I've read affiliate experts boldly stating that any outbound links on your affiliate site that don't point to your affiliate merchant are "leaky links" and are causing you to loose affiliate income. Therefore a link partner directory, Adsense, Chikita all would would be "leaky links" in their opinion. We were simply hoping to monetize traffic that may not be interested in our affiliates but may be interested in the Adsense adverts thereby "hedging our bets". Would you recommend adding Adsense, Chikita, ext. to an affiliate site or should we simply stick with content and affiliate links only?
I think that what matters is the cpm that you get. It have to be test on a site by site basis to see on which sites you get a better cpm by adding adsense.