The correct answer is NO there is no other contextual advertising program that pays better than Adsense. Case closed. If you want to make more money then you'll need to learn how to effectively promote pay per sale and cpa offers.
Interesting! It sounds like learning to use the tool very well we want to use to live on is most important!
I have tried a few ad programs in the past and adsense paid the most per click the rest were way under $1 per click.
AdSense is the best but if you notice that a page is doing well you can try CPA offers as well. That applies for a narrow variety of topics though. Affiliate programs tend to give webmasters a very small cut of what they're actually worth.
As to my knowledge there are many contextual programs but many have one or the other bugs in them. I knew about Adbrite as my anti-virus detected it as virus or something like infection. With rest you wouldn't get much network of advertisers joined with them so overall you should stay with adsense. IT will take time for you to make money from them but they are best in this field.
If you want something that can beat adsense in earnings for yourself, you must find value in yourself. For example, learn and practice until you are a master of adwords. That's when you can use adwords to generate affiliate commissions which are usually much better than adsense earnings. The value is yourself. Unless you yourself can surpass relying on adsense, you can't find anything better than it.
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