What gives you most returns, Adsense or Affilate? I tried running a few Affilate ads of hosting companies for a month, got lot of clicks but no returns. Now i am back to using adsense, atleast i would get some return(not much though) for those clicks. Whats your experience?
i would say you would get more clicks on adsense then affiliaate sales but even if you get 100 clicks on adsense which is pretty hard sometimes, the affiliate sale would proberly get you more money off one sale. so would say affilaite definently.
If you're already getting clicks, might as well go with Adsense. There are so many other unknowns with affiliate problems: *IF* they click your link, and then, *IF* the landing page is good, and *IF* they're in a buying mood, and *IF* the affiliate program is legitimate, you get paid. On the other hand with Adsense, it's much simpler. *IF* they click the link, you get paid.
I earn much more with adsense, but then I started with adsense and I spent like 99% on developping adsense and 1% on developping affiliates. I'm interested in the potential of affiliates earnings, but honestly haven't had much luck and I kind of lost interest for a long time, now I'm trying more and more as I have $150+ in clickbank and have been payed already (first time ever) with cj.com But I couldn't live off affiliates at the moment. I think affiliates earnings require a different set of skills than adsense.
Affiliate conversion depends on, how targeted your traffic is. Also, the more traffic you have the more conversions there will be. Anyway, how about trying about adsense and affiliate programs? and see what the results are.
The best thing to do is set up some sort of a split test. Over time, get 100 clicks to each and see which one converts to the best. Anything less than 100 clicks to each would not be a fair amount to convert. Some affiliate programs will pay a lot per conversion but have a low conversion ratio! Each site and each niche is a bit different… Testing is the only way to tell.
Personally, adsense is better than affiliate for me. Adsense is also easy to earn money than affiliate since in affiliate, you need to give the real customer and in adsense, just one click is ok.
Affiliate marketing is way much better than adsense if you can market your products properly.First learn than earn. It has more potential,but it also depends on your niche...for some niches adsense is a better solution.
Depending on the program and my site in question, Adsense seems to perform better. Some sites just cannot convert on Affiliate offers, just doesn't work, too many factors. Plus affiliate offers need to be ultra targeted, otherwise it's just a waste. Adsense seems to be the most consistent earner for me, through the month and every month.
Mixing things is the best: you want adsense for quick and easy money on a day-to-day basis, but you want to invest some time in affiliation too. When done right, affiliation seems the way to go in long-term. I usually use both of them. Try to put only one little related affiliate link on your website (without removing your adsense, you can do this) and wait - if you have lot of clicks on this link without any conversion, try to find a better affiliate offer - the day you will hit your first conversion, well, it may pay you more than a hundred Adsense clicks. You'll see. It's often only a case of finding the good product/service for your public. And yes, sometimes this products didn't exist or your website don't go well with affiliation, and adsense is the only way to go. Good luck!
Like others have said. You need to have targeted traffic for affiliate offers. Adsense, I think you need to target the less tech savvy crowd and list your links in ways that may trick or entice a user to click them.
More and more people are using FireFox and the "noscript" add-on for security reasons. With "noscript" on it filters out any advertisements on websites like YPN! or AdSense has anyone seen their PPC revenue drop as a result?
No, it's only a minority using this setting, thanksfully it's not "per default" in any of the browsers. So the ones using it are a minority part of the web savvy crowd and with adsense the goal is not to publish content for the web savvy crowd, but for the most larger not web savvy crowd, because that's where you can get high CTR and lots of traffic.
Depends on the niche. Affiliate can bring more money, but adsense is better for information type sites.
Depends really on the kind of traffic you have, but you never should rely only on one source of income!
i also run affiliate of health products and i buy one domain for it, i optimized my site well to come on top rank, i get my site listed on first page for some keywords and also got traffic but i could not sell any product, than i removed all affiliate links and placed adsense code instead of affiliate banners. Than i got benefit of clicks.
Think of it this way. You run adsense and are giving people clicks to affiliate offers. If you get 10,000 clicks, sure you made some money but think if it was all targeted traffic to your affiliate offer converting at 1:10 (which is what your doing for people paying for clicks)