I bet the vast majority of you are?! You’ll read what I write, you may even agree with some of it. That’s where it ends. The majority of you will not take any action on what I’m saying. You know it’s true, I know it’s true, I read other peoples blogs and do exactly the same. The problem is that amongst all the rubbish that is written on the web there are some real gems of information that should never be ignored. This is one of them.
So this is going to be the last time I ever mention this and if you choose to ignore me again so be it. A little while back I wrote about the difference swapping out Adsense for affiliate offers was making to my income (you can read that post here). Well at the end of May I decided to swap over another page (less than 100 uniques a day), I removed the Adsense (the TLA on that page had already gone thanks to my Google slap). The trouble was that with all that was going on in my life I didn’t have time to source and add a suitable affiliate offer. It was no big deal for me, that page was making less than a dollar a day with Adsense so no real loss. It would wait.
Two days ago I remembered about that page. After some hunting around I finally found a decent related offer through ClickBank (thanks in part to seeing what my old TLA buyers were pushing) that was offering $25 a sale. I created a single inline link to that offer as part of my page text. I’m now averaging 1 sale a day and have made $75 from traffic that for years was generating only $1 a day.
I don’t know any other way of putting this – on any pages where you talk about something specific STOP USING ADSENSE AND START PROMOTING AFFILIATE OFFERS!
7 Responses to “Are You Still Ignoring Me?”
marguerite
June 26, 2009
I ran an experiment earlier this year, for a month and a half. I removed Adsense from one of my blogs. The blog received about 100 visitors each day for about 200 page views. It made a little more than $200 each month on Adsense alone on an average month.
When I removed Adsense I put more effort into promoting my affiliate offers. Yet, I didn’t make more money from affiliates. I make more money overall with Adsense on because my affiliate revenue is about the same whether I have Adsense or not.
I did however receive more traffic from Google when I did not have Adsense and yet that traffic did not convert well in terms of sales.
|Paul B
June 26, 2009
Marguerite in that case you are probably promoting the wrong offer(s). Have a look at your Adsense ads and see what they are promoting, check out the domains (don’t click your own ads) and see if there is an affiliate program for what they are advertising on your website. Any Adwords advertiser worth his salt will not be running ads long term on your site unless they were overall profitable.
|MLDina
June 26, 2009
Hopefully a LOT of affiliates and bloggers take your advice on this. There is a huge amount of potential in online marketing- you’re a real example with 1 offer. That’s great!
|James
June 26, 2009
I don’t ignore you, your posts are very interesting!
Nice catchy title BTW
James’s last blog post..My Home Office setup a.k.a my affiliate workspace
|Deneil Merritt
June 26, 2009
I been doing this, I made some sales. Hopefully I will make more. I recently put a few links in one of my serious posts that bring in very targeted traffic to that post. I will see how that goes over the next week or 2.
Deneil Merritt’s last blog post..Twittley Review
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