Passive Income Part 5: Advertising Reviews

PPC Overview

PPC, or Pay Per Click Advertising, is a form of revenue that is based off how many times that people clicks on your ads that you have placed on your site. Usually, most of these programs pay about $0.01 to $0.10 per click, though sometimes they pay more. The benefit to these revenue streams is that they are truly passive all around. However, they may not be fully viable as a replaceable income that you an use to live on. Though, some of these sites will never really fully realize the income potential from these sources of income.

Adsense

This is the biggest player on the market. Their payout is $100, though it takes up to 1 year or more to be able to get that cash out from them. However, you also have to wait up to an extra 60 days after you reached that cash out. The typical payouts per click tends to be low around $0.01 to $0.25. Its a popular and cheap alternative that a person can use towards building a revenue stream. That is something that a lot of sites have been doing towards making a decent side hustle towards at least paying for the hosting and maybe a little more. Some individuals may be able to turn this into a decent income via the amount of traffic that they have built up on numerous different sites.

Chikita

Chitika is one of the biggest competitors to Adsense. Payouts can be similar to Adsense but sometimes can payout a lot higher than what you would find on the Adsense site. There are three advantages to this particular PPC site: 1. You can refer people to earn a little more from the income; 2. They can pay into your Paypal account; 3. They can payout at $10 as opposed to $100.

However, don't think that this company is all sunshine. You still need to figure out how to build up some traffic to be able to make this a decent and viable income stream. Additionally, they may take a while to payout your earnings as well since they pay on a net-30 timeframe. However, if you are able to refer a few individuals and also figure out how to make this a viable income for yourself, you may get a better payout from this than Adsense.

Conclusion

My closing thoughts are these: before trying to use these programs, make sure that you focus on building up some traffic to your sites as well. This will help you to be able to have a better chance of getting referrals and also being able to get more clicks on these programs.