Driving Traffic thru PSAs

Don’t let your blog’s AdSense ad space go to waste by letting Public Service Ads take some of the airtime. Why not make your own ads for special entries or other sites you own? This can be achieved by using the optional Alternate URL feature in your AdSense code.

google_alternate_ad_url = “http://”

What you need to do is create a new HTML page in your site where you place your own ads. This new page will be bare except for your own image ad or text ads (with links of course). Make sure that the ads on this page will use the same size and layout as the one your use for AdSense.

Now you can include this inside your AdSense codes:

google_alternate_ad_url = “http://domain.com/alternate.html”

Now, everytime a PSA would have to appear in your ads, this alternate URL will display instead. You can create an ad to direct traffic to another section of your blog or to an entirely new blog you want to promote. That’s another click or two towards your blog which could translate to yet another potential AdSense click.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

8 Comments

Damien says:

19 years ago

I found a service the other day that provides replacements for the PSAs so I signed up for it. I tend to get PSAs on my forum and also for the firs hour or two when a new post goes up (until the crawler reads it). The company is called Alternate URL (and does exactly what it says on the tin lol) here’s the address…

http://www.alternateurl.com (Affiliate link, hope you dont mind!)

Damien

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Marc says:

19 years ago

Yuga, you may also want to try having an affiliate banner ad instead of a PSA.. sign up na sa CJ.com! :)
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Abe Olandres says:

19 years ago

@ Damien

Got some feedback that the service sucks. Maybe very slow or always down?

@ Marc

Used to do that before, i.e. using Clicksor. Didn’t work much as I only earned a buck or two.
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cosa says:

19 years ago

AlternateURL is not good. 90% of the ads displayed are not what I want (from the category I’ve selected upon registration). The CPC is very poor too. I got 200 clicks and earn less than $1.5. Imagine how much I can get from AdSense with that many clicks :p

Now I’m using my own AdSense-style ads to replace PSA. I promote my other blogs and it works quite good so far :)
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aybabtu says:

19 years ago

If you guys are unhappy with the less then stellar ads produced by AlternateURL.com then check out Alternate-URL-Ads.com (http://www.alternate-url-ads.com/).

These guys provide dynamic contextual and geo-targetting for SearchFeed ads.
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aybabtu says:

19 years ago

Sorry I neglected to include a link Alternate URL Ads.
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John says:

18 years ago

The service http://www.alternateurl.com has negative comments on another page here.
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13 years ago

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