Why affiliate marketing is better than Adsense, PPC marketing.
The other day I was doing a bit of arbitrage which involved driving traffic I bought with Adwords onto a landing page selling a particular product. This can be quite tricky but if you get your maths + niche right, you can make some nice cash. So I targeted a bunch of related sites running Adsense. Paid for a bunch of clicks and sold a few products. I have made a little profit so I was happy. Now why would not the websites I advertised on cut out the middle man (Google) and sell the products themselves, directly?
Have you ever thought about this? Why do people advertise with Adwords? Why do they pay you 50c for every click? Or even $5/click! (Considering that Google also keep certain % of the money) How can they afford to do this? Its quite simple really. They are able to generate more money from that visitor than 50c. These companies either sell their own service/product or simply do what I do and redirect people to their affiliates page. So why would you want to your incredibly profitable visitor to go somewhere else for a few cents even though you could have converted them yourself?
Have a look at your Adsense ads. (Don’t click on them. Manually enter the urls) What are these companies selling? Try and see if you can sell their product/service directly to your visitors via an affiliate program. I myself need to sit down and come up with something for this blog when I get a bit of time off from my main projects.
Have a look what Shoemoney has to say about Adsense on blogs:
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May 14th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
By the time you get your check for Adsense ads, the money has gone through so many hands that there is hardly anything left, yet some bloggers are still all about Adsense.
May 14th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
For those new to making money online this can be the most convenient system that will bring instant results. I guess most newbs would rather see a click every day than a sale every month. But yea, as you become more experienced with affiliate marketing you should really start moving out of Adsense. Like you said, the revenue should go up.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:00 am
Hi, i’m unable to access the 2 previous post??
May 15th, 2008 at 9:23 am
I’m being monetize some of my web forr both ppc and affiliate, everyone can combine it in your page
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:37 pm
You have a good point. I will work on affilaite marketing next month.