Adsense is a great way to utilize adspace. Comission junction affiliate banners/ads are also a profitable way to use adspace. I have experience with both. I have made up to $500 in one day with adsense, And have recieved checks from CJ. I would like to hear your opinions on wheither Adsense is a better way to use ad space V.S. C.J. I believe CJ is the biggest affiliate network online. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Both is very good for webmasters. But I think, CJ is little bit complex than Adsense. New webmasters can easily use adsense on their site.
I have earned more with adsense but the ecpm for CJ is 100x better. Though it really depends on your niche. If cj has a good affiliate that fits your site give cj a try though the best thing for you to do is to run both in rotation.
The problem is that Adsense is very unpredictable. You don't know how much you are going to make with each click. With CJ, you at least have a firm grip on what you will receive for each conversion. As well, you know exactly what is showing in that spot at all times. Adsense can throw anything at your visitors, and it won't always be relevant. Depends on where I'm getting my visitors from. If the campaign is targeted at a "consumer- oriented" product purchasing crowd, then CJ is tops. Random visitors may get Adsense. That's where geotargeting helps somewhat as well.
No, I am not going to say you are a newb. I meant adsense is good for any newbies. I know you are an experienced webmaster so you can take a decision yourself which one is best for you.
Theres definitely more money in affiliate marketing. With Adsense if you can get someone to visit your page you might get a click, but with affiliate marketing you really need targeted marketing. If you're site gets users who are specifically looking for what your niche is i would try to focus primarily on affiliate marketing.
With Adsense you need tons of traffic to make any money and it's not predictable. There's not way around it. With CJ, you don't need lots of traffic. You just need a handful of buyers and you can test what works and what does not. With Adsense you just draw them and and then pray. It's more luck than skill.
I think the above comment, that it depends on your niche, is really true. If you are trying to blog about living frugally and not spending a lot of money, you're going to have a tough time with affiliate links, lol. Google analytics lets you create multiple landing pages, why not try some of both and split your traffic into AB testing to see which one will earn you more over a set period of time?
You can't really say that. It depends on your niche. AdSense perform well in some niches, while CJ is better in others. As far as you don't run them together - you will do well
I agree with zexy, it depends on the niche, different types of ads work differently on the various types of sites out there, its never as simple as is it this way or that way. Experimentation is the only way, an outsider cant tell you what will work on your own site, you should know your own site/s better than anyone.
It really depends on your website... If its content based and is receiving huge traffic then AdSense is the best...
I disagree with this. If you have good ad placement and a profitable niche, you can make a lot of money with Adsense with little traffic. If you had a flash arcade site that got 500 uniques a day that only makes $7 a day with adsense due to low bids on those keywords, while you have a real estate directory that gets 50 uniques a day and makes $30 a day with a high click through rate and high paying keywords.
Ad placement is key. I was making $.50 per impression for my site with adsense, not clicks. I just wonder if the ad placement is the same and traffic is targeted, which would perform better.
There are a lot of influencing factors. If you pick a high converting product on CJ you can make many times more than you would through Adsense, but pick a duff product and you could have hundreds of clicks and no sales, which means you missed out on some nice Adsense earnings. The EPC, ie earnings per 100 clicks, is the key figure for me in CJ.