The day after I installed adsense to my blog, I get a lovely form-message saying that I can no longer use it on my blog. My blog is fairly new, so I added some posts that were based purely on personal experience relevant to my niche- all G rated and not plagiarized. My analytics suggest no suspicious activity or unnatural clicking. The only way I can think their problem could be was that the formatting on a lot of my posts got messed up- the editor wouldn't let me make natural paragraphs w/o adding "br br" (with of course, but if I add it to the text, it thinks I'm using html) after each paragraph's end. Naturally, I previewed my changes for each post. I also promoted a few posts on twitter, +1, and FB. That generated a whopping 90 views- totally being sarcastic about the "whopping" because I know you're getting hundreds, if not thousands per day.

This news certainly didn't help since I was already trying to figure out what to do now that Amazon.com stopped allowing people in my state to be affiliates years ago. I used to be one of their associates and made some good money. I was beside myself when I found out I could still work the system with Squidoo. I just opened my account and have earned more than $6. I know that's not much. But I haven't done the WA training on it yet. My lenses are rough, like I was shooting in the dark while taking a spin behind the wheel of a car I've never driven yet.

Not planning to weep and stay angry about adsense, I signed up for Kontera. It was a breeze. I gave them my blog's address, confirmed my email, used FTP to add the plug in, set the plug in up, and within an hour I have in-text advertizing (they say it can take 24 hours) as well as a built in social bar that appears at the bottom of the browser. I submitted my other 5 blogs for approval. They say it will take 3 business days' time to get back. Since it's the weekend, it will be Wednesday that I find out.

Conclusion:

If you have experience with adsense alternatives, I'd love to read about them. Please include likes/dislikes.