Clicksor is a new program from Yesup, the company behind PayPopUp. The program is based on CPC text advertisements superficially similar to Google AdSense, but... well, worse.

The basic premise is that you sign up, add your site(s) - you can have more than one, and tracking is separate - define your keywords and then place your ad codes. The step about defining keywords is why this program is significantly worse than Google AdSense. Where AdSense dynamically determines the appropriate keywords based on the contents of your pages (resulting in automatic per-page targeting), Clicksor's scheme has you put in every possible relevant keyword you can think of and hope for the best. (They emailed us a couple of times suggesting that we don't have enough keywords defined - they recommend at least 100 per site.)

Because the keywords are pre-defined and site-wide, not page-specific, and because Clicksor has nowhere near as many advertisers as Google, the ads you will be seeing will not generally be very well targeted (unless you have a site about Hosting, Viagra or Gambling). Lack of advertisers also means that bid prices are generally kept fairly low - we are seeing a measely 3 cents per click on average, though this may vary with keywords.

Clicksor's code can be placed in two formats - traditional banners, or inline links. The banners come in pretty much all formats that Google AdSense offers, making this program a decent candidate for AdSense defaults (though we suggest using a CPM program for the more common formats). Each banner will show one or a few text ads depending on the size of the format.

Inline linking however deserves special mention, as it is a fairly new format of advertising. Basically this is designed for content-heavy sites, and works by dynamically singling out words within your site's text and turning them into little ad links. When the visitor hovers over this link, a little DIV layer pops up with the ad tied to that keyword. The visitor can then go to the advertiser's site. With this linking method you define which parts of your page you wish to be dynamically searched for keywords, so that no ads will appear in your navigation links or your copyright line.

The upside to this method is that it is fairly new, so you may get a better click ratio than with standard banners, and that it takes no extra space on your pages. On the other hand, the ads are only loaded when the user hovers on the link, so there is a noticable "lag" before the ad actually pops up. This also only works on IE, so depending on your audience 5 to 15 percent of your visitors will not see these ads. Finally, these ads may be considered plain old annoying by your visitors, so we suggest using them on only a small part of your content, or else being extra picky with your keywords.

The statistics screens offer you semi-real-time view of your impressions, clicks and income, broken down per site, and by day. Note that for inline links, an "impression" seems to occur when the user hovers on the link, so don't be surprised to see a really low impression count paired with a really high click-through ratio if you use this format.

Clicksor pays on the 25th of the next month, and given Yesup's exellent payment track record, we have no doubt they will make their payments in a timely manner. (We already got one check from them - on time.)

This network is not notable for much other than the innovative inline linking format, but can also be used as a default for a better program such as AdSense.

The Good: Inline links are an interesting way to place ads without sacrificing screen space.

The Bad: There is no AdSense-style targeting resulting in mostly irrelevant ads.

this post has been copied and you have been banned for it.

now to contiue this discussion, I would just like to add my 2 cents.

I dont like Clicksor. The inline text ads did not work on my forums.
The Banner ads were not showing relevant ads.
The payout was soooooo less, that its useless.

Thats tight, Ow well thats life.
Still banned for copying a topic.
Atlest warn them or delete the creds.

Of course. Copying is strictly banned and it is very much in the TOS!
This is what happens if you do not read the TOS carefully!! How many of us do?

I tried clicksor!
It didnt work at all!!!
It pays nothing...

Thank you very much for telling me. I was about to give it a try. But now I'll keep a distance from it.

Hi:

I also don't think you could have Clicsor and Google on the same page. I think they might be competing. And this would be in violation of the terms of service of Google. I am not positifve on this point, however. It is just my best conjecture.

Google adsense is good, I would not jeopardize it by trying to run a competing service.

Sunkist

When I was doing advertising that pays I looked at several options before I chose one. Clicksor was among them. Clicksor is really not a good choice. Google is alot better and thier business has been around for a much longer time than most. They make sure their ads are realavant to what you are looking at. I like that in a company. Plus they pay well for the clicks.