Clickbank ads in Adsense format. You also can refer others and get a percentage of their impressions too. Call it MLM or downline or whatever. It's worth a look. I signed up because I just bought a website that has the word "adsense" in the domain. These are perfect if you were banned by Adsense, have an URL with "adsense" in it, or a casino/gambling site, etc. Take a look http://www.BetterTextAds.com/22248 (yes, that's my affiliate ID)
BetterTextAds.com looks really cheap and to me a webmaster makes me not trust what there talking about... anyone have experience with them or know how safe they are to use?
I make it a rule never to sign up, give my email to, or stay for longer than 5 seconds on a website that utilizes a basic template design. I pity whoever signs up with a website that looks like some 15 year old kid "designed" (i.e. plugged in his sales pitch) it in 10 minutes.
I disagree. Fantastic programmers usually are horrible designers (but I know there's rare phenomenons who are brilliant with both hemisphers of the brain). Craigslist, del.icio.us, reddit, simpy, the original slashdot, fark, are just a few that if you placed the criteria above and didn't join because the design was horrible, you probably were late to the party. IMO. I just purchased ShareAdsense.com and needed something to go in place of the Adsense ads since the domain is against their policy (has "adsense" in it). I don't have a YPN account, and a buddy of mine referred me to BTA a few days ago. I didn't think anything of it then, but when I acquired shareadsense.com and learned of the adsense issue, I realized I had another possible solution. I placed the BTA ads on the front page of shareadsense, and will slowly be going through the others (they are all manual pages, considering putting them into a CMS).
What's even funnier is I never compared them. I did suggest that you shouldn't base your decision to participate in a site solely on design. Any site. Design is important, but shouldn't be the sole deciding factor. Good design does not equal substance. Well designed sites can and do serve as fronts for data harvesters and scamsters. Guess this is a thread about design now. (my fault, I fueled it)
i don't know what all the fuss is about here! What's wrong with it? nothing!! each to their own. Most webmasters were introduced to webmastery through Google/EBay -> ClickBank -> Affiliate Marketing -> Web design -> Development, etc, etc... yes, it may be for beginners, but it still works to this day - there are what? a billion on the net these days - i'm sure there are people who will purchase and some of those will even enjoy. btw: Sebstya - you're plugging a clickbank product on your site!!