I've personally found affiliate marketing outstrips Adsense earnings by a long way. On a typical site it's always at least 3x more on an eCPM basis. That said it helps a lot if you discuss products/services people pay money for, and exactly match the affiliate links with the content. Throwing up an affiliate banner just does not work in my experience. What do you find is best?
Well a lot of people say they make big money from Affiliate Marketing but it has never worked out for me. And as you stated, it is a lot of work on the page content to match the AD. I put up a site just for Affiliate Marketing for a couple of years and never made any money and I used the top three Affiliate companies.
Depends on your definition of hard work. 5 mins extra per post is not a big deal for me, and with some smart plugins it can be seconds. Well worth the effort for the extra revenue, and not having to rely on Adsense which is dangerous.
Adsense is not dangerous. I've been with adsense for like 4yrs with nothing to worry about. I heard that this affiliates thing makes way more money, but the problem is you have to spam ebay and peoples e-mails to get that big money. I like putting banners up and getting traffic to a site better.
What would you consider to be a normal, good ECPM from your affiliate marketing? I think adsense blows away anything i've done w/ affiliate marketing - my ECPM's are very strong.
I guess Adsense is the easiest way of making money quick. Affiliate marketing does not work that way and requires a niche site and from what i hear way more work than anything else. So if you have a day job that might be not possible.
Adsense is my choice. For affiliate marketing it is hard to optimize and needs more visitors to come.
I believe Affiliates do make more when compared to Adsense. Most users don't enjoy clicking on links but they will click on link within an article.
Sorry mate. Affiliates pay pretty well than adsense. Adsense has several limitations where affiliates win over it. You can't promote adsense on emails while you can refer affiliated products to your friends. You can post affiliated ads on facebook wall & twitter effectively, if your friends & fokes like it you earn money. But you can't make it with adsense. And some affiliates pay $200-$300 per sale while you have to work a lot to earn this money from adsense.
Well I know someone who's been with them for several years, literally has $10,000 days and they banned his account, took a couple of weeks for him to get it sorted. When you are a smaller fish it is even harder.
hmmm banned because of google news abuse? ;-) not to sound cynical however i find that most times people get banned for legitimate reasons, like gaming google news being one of them
That is the mistake many affiliate marketers make. you dont need to promote your affiliate product and adsense together on a site. Image you have a site with affiliate on 'making money online' and still add adsense on that same 'making money online' Which one are you suggesting to your visitors to go for. it looks complegated and confusing. Why not use one and leave the other. That is what i think.
@Topic. Both of them works depending on the one you choose. But you will need to focus and work hard to make any of them word. And the secret is 15 Letter Words " TARGETED TRAFFIC"
No just a manual reviewer that didn't like one or two pages of content so banned a site with tens of thousands of legit pages. They got back in since they had a rep at Adsense as they are a big earner (might not have gone that way if they did not have a rep). There's some more extreme examples out there too, I read a news story once where an Adsense publisher got banned and previous earnings confiscated. Google refused to explain why, he took them to court and won back those earnings. As much of a great company Google can be, there size has made them a difficult company to work with.