I used to have Adsense running on the pages along with my ClickBank items. Today I removed Adsense from the pages that promote ClickBank items. I wonder if that will help boost sales, or will it just reduce my Adsense revenue. This is a dumb question...I'm sure you have...but has anyone else tried this?
I would focus on traffic. Generate an email list by any mean even co-registration. Then set an autoresponder with compelling content. Repeat visitors results in more sales. You need something compelling to get the visitors attention. Offer free eBook etc from the autoresponder, but make the list member visit your site to download the gift... there you can give them the eBook PLUS sell them on any other product. The trick is to have a list. It really is!
Apart from the other excellent comments from the other guys, keep in mind that with adsence you are giving away potential buyers for a few cents. You should "close" any possible way out for your visitors so that they can go to your clickbank item and nowhere else, at least as much as you can. Keep in mind that with Adsence you might be loosing sales worth dollars for a few cents... Cheers
Won't it result in leaving a lot of potential income from adsense. I did try this and removed all other links from the page but later I had to revert, as sales don't increase dramatically or cover income from adsense.
LOL ^^ I don't mean to laugh but 'a lot of potential income from adsense'?? Not unless you have literally 10K+ unique visitors a day, even then you may make $20-$50? maybe? if you're uber lucky?? With CB programs you make that on one sale. If you have such a huge site that your adsense is literally bringing you hundreds of dollars a day then that would indicate you have ENORMOUS traffic (or really really targeted content to attract killer paying keywords/ads). In which case you would STILL be better off matching your traffic to quality and relevant aff offers with big payouts. Leave your adsense OFF - do NOT mix adsense with affiliate programs, these mish/mash all-in-one sites with adsense, adbrite, cb, cj, p2p, lead forms etc. all on the same page are going to SERIOUSLY dilute your potential income a LOT more than focusing on one or two prime converting offers. If you have TONS of offshore CRAPPY traffic, then perhaps you're better off with adsense after all. If you are generating traffic with other means and have a slate of 4-6 traffic building tactics that you practice daily, you should be able to aggregate profitable and english speaking eyeballs, which will make you a lot more money than adCENTS. NC.
Well, obviously you have to see for yourself if its more worth to have adsence or clickbank for your site. If you earn more with adsence, keep it and remove clickbank instead (Its a matter of finding the most profitable stream and keeping that one). On the other hand, if you earn more with clickbank you need to get as many potential customers trough your hops as possible so that you can maximize your profit - you cant afford to loose any visitors from adsence - its like trading dollars for cents. Testing is the key, i would test at least 1 week with adsence ads alone and another week with clickbank alone, and see the difference. Cheers
Forget adsense, focus on affiliate marketing, it will bring you $$$ , you can make a solid amount of money with clickbank/affiliate marketing even if you don't have too much traffic, and in order to make some serious money with adsense you need a lot of traffic.
web 18designer is correct, experiment, but generally don't let customers have a secondary way out. An email list is a great boost many times, as noted by depotgand, and NCMedia points out well that, generally, AdSense is not a top revenue driver. My real concern, personally, would be what am I doing wrong that makes AdSense more profitable when trying to sell ClickBank products? Also, what am I doing right to make AdSense generate profit? Then master both into separate streams of income, that is lift and separate! Louis
I only use AdSense on my more general webpages that aren't trying to sell anything in particular as I find trying to sell CB products to those people very difficult and I like how the AdSense ads automatically relate to whatever I'm talking about (these are usually blogs.) But I think if you set up a landing page with the intention of promoting a particular Clickbank product that including AdSense ads is a mistake.
Why would you want to let someone else get a commission on something you are promoting in exchange for a $.05 click? Like the other guys said....Only use adsense on pages where you aren't promoting one product in particular.
I would try putting the Adsense at the very bottom of the page. I figure, if they get to the bottom and you still have not convinced them to buy, they probably won't buy anyway
I will suggest keeping both is best,because adsense ads are relevant ads.clickbank ads also works.It is very difficult to say,experts must compare both pay per sale or pay per click.
I don't know if this is a "rule", per se, but here's my story: I removed all Adsense from my sites pushing Clickbank products. The argument of someone leaving my site for .05 instead of $25 is a valid one. Also, I sometimes saw advertisements for products similar to (or even exactly!) as the ones I was selling. Which meant someone was paying me .05 and then getting the $25 themselves from CB. lol (It was too much work to stay on top of banning competitor advertisers, since they change, and so many different folks are advertising the same product.) Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing Adsense. I have one site that does about $10 per day in Adsense revenue. But I don't sell CB products on that one. I have sites with Adsense, and I have sites with CB. But no longer both together. I USED to have sites with both. Then I realized that I was giving away clicks. I REMOVED AdSense from my site with CB products and sales of CB stuff went up immediately. No lie. Anywho, that's my story. One more thing to boost Clickbank sales is called SearchFeast. It's a little tool that puts (in my case) a pop-under screen that looks like a search box. "Didn't find what you're looking for? Try..." kind of thing. And it lists CB products with your affiliate link embedded in all of them. It's a great way to boost sales. You can search Clickbank for "Searchfeast", or you can click on my affiliate link to thank me for the tip. SEARCHFEAST Even if you just go and buy it yourself, I will say this: about 1/3 of my CB clicks come from Searchfeast. But to get that, you'll want to pre-populate the search with a keyword that will show relevant CB products. In otherwords, don't just pop the snippet of code on your page without adding the tag that tells it what to search for. Otherwise it just shows some popular CB products on the first page. For example, if your site is about dog training, you might pre-populate it with "dog" or "pet" or something that's going to show the most relevant CB products on the first page. Make sense?
You are right, but I feel that adsense gives more options to a visitor and vistors who aren't actually interested in our offer, leave in a profitable way, because getting even 10% visitor to sale is difficult and even with adsense I have not noticed any dramatical increase or decrease in sale. It is true that a single clickbank sale can cover a week of adsense income.