AdSense or Affiliate Programs?

[Robbie]

What are people using on there Minisites?

I have been using Adsense for some time and happy with the results but I want more so Im using CJ.com to set up affilate links and trying it out.

Anyone got info on there experiances.

Regards,

Robbie

 

[Albert]

Use both.

 

[Robbie]

Try eBay.....IMHO. Each signup....depending on the quality of the signup......can bring 1 to 50 dollars. I have found some domains perform 10X better than parking if you add eBay in the mix.

Sign up at EbayPartnerNetwork if you are not already a member. Since signing up I have added thousands monthly in income that would have never been realized with Adsense or otherwise.

I use really good generics.....so I don't know if that makes a difference in income producing potential, but thought I would let you know. The ones that seem to work the best are ones with BIG traffic that don't do too good in parking. I also use no expired traffic, just good generics.
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Thanks Guy's,

I shall look into ebay.

 

[ezimedia]

HI

I also make minisites.. and on them I use adsense, and clickbank affiliate links... and sell links on them... I do sometimes use amazon... and I am now going to start using that ebay partner network site..

Thx
Tom

 

[harkster]

While it is down considerably Adsense is still my primary source of revenue I gave up on CJ and Amazon is very inconsistent but I am putting together a new effort using the Drupal Amazon module (is a bit hard to target it to specific categories).

The eBay program is picking up using their rss feeds. I can't seem to figure their API out.

 

[netmeg]

I'm loving Amazon, I can always depend on it. Apart from regular clicks on the products I pick out, I get all kinds of other sales like if I email or tweet someone a link for a neti pot, that person didn't buy it but they bought a pearl jam box set or some such, and I got paid for that. Or someone will click on a link for a turkey roasting pan, and end up buying a *bike* - and it's still on my affiliate id.

Plus they carry *everything*. I even found a red white and blue star spangled portable camping chair, perfect for watching fireworks in!

Also, if you have any kind of a brand thing going on, don't forget cafe press for tee shirts and other merch. I sold about 200 shirts last year, and it's not even a terribly good design - but it has my domain name on it. People are essentially paying to advertise your brand. Can't beat that with a stick.

 

[harkster]

I'm loving Amazon, I can always depend on it. Apart from regular clicks on the products I pick out, I get all kinds of other sales like if I email or tweet someone a link for a neti pot, that person didn't buy it but they bought a pearl jam box set or some such, and I got paid for that. Or someone will click on a link for a turkey roasting pan, and end up buying a *bike* - and it's still on my affiliate id.

Plus they carry *everything*. I even found a red white and blue star spangled portable camping chair, perfect for watching fireworks in!

Also, if you have any kind of a brand thing going on, don't forget cafe press for tee shirts and other merch. I sold about 200 shirts last year, and it's not even a terribly good design - but it has my domain name on it. People are essentially paying to advertise your brand. Can't beat that with a stick.

I am finding people buying totally unrelated stuff on eBay. I haven't totally given up on Amazon. If I keep plugging it seems something will work -- just getting cricketmagazine.net put together. If it happens to kick in I will be looking for for a writer as my regular doesn't know from anything about cricket (neither do I)

 

[Robbie]

I have tried CJ and just dont seem to get the conversation, so I think Im going to have to run Adsense aswell as CJ and Amazon.

 

[andrewgtrrr]

I have tried CJ and just dont seem to get the conversation, so I think Im going to have to run Adsense aswell as CJ and Amazon.

I've also tried CJ and made like $2 in a month, but with adsense I have made $15 , so I would recommend for you to use adsense.

 

[DomainMagnate]

Affiliate programs are for targeted traffic and adsense for all the rest..

 

[enlytend]

Affiliate programs (CJ) and contextual ads (Adsense) are apples and oranges ... different strategies for success.

Adsense is more like parking. Since all you need for revenue is a click, you WANT your visitors to click away from your site.

On the other hand,f you just paste affiliate banners on your site and hope people will click through and buy you're likely to be disappointed. Affiliate programs are about selling. To do well with affiliate programs, you want to keep people ON your site while you gently lead them down the path to the shopping cart .

If they click through and don't buy, you get zilch, but if they DO buy, your commission will probably be much higher than the corresponding Adsense click.

I get monthly checks from Google for the handful of sites where I run Adsense, but I get far more revenue than that from affiliate programs. For me, affiliate marketing is to Adsense as Adsense is to parking - your mileage may vary.

 

[RTM]

It's important to note that the beauty (and challenge) of CJ is that you get to select and manage the affiliate programs that you wish to promote on your site.

With Adsense, it is pretty much 100% hands-off and managed by the Google algo... albeit with a certain (important) amount of flexibility in terms of ad placement, A/B testing tools, display adjustments and the like.

The best approach is to test ALL revenue sources, whether it's Adsense, YPN, CJ, the eBay Partner Network and others.

As an example, we have a site that earns 10-15x the Adsense earnings from our integration of relevant (although not dynamically contextual) eBay auctions that earn through EPN.

As mentioned above, a lot of it has to do with how much time you have to invest in your monetization strategy (combined with your will and desire to optimize your revenue streams) and the demographics of your sites' traffic.

Also, Adsense pays by CPM (views) in addition to CPC (clicks) although from my experience on a couple of hundred client sites, CPM rates tend to be extremely low and are best replaced by manually selected affiliate program links/banners in equal rotation (at least give it a try.)

Rob

 

[scweb]

I use adsense then I mix in EPN (ebay partner network), this seems to work the best for me.

 

[nandaspk]

both of them will gain your earning.:cy: