• Google AdSense: AdSense is a contextual advertising program for which publishers simply have to add a piece of code to their sites that helps Google analyze what your page is about so they can serve Ads on that topic. AdSense also allows you to earn money by using Google Search on your site that will display relevant Ads when visitors search on your site. AdSense also has a referral program that allows you to earn by recommending various products like Firefox toolbar, AdSense, Adwords, etc.
• Text Link Ads: Text Link Ads will help you sell simple text links on your site easily. The monthly link price will depend on factors like your Google Pagerank and Alexa rank. As a new Advertiser on Text Link Ads you are eligible for $100 in FREE Links.Text Link Ads has an affiliate program that will pay you $25 for any referred visitor that is accepted into their publisher program and installs the advertising script on their site for seven days. If you refer an advertiser who purchases an advertisement, the referral will appear in your affiliate account within 24 hours.For more info, read my Text Link Ads Review.
• Chitika eMiniMalls: Chitika eMiniMalls is a cost per click advertising program that will perform particularly well for product related sites.
• Vizu Answers: Vizu Answers helps you earn money from your site by placing interactive Polls on desired topics. They pay you based on CPM (Cost per thousand impressions), and you even get to set the minimum CPM rate for each poll you put up on your web site.
• ReviewMe: Pays you to review products and services on your site. You control what you review.
• Kontera: Kontera’s ContentLink provides in-text advertising solution that monetizes your content in real-time, enabling an incremental increase in ad revenue by providing a new source of untapped ad inventory that does not compete with the other ad programs running on the site. ContentLink also creates a valuable user experience by serving relevant and informational ads that match the user’s interest and frame of mind.ContentLink requires your site to have a minimum of 500,000 pageview per month, but I have seen them accepting new sites with lower pageviews.
• FeedBurner Ad Network (FAN): FAN adds CPM ads to your feed. You may need around 500 RSS readers to get accepted.
• Software Judge: They will pay you up to $50 to review software.
• Vibrant Media: You can sign up with them to display relevant in-text ads if your web site delivers more than 500,000 page views of text based content a month.
• Yahoo Publisher Network- Displays ads that are relevant to the content of your site. They are CPC based just like AdSense.
• Pay Per Post – Write about web sites, products, services, and companies and earn cash for providing your opinion and valuable feedback to advertisers.
• BlogAds – BlogAds lets you set the price and helps you find advertisers for your blog easily.To perform better with BlogAds, place it at a more prominent position on your blog.

Having to log into 20 different accounts to view page impressions and so on was not working. So I then stumbled upon a free ad server for web publishers, called OpenX. It allows users, web developers and advertisers to take control of their advertising. Web developers have gone as  far as using this server system to create their very own affiliate programs.

OpenX carry’s the most advance tracking system I have ever seen in a open source software. Giving in depth tracking to all your campaigns.

Here is a small break down of what OpenX can do for you!

o    Try new ad networks quickly and easily
o    Deliver direct ad sales reliably
o    Rotate banners on your site
o    Compare the performance of different ads and networks
o    Meet all your advertisers’ needs
o    Optimise ad revenue using rich targeting options
o    Manage all your websites from one place
o    Integrate with other applications
o    Run affiliate, advertiser and publisher networks
o    Scale to billions of ads each month
o    Customize the ad server to suit your needs
o    Control your technology costs

And so much more.

Download OpenX Here

Traffic Synergy has many international campaigns that you may market on your website, but some of them explicitly say “only US traffic”.

All three top Affiliate Networks use the same software, namely Directtrack so once you have worked out how to use one you know them all.

So If you would like to earn a it extra from your website, to cover those hosting fees Visit Traffic Synergy!

I was rather surprised at how many campaigns they had listed from all sorts of categories, so there should be no problem finding a advert to match your website.

Campaigns
Pay per Click (Get 50c if someone clicks on the banner or link)
Pay per sale (earn an amount once sale has completed)
Pay per Lead (earn an amount for every lead, usually its a form that the person must fill in)

I know that its hard selling advertising space if you have a new website, the best is to sign up to affiliate programs and earn immediately!