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There seems to be a little confusion about placing ads on your weebly.com site. Weebly does not use Adsense they use a company called Adbrite.com to place their ads. Unfortunately at this time it doesn’t look like weebly has a revenue sharing program. I believe this is a major drawback to using weebly and will hurt them long term in the number of users they will attract. I will go over a few things about both programs just as an FYI. Adsense makes it nice and easy, choose the placement of your ads and put up the code and you are pretty much done. Adbite on the other hand takes a little more care to get right. You have to choose which ads you want to show, so that your audience is getting what they want.

Just a quick note about Adsense. If you aren’t getting the result that you think you should try moving your ads around and or placing them in the text of your article and you may find that you get better results. You may find that with the right placement your results can double or even triple. For further help with Adsense you can always check out the official Adsense blog. And you can sign up for Adsense here.

An issue that I have with some of the Adsense ads is the amount you can be paid per click. I have had way too many .01 clicks. You lose your visitor and you make a penny. It’s just not worth it for the long term health of your site. If you have a site that demands a high payout per click then Adsense is one of the best alternatives there is, but is your site has lower payouts per click there are better alternatives.

When you are setting up your site for Adbrite choosing the correct location for ads is just as essential as it is with Adsense. But now you have the added element of accepting advertisers and approving or denying ads. It does take a little more work on your part to run the program but there are some real benefits that make the Adbrite program worth the effort. After you have signed up and placed the code on you site you can set the Adbrite program to either automatically approve ads or manually approve ads. I recommend that you set it to manual and after they send you a list of advertisers go through the list and only approve ads that you feel will suit the audience of your site. Also take a look at the amount that each advertiser pays per click and weed out the lower paying ads. It just isn’t worth the effort in the long run if you can’t make a decent profit per click.

Adbrte also allows advertisers to pay for direct placement on your site within your ad placement. Let’s say that you have the code at the top of every page and you show 3 ads at a time. Advertisers can bid for one or all of those spots and you get paid regardless of how many people click through. You can set the pricing for the spots and be guaranteed advertising revenue from your ads every single month. That is a real benefit that Adsense does not offer, and I have done very well with selling ad spots through Adbrite on specific niche sites. If you have a blog that is niche specific I would highly recommend that you try Adbrite for your ads.