Try something like Tribal Fusion, Casle Media, Valueclikc, PixFuture at first and then if you not accepted by one of them, try Right Media partners like CPXinteractive, Adperium, Xtendmedia.
I used Adbrite, Infolinks and Chitika. Adbrite and infolinks are giving same Revenue. And chitika is very bad.
I would not say so. There are plenty networks doing way better than Adsense. However, for small sites like this dietplansforwomens (dot) net they simply might not accept.
eBay pulled ads from an autoblog that I had running and I was stuck look for advertisers. I wish I would have seen this thread then. Never heard of infolinks and I definitely need to work on setting up adbrite on a few sites. I tried chitika once, but I didn't have enough traffic to make revenue.
The best alternative I've had has been Adbrite, and Adsense likes sites that are at least 6 months old. I used Adbrite for awhile to allow the site, inbound links, and other metrics to mature before applying to adsense.
I joined in Tagjunction.com. It is paying very fast. I got paid on Net 10 basis. I tried other networks also but got disappointed by their payments. I suggest you to go for Tag Junction.
Well for me adbrite is similar. Tried it back then, and it's working fine. Infolinks might work for you too.
i still think there no competitor to Adsense, as they have huge advertiser base which pay top dollars for ads
There are a lot of AdSense alternatives. Try Yahoo! .Publisher Network and Microsoft adCenter first Chitika, etc later. Success for you.