Comments on: Why I Regret Ever Using Adsense

By: mark

mark — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:36:38 +0000

Agree entirely. I’ve decided to allow adsense blocks on my CB Refunds page because I don’t want to do any selling from there. But on theBotfarm I always figured that I’d hate to make pennies from ads on my page while others made dozens of dollars from clickthroughs, since I am an affiliate for most of the products which would pop up by content and search matching.
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By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:10:01 +0000

I think affiliate links and adsense perform both good depending on the niche

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Wisata SEO Sadau — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:44:40 +0000

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By: templar56

templar56 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:07:31 +0000

You certainly have a good point. Adsense does make money slowly, or sometimes not at all... templar56’s last blog post..Are Work At Home Businesses And The Internet Encouraging Social Seclusion?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:45:36 +0000

I think affiliate links and adsense are two different beasts. They both serve their purpose when used the right way. It depends on your niche and website. Patrick’s last blog post..Eliminate Your Monthly Phone Bill with the Magic Jack

By: Paul B

Paul B — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:05:11 +0000

When I’m doing affiliate marketing within as part of normal page content I try and stay away from the CPA networks as far as possible. The trouble is that they tend to drop offers all the time, tere’s no way you’d ever be able to keep up and would spend half your life swapping offers out.

My first port of call is always to to do a search in Google based on my page content + “affiliate”. I then go through them and highlight anything that I think I WOULD BUY. If nothing turns up or I’m not convinced that they’ll pay up (that can be a big problem with companies running their own affiliate systems) then I resort back to ClickBank. If ClickBank fails then it’s Amazon, although with their crappy percentage and short cookie time Amazon are the last resort.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:05:30 +0000

Good post Paul, I have seen similar results on a few of my sites and I have started working much more on affiliate product/program placement within my content. Time will tell I guess. As far as adsense goes, I really only have one site that performs really well with it and that site is a very targeted niche with a very specific user base.. Time will tell I guess

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By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:10:07 +0000

Nice post Paul It really makes me want to promote affiliate products but I never seem to have any success with it. Perhaps I need to choose my offers more carefully? How do you go about finding a decent product to promote? Chris’s last blog post..Exploring the earning power of a niche site

By: R Kumar

R Kumar — Sat, 30 May 2009 09:35:51 +0000

It is true that adsense gives nothing in terms of revenue in comparison to affiliate products. If marketed correctly, affiliate products are also an auto-pilot way of income generation. I too have found that the time, effort and space wasted on adsense can yield much better results with affiliate products, these days. R Kumar’s last blog post..I Lost my Pagerank!

By: Paul B

Paul B — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:56:23 +0000

That affiliate product took half an hour of searching around to find, for me it’s a no brainer. What Adsense has going for it is that it’s just so convenient to use, but as with just about everything in life the more you put in the more you get out.

I have another example of this from a much more popular page. It averages around $5 a day with Adsense from a thousand or so uniques – I put an affiliate product on it 6 months ago and within a week had made over $400 – the best day I’ve had on that page it made over $450! Some days it blanks but that’s just the game. No way does it work like that all the time but like I said above I don’t have a single page where Adsense is outperforming a well chosen affiliate link over the long term.