Contenture – The Anti-Ad Network

If you want to make money from a blog you have a limited number of options.  The most popular approach is to run ads – typically using an ad network like Google’s AdSense.  Many bloggers also join affiliate programs and post links and banners for those programs – but to the visitor it is just more ads.  You can also charge a subscription fee – but you will have to have some truly unique content to pull that off and also the systems to handle the ecommerce.  So your primary options are to run ads and annoy your visitors or collect money from and annoy your visitors.

Next week, Contenture is launching what they call the “anti-ad network.”  The basic idea is that you would add a subscription component to your blog/website.  You would offer some type of premium benefits to visitors who are signed up with Contenture….

Read the full article at Blogging Tips.