Written by Sharon Housley The Rise and Fall of Affiliate Programs Affiliate programs were once a great source of online revenue, a savvy webmaster with an eye for marketing could easily parley a site into a money making machine with a little luck and effort. However, the evolution and growth of the Internet has hampered the growth of fortune making affiliate programs. Constant search engine algorithm changes, along with the search engine's clear distaste for sites participating in affiliate programs; have made it a little more difficult to earn a healthy affiliate revenue. An influx in the use of software programs that terminate cookie tracking and privacy programs that prevent webmasters from tracking referrers, have also hindered the affiliate sales channel. While it is still possible to make money through affiliate marketing, other alternatives ought to be considered. A Healthy Alternative or Supplement Google's Adsense program allows approved websites to dynamically serve Google's pay-per-click Adword results. This has become a popular alternative and an effective revenue sharing program for webmasters. Google's spider parses the adserving website and serves ads that relate to the website's content. While the Google's Adsense program still has some issues, they are making efforts to improve it. The website maintenance related to Adsense is very easy and requires very little effort. Webmasters need only to insert javascript into the webpage or website template. The javascript calls the ad from Google and will ensure that ads are served each time a visitor goes to the webpage. If the visitor clicks one of the Adsense ads served to the website, the website owner is credited for the referral. The implementation, while simple, has its drawbacks. Google dictates the format of the ads. Webmasters can select from a handful of preformatted text boxes that lack creativity. A recent improvement allows webmasters to modify the ad boxes to resemble the website's color scheme. Still, a far cry from some of the creative ads webmasters are accustom to. The example below reflects how the color scheme can be modified to match the look of the website, but the ads physically don't fit well into the overall website design. Google determines the content of the ads that are shown/ Sometimes the ads are poorly targeted, and of no interest to the website visitors. Read More at Webmaster Global
I read the replies first. I feel vindicated in some weird way. Was it really that bad. I won't read it if those here say it was a waste of their lives....
Damn, After reading how bad it was I just had to read it! And I'm a slow reader, I wasted 2 minutes of my life!
And there are people making a good living out of affiliate programs, so that part of the article contributed nothing either.
2 tips for reading forum posts 1-if it starts with "this is not spam" ... it usually is. 2-if it contains the word "explained" ... it never does.
Sounds like it was written a long, long time ago and explains nothing about AdSense in the detail as the title of the article suggests. Underpants. Pete
Ok. I made an overview in 5 seconds (it was not easy to read) and read the comments. Total: 1.5min Thanks
729 viewed this thread average 1 min. view 729 * 1 min. = 729 minutes / 60 = 12.15 hours lost #@#$@#$ half day lost so far.
Sjorritsma had wasted 5 minutes calculating about time wasted by other people. oops wait its not post about person above thread... this is here - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=30182&page=12
Amazingly, that "article" appears on at least 420 different websites. Even if you can look past the multiple spellling and grammatical errors, you are still left with an utterly useless piece of prose. The beauty of free articles, huh?
Glad i read the posts 1st then the main thread....hmmm....how could it be so fake so useless....i donna....dat curiousity is killing me...but i wont read ..