it is my hope that readers occasionally will find an interest in one of the products and services (only visit one if your interest is genuine) and at that time I earn a small fee. Now this is where so many people who use “Free” hosts lose a huge amount of income-estimated at between 20 to 65%.;If I am paid $100.00  for a click a person with the same ad and same traffic only on Blogspot site only will earn 35 to 80 cents, most I would think would get 50 cents.

 Then there is the cost of NEVER being able to obtain PageRank, which will mean less traffic from Search engines, fewer direct advertisers and they lose of many other income opportunities.

 I put this to you-when it is possible to buy an existing domain name, possibly with backlinks and even some with traffic for as little as 99 cents at an auction often with 30 days of free hosting (be sure to ask vendor, do not take my word) why would anyone continue to lose money by using a “free host”?