If you're frustrated because you're trying to earn extra money with your web pages, and you're looking to get more than the pennies per click that the contextual ad services give you ...

or if you want to control the ads that are shown on your pages (they are your pages, after all), then I can recommend the perfect solution:

Ad Box Lite displays ads in the familiar styles that Google AdSense uses, which the vast majority of Internet searchers are familiar and comfortable with. Whether you prefer your ads to be banners, skyscrapers, square or rectangular blocks, or links, you can do it all with AdBoxLite.

Additionally, you can choose the colors of your backgrounds, borders, titles, descriptions, and links, just like with the other services, in order to blend the ads into your page design.

And there are no restrictions (they are YOUR pages, after all). If you want to display 2 sets of links, you can. If you want to display more than 3 rectangles, you can. If you want to put images beside your ads, you can. You can make your pages as pleasant or as ugly as you choose, they are your pages, after all.

And the best thing is, you get to choose the ads that are shown. No longer are you at the mercy of a robot that may think that your ad about truck caps is actually about baseball caps or milk caps. You know what your page is about, so you choose the ads that are the best fit for your audience.

And since you get to choose the ads, you may decide to choose ads that the robots wouldn't even think about. Is your page about motorcycles? Then you might want to have an ad for motorcycle insurance, and another for motorcycle helmets, and another pointing to eBay auctions for motorcycle tires, and ... well you get the idea. Contextual ads are fine to a point, but there's a point where you like to have more control.

They are your pages, after all.

With the other contextual ad services, the more ads you show, the lower your average payout. That is because normally the highest paying ad is in the #1 position, so if you display 4 ads, you get the 4 highest paying advertisers. If you show 3 ad blocks, the other 2 will have advertisers that don't pay as much for a click, right?

With AdBoxLite, you get to choose what merchants you want ads for. If you can find 12 high paying advertisers that meet your criteria, go for it!

Depending on your needs, the merchants you're affiliated with, and the products you have in your own inventory (your products or resell rights products), you can configure AdBoxLite to display exactly what you want your visitors to see. If you have more ads configured than will fit into the ad block, AdBoxLite will randomly show them from the database.

When configuring AdBoxLite (it has a simple web based interface), you enter ads based on category. Part of the short snippet of javascript that you paste onto your landing page includes a category code. So if you wanted to ensure that you get different ads in each ad block, you would encode one set of ads with one category code, and the others with a different category code. The examples that I show below do not have that setup, but again, you have complete control over what gets shown on your pages.

And did I mention that AdBoxLite is completely free of charge for savvy Internet marketers that have found their way to this page. Yes, this is your lucky day, replace Ad Cents with Ad Dollars!

Here's an example of the different styles of ads (and you can even change the stylesheet to vary fonts or font sizes if you wish, to more perfectly blend your ads into your pages):

As you can see, you have a huge amount of flexibility. Additionally, of course, you can vary the colors of the borders, text, titles, background, as you see fit.