Best adsense sharing site - how to select one that will get most revenue for you?

There exist more than 100 adsense revenue sharing sites and evaluating each and every one individually might be a bit difficult. Following are some widely known parameters against which you should evaluate the adsense revenue sharing site like:

1. Page rank
2. Traffic (generally coincides with pagerank)
3. Niche (if there is some particular domain/field of your interest for which there exists a community)
4. % revenue share (How much the site is sharing with its members? Is the sharing lifelong?)
5. Is it free to join?
6. Are there any more avenues for earning apart from adsense revenue share?
7. Do you retain the right to your articles? (Are you allowed to delete or republish your article if you want to?)
8. Does it provide me some statistics to how my articles are performing or does it allow to integrate with statcounter or google analytics?
9. Does the site allow you to place back links to your own websites/blogs or affiliate links? Is the backlink do follow or no follow? (Unfortunately, some sites allow a no follow back link which google doesn't count as a back link and you don't get any benefit in google's eyes.)
10. Does the site show ads to its own members? (Like Flixya doesn't and you miss out a lot of revenue there!)
11. The community (How helping is the community? Are they willing to help out each other?)
12. A co-operative administration (New questions come up all the time. Is the administration co-operative enough?)

But one parameter which is mostly missed out by many is the "Ad coverage" that the site gets. Though mostly it  depends on the resource that it should be keyword optimized, should use keywords in demand by the advertisers etc. but the site also happens to be a parameter. Like if it is a very popular site, some advertisers will specifically configure their ads to appear on that site (Yes, Google Adwords has provision for that). While if there is a site which gets traffic mainly from the set of people that might not be the target customers for advertisers, he might as well block those sites from showing his ads.

One bottleneck here is that unlike the above widely accepted parameters, "Ad coverage" for sites is not easily available or rather, it is actually different for different types of resources/articles. So you might have to check them individually for yourself and for your niche of articles. In either case, it is always worth to keep a track of these statistics.

This in fact should be a major consideration while considering the % share given by the revenue sharing site. For example, if the site gives 90% revenue share but the ad coverage you are getting there is just 50% (weird but trust me, it happens), then effectively you are getting just 45% times your ad shown or bluntly put, 45% share! And then, there is another site which has a pretty good ad coverage of about 95% because of its popularity but gives just a 60% share (which accounts to 57% effectively), then it is sort of obvious now as to which site will be best for you.

With initial revenue share numbers as different as 100% and 60%, it boils down to 45% and 57% and dramatically reverses the earning trend that you might actually observe as compared to what you expected.

Many a times, it might be difficult to get the best of all the parameters. Optimizing the major ones for you might be the best bet!

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