The Adsense Pot of Gold Is Now a Packet of Pennies…
How much are you earning from your websites?
Many people will never get past $0.05 per day using Adsense as their primary income source.
With Google’s new systems, Adsense isn’t nearly as good an earner as say a year ago. The quick developement of thousands of “Made For Adsense” (MFA) sites which have no real value have forced Google to change their system to protect their Google Adwords customers.
To compound this many Adwords advertisers have stopped using the content network to advertise.
Adwords ads on the content network are now way cheaper than on the search network, so if you use Adsense chances are your earnings have plummeted in the last year…
The Adsense pot of gold is now a packet of pennies…
That said, I still have websites I created years ago that still earn an income each month through Adsense, and I have not done a thing to them in years.
BUT, and it’s a big but…
They are now getting to the point where they earn more through affiliate products!
Internet Marketers like Andy Williams (Dr Andy as he’s known) have always advocated promoting affiliate products first, and using systems like Adsense as a backup income source.
Looks like he was right!
Patience is something you need if you decide to switch to promoting affiliate products. With Adsense you get to see the daily income in your Adsense account. With affiliate products you can go for days (or weeks) and then suddenly you’ll get a sale, but that sale will be much more than you could earn through Adsense.
If your site received 20 visitors per day and your Adsense CTR was 10% - with a click value of $0.02 you would earn $US0.04 per day. That’s US$1.20 per month.
If your affiliate links received the same CTR you would send 60 visitors to the affiliate product. If the affiliate sales page converted at 2% you would get about one sale per month. If the product was a $30 product and you received 10% commission, you would get $3 for the sale.
That’s a US$1.80 increase, or more than double what you could earn from Adsense.
But you would have to go through the agony of only making one sale each month. That’s 29 days of checking your stats and seeing nothing!
You will also get months where you don’t make a sale, but the following month you make two or three.
Patience is the key… As is pre-selling the affiliate product to your visitors. With a good
pre-sell your CTR might even drop as fewer people click through to the product sales page, but your conversions will be higher as the people you send to the sales page will be more likely to buy.
Over the next few weeks I will add more ideas on pre-selling affiliate products and how to incorporate affiliate sales into your current content websites.
Take care…
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I agree. Some people do very well from Adsense but I suspect they are few and far between.
Adsense is OK for paying the hosting costs for a site and maybe a little bit more but for most it won’t even do that.
Affiliate sales can be sporadic but overall they bring in the bacon.
Comment by Terence — May 7, 2008 @ 11:27 am