Adsense, Google's advertisment launch pattern. I think all of us are well known about it. But did you do the "affiliate" to make profit from some website owner? With the developpment of e-commerce, More and more website supply a service named affiliate program, especially for some online shopping mall ( such as Wholesale City) to rise their website traffic. What is the affiliate program??? 1. The site will list some articles about how to conclule the profit ( money ) (What is it?? Ok click here to see a example) 2. Supply them your document about name, website adress,payment account. then they will create a affiliate account on their website. 3. Copy the code from the affiliate program page, and past the code on your sites (blog,spaces,or SNS personnel page) 4. Promote your sites, and wait the day of payment. Comparing to Google adsense, it will be a new problem to judge the credibility of the website ( it's very important , you can get nothing from the worse credibility website). About how to check the credibility, I will give the answer in my next post. Remember, I don't against google adsense, I just want to say maybe we can combine the two method perfectly..... If you have high quality content on your sites, why don't you make use of it to make profit for you????
Both of the PPC advertising and affiliate program can earn good money. It depends on which you are preferring.
People that know what they are doing can make more with affiliate programs. But the two can be combined. Since Adsense takes people off your site just put it at the bottom of the page and put your affiliate ads on top. That way if no one clicks your affiliate links you get a chance at some click revenue at the bottom of the page.
I think affiliate programs work better for sites with lot of traffic. I personally prefer PPC over affiliates; its sort of guaranteed that I will earn some money end of the month.
I for one have both adsense-optimized and affiliation-optimised sites and both types are serving their purpose very well. The most important thing to keep in mind, however, is that you need to choose between PPC and affiliation and optimize your site accordingly. My main rule is to never combine PPC with affiliation - I have experimented a lot with it and it just doesn't work. If I optimize a site for Adsense then I make every possible effort to emphasize the ads and have people click on them - and if I launch an affiliate site I make it around the product(s) I'm advertising.
bryanon What about if you can have a blog where you of course have Adsense, but in the same blog, you create a tutorial/review for using a tool, software, or whatever thing you have and affiliate program. Then you put a link you can buy the thing on this link.(software, tool, program). That way I think Adsense and Affiliates could very well together. What do you think? I have always use Adsense but I will start using affiliates from now on.
Theoretically yes, but you're not going to get the maximum value out of either - that's simply because one distracts each others' purpose as it's very important to give your visitors as few 'exit ways' as possible. Let me give you two examples: 1. I have a site that supports a profitable affiliate product with the content of my site being perfectly optimized for the sales of this product. The product pays me $15 per sale and I get one sale out of each 500 visits. I now decide to add some Adsense blocks for extra revenue. On a site like this (assuming it's not in a high-paying PPC niche in which case I wouldn't optimize it as an affiliate site in the first place), an average Adsense click generates me $0.25 (realistic) and the CTR is 1% (optimistic). Time to do the math: Adsense makes me 500*1%*0.50 = $1.25 per 500 visitors, whereas the affiliate product makes me twelve times as much. Meaning that in case one in twelve people decide to click on one of your adsense ads and therefore navigate away from the site never buying your product, you're in a loss. 2. I have a site that is well optimized for Adsense and therefore attracts medium- to high-paying ads ($1.50 a piece) and guarantees me a high CTR of 5% (very realistic with some of the top-optimized themes). Therefore, my site makes me 500x5%x$1.50 = $37.50 for each 500 visits. Now I decide to start offering the same product as I mentioned in example #1, but on this site only every 5000th visitor makes the $15 purchase because my site is so heavily optimized for Adsense (look at the site in my signature and you'll see what I mean - think you can effectively sell a product on a site like that? ). I'm not going to do the math here as you've probably already gotten the point regardless. Of course the basis of those examples is that I have calculated which monetization method is more profitable for this specific site. But this is something I do way before launching the site. Hope my 2 cents will come in handy
For me, I'd say that, as a viewers of some websites and creator of others, it all depends on the relationship you want to have with your members. If you want them to comeback and have a nice user experience, I'd say go for affiliate marketing. why? simple: if you can give related items to your viewers, it doesn't actually looks like advertising!!! They will feel like you are giving them extra ressources. Personally, affiliate marketing has always worked fine with me. Users never EVER complain anymore since I switch from adsense to various affiliates networks and programs. My 2 cents
Hi, I have tried affiliate marketing in the past, but never had much luck!! Anybody know of any good products that might have a chance of selling? Thanks & Regards Killerwebs
I know TONS of good products that are worth selling and pay great commission - and I either already promote them or will start promoting them in the near future. Nobody is going to tell you which product they find profitable because the only thing accomplished by that would be getting another competitor - not very smart, is it? Anyway, I digress.. What I actually wanted to say was that you need to head out there, pick a niche that you feel comfortable with, choose a product or three that pay good commission and possibly convert well, do your analysis and get started. Or buy one of them $99.99 eBooks, read 90 pages of what I just wrote in the last paragraph, then buy another one, then surf in the forum a little and the back to the beginning .. Btw. Don't get me wrong - I don't consider myself an entirely arrogant and cocky person .. I'm actually pretty nice and helpful but I do think that when needing help in forums you should be a bit more specific than 'which products can I make money with?' No hard feelings
It sometimes depend on the target market. Both affiliates and adsense work. Affiliates pay much better than PPC. But you should use what you think suits you and your site best.
good job spamming your web site 2 times in the post, including the link in your signature that's 3 links. Good job spammer
A fair amount of people here are quoting PPC which is not correct. PPC is the process of Google Adwords, CPC is the process of Google Adsense. CPA vs CPC >Well, it requires more skill to do the business in the affiliate game, but I feel this is where the big money is made. Programs like Google Adsense are great, but it's really a numbers game and you certainly need big numbers. I still think CPM is the best way to go (no course of action required - just the page view).