Having problems supporting blog - Alternatives to adwords?

[Mavor]

Hi all is there any alternative to using adwords to support my blog?

I have a medium amount of traffic on my blog and I don't want to cheapen the experience with advertisements all over the page. Do I have any other options? Has anyone had luck using donations, subscriptions, or periodic donations? Are there any other services out there?

[stephen todd]

Originally Posted by Mavor

Hi all is there any alternative to using adwords to support my blog?

I have a medium amount of traffic on my blog and I don't want to cheapen the experience with advertisements all over the page. Do I have any other options? Has anyone had luck using donations, subscriptions, or periodic donations? Are there any other services out there?

You don't want more than 1 adsense ad block per page anyway - just position the adsense large rectangle ad block below the header and above the first post - I use it on all my sites

The occasional in-post ad will be acceptable to just about everyone as long as it's relevant to the post content

Web advertising is now a fact of life - and the big advertisers are migrating to web advertising, away from print media, radio, TV - so people are just going to have to accept it, or find something else to look at

[chasesagum]

I'm not sure what your blog's topic is on. But what I like to do is build up an email list of subscribers to my blog. You can use a service like MailChimp or Aweber or something. But the idea is that if your content is good enough and helpful enough to your readers, they will subscribe to your email newsletter.

From there, you can use affiliate marketing relationships with vendors to advertise highly targeted products/services to those people in your list. This is a lot more work than just putting up Adsense, but the pay off is much higher!