Hey all .. I was just wondering if anyone of you guys have tried adsense and also affiliate selling ... I'd like to know wich one of the two is considered most lucarative by most people .... Thanks Onesolo
Affiliate is much harder to convert unless your traffic is highly focussed to the the ad your are pushing. Also to convert well your visitors must have trust in your site.
Affiliates will work well if you have extremely targeted traffic (looking to buy/sign up etc.), AdSense works great as a catchall with mainstream traffic. Try using 50/50 advertising on mainstream sites (showing affiliate ads when Adsense is on noshow to pick up lucky leads). If you have a widget site, it may be better to run a higher percentage of widget programs. Use an ad system like PHPadsnew to manage this
Adsense for me any day over affiliates. The latter just don't bring revenue that you would expect. I believe there is a reluctance by site viewers to bother with affiliate links. Adsense id just so straight forward for the average site visitor.
I find affiliates only work best when you have extremely targeted traffic (but you do get a few leads slipping through when you replace AdSense PSAs with mainstream affiliate products).
well depends upon you how good are you ! with adsense its like one time set up and no monitring for future. but with affiliates you need to be right in touch with the industry making all the ossible updates in your sites with the changing merchant behaviour. if you can spare some time affiiate will definately be far more productive than Adsense....
It often depends on the type of site you have. I've tried affiliates on my content-based site a few times and they just don't work for me. Adsense is the best option at the moment.
I think affiliates work well with sites that run on very tight nieche and your promot products that are based on that nieche.
It you are just starting out, go with AdSense. At least you'll get a little bit of money. So far my AdSense has brought in a few dollars but I've had no success at all with affiliates. Absolutely zero.
It also depends on how you want to promote your site. For example you can build a single landing page and drive affiliate sales using PPC. For this you spend money to make money but the returns are higher. Adsense as a general catch all works great with sites that have high traffic. Also if your site visitors do not have credit cards then it is def the way to go.
I run both and get results from both. Try it. Also I have a site to drive traffic to my affiliate ventures, seems to being ok.
Well idea behind adsense is to give somebody the click so he could convert it into bigger sale. Simple and straight. Ok, you will need to put some work into this but once ready and polished then you can crack out sites left and right and instead of 5$/day, you could be making a sale of 50-200$ instead.
Interesting thing is that google starts to track the duration of site visits so basically if visitors just comes and goes from your sites, this could cause drop in rankings quite soon (end of this year, begining of next one); yahoo already tracks SERP and user behaviour so you really must be good boy
I agree with much of what has been said. Affiliate programs can earn A LOT more - IF your traffic is targeted and IF the merchant has good conversions and payouts. I had an affiliate for a jogging stroller affiliate program that could not figure out why she was not making sales on her jogging stroller site. She had Adsense on top and her affiliate ads were below the fold, so people were clicking off her site and buying on someone elses. DUH... She switched the order and put her affiliate ads on top and made a lot more than she ever did with Adsense. That was mainly because she had a highly targeted site with a VERY high converting program. Affiliate marketing is more work, but offers much bigger rewards if you know what you are doing.
Adsense has consistently outperformed affiliate programs on my site. That is despite the higher number of click-throughs for the affiliate programs. It is very frustrating when you work hard and then log onto your CJ account to only find $0 commissions. I guess I have to work hard(er)!