Alternate URL Ads Development Blog

Alternate URL Ads and Cool-N-Save

2008-02-22T10:53:00.000-08:00

Thanks to our new sponsor, Cool-N-Save, we've been able to start brand new set of upgrades to Alternate URL Ads. Best news yet folks is - the first upgrade is already in place.

If you haven't noticed yet all your AUA served ads should be loading in more streamlined manner. We'll be quiet on the details for now and wait and see which of our more observant users identify the upgrade.

AUA agreed to let Cool-N-Save sponsor AUA after learning more about their product. In our opinion it could be revolutionary. The Cool-N-Save device costs just $99.95 and can potentially save you up to 30% on your AC electric bill each month.

I personally live in Southern California where it can get hot and according to their calculator the savings I'd get in my first month of usage more that cover the cost of the device.

Beta Testing: Lightbox

2007-04-18T13:34:00.000-07:00

We are currently beta testing our new lightbox feature. Stay tuned for more information.

Revised Adserver Setup

2007-04-18T08:14:00.000-07:00

We've completed our migration to MediaTemple for all our ad serving needs. This should provide a nice boost in overall network performance.

Yikes ..

2006-09-05T11:16:00.000-07:00

It appears that our New Partners page is malfunctioning. (Thx Brian)

Now serving ads for over 6K sites!

2006-09-05T11:13:00.000-07:00

Alternate URL Ads broke the 6,000 website mark over this past labor day weekend. Very cool. If you haven't joined our network yet the important question is "Why not?"

Alternate URL Ads is a 100% free service that can only improve your Google AdSense revenues! Are you curious how much money you may be losing? Sign-up today!

When is a click not a click? from Fortune Magazine

2006-08-22T09:33:00.000-07:00

While skimming popurls I noticied an interesting article worth sharing, When is a click not a click?

"Although the Internet may be the most measurable of advertising media, advertisers and Web sites are actually having huge battles because they can't agree on what they should be counting."

Original Story

2006-08-16T16:30:00.000-07:00

Mark today down on your calendar folks. Alternate URL Ads is now serving ads for over 5,000 unique domains. Sweet.

2006-08-16T16:19:00.000-07:00

With Google Analytics finally opening itself up (via Free Webmaster Tools > Original Story) we decided to try integrating it with Alternate URL Ads. As long as we aren't causing undue slow down it may prove interesting.

2006-08-15T15:08:00.000-07:00

Blog Television the popular video aggregator/search website has joined the ranks of Alternate URL Ads powered websites. BTV has created their own "custom" integration which blends BTV's house ads with Alternate URL Ads.

2006-08-15T14:33:00.000-07:00

We're sprinting towards the 5,000 partner website mark folks. At the time of this blog entry we've already reached 4,786 partners.

2006-08-15T14:32:00.000-07:00

We've just finished implementing a new set of software upgrades to compliment our new hardware upgrades. We are expecting some performance improvements across the board.

2006-08-14T19:00:00.000-07:00

While we haven't found any issues with the latest round of hardware upgrades we want to encourage our users to submit any "oddities" that they encounter.

You can drop us a line at or use the comment feature of this blog.

2006-08-14T18:56:00.000-07:00

Video Buzz is another great example of a 100% Alternate URL Ads powered contextual advertising set-up.

So what does Video Buzz do? Video Buzz is a website that tracks the "buzziest" topics and then identifies associated streaming video clips.

2006-08-14T18:35:00.000-07:00

People love sharks. Shark TV shows, shark movies, whatever, thus it seems to reason people like shark websites as well right?

Shark Attack Photos is a new Alternate URL Ads partner website that capitalizes on peoples innate interest of all things shark. We decided to feature them on the AUA blog as an example of a website that is using Alternate URL Ads as their only contextual ad system. That's right, no Google AdSense.

Curious about how you can try this Alternate URL Ads sans Google AdSense set-up on your website? Why not review our quick tutorial.

2006-08-14T17:01:00.000-07:00

We've completed the first stage of our hardware upgrades! After a bit of QA testing we'll be moving on to Phase II.

2006-08-14T08:23:00.000-07:00

Thanks to you, our partners, Alternate URL Ads has recently experienced some rapid growth. To improve our infrastructure we will be implementing hardware upgrades throughout the week.

2006-08-02T10:59:00.000-07:00

All Home Directory, a human edited directory of all things home, is a new Alternate URL Ads partner website. We like All Home Directory because they are taking advantage of Alternate URL Ad Link Units.

2006-07-31T09:40:00.000-07:00

We've broken through 3,500 websites and have no sign of slowing down yet! Join today and start making more money with your Google AdSense, Chitika or similar PPC program. We guarantee you can only improve your revenues using Alternate URL Ads!

Haven't signed up yet? Sign-up for Alternate URL Ads today!

Already a partner? Get your AUA Affiliate Code and earn more!

2006-07-26T18:08:00.000-07:00

While general office activity has prevented me blogging about new Alternate URL Ads partners I don't want to be sending out the wrong impression. Interestingly enough AUA is now serving ads for almost 3,500 different websites (3,446 at the time of this entry!).

2006-07-22T10:03:00.000-07:00

Updates: AUA is now a beta test site for Odin Assemble v3.0. We've also added a new dedicated image server via Odin Distribute to improve the speed of the website.

2006-07-19T14:34:00.000-07:00

We broke through the 3,000 website marker today. For those new to the blog, that's over 3,000 unique websites that serve Alternate URL Ads. Help us keep up the growth by telling your fellow bloggers and webmasters about us and you can earn 10% of their revenue share for life.

You can refer as many people as you like and since you get the referral credit for life all your affiliate referrals will keep aggregating over time.

2006-07-18T14:35:00.000-07:00

AUA is getting close to serving ads for over 3,000 unique websites. At the time of this blog entry we are already serving ads for 2,967 websites!

Have you signed-up yet?

2006-07-18T14:30:00.000-07:00

We'd like to announce that Alternate URL Ads now supports Google AdSense Link Units. Now you can use AUA to improve your revenue not just on Google AdSense Ad Units but for Google AdSense Link Units as well.

This update introduces six new unique link unit ad units. The new link units come in the following dimensions.

728 x 15 Horizontal
468 x 15 Horizontal
200 x 90 Vertical
180 x 90 Vertical
160 x 90 Vertical
120 x 90 Vertical

Please note that we currently do not support the Google AdSense 4/5 page per unit option.

2006-07-17T11:42:00.000-07:00

What's almost as good as new Alternate URL Ads partners? Link love from people recognizing the value of the Alternate URL Ads service! The Seeking Revenue blog recently included Alternate URL Ads in a list of "Revenue Source Alternatives."

(I wonder how many of the other services listed offer fully automatic contextual ads, not to mention geo-targetted ads?)

2006-07-17T09:42:00.000-07:00

RSS to JavaScript, a popular atom, rdf and rss conversion tool, has now joined the ranks of Alternate URL Ads partners. With a sub 50K Alexa score, RSS to JavaScript, is just the type of web-site we like to see joining up!