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Why NOT to use adSense to monetize your site
Adsense is a program used by millions of people to make a little extra money from their blogs. However, adSense is one of the worst programs to monitize your blog with. It pays horribly, and does not afford you the same earnings potential as some other programs. In my experience, adSense would pay around $0.50 per click. That is great and everything but I could earn more with the same amount of clicks. Let’s say I was getting 100 clicks a month, very feasible. That would be $50 if I used adSense to monetize my site. If I got the same amount of clicks and used an affiliate program for that site that was related to the site, figuring on an average conversion rate of 10% at $10 per lead. That would be $100. That is just one instance of how not having CPC ads really helps your bottom line. In fact, you could have even more clicks with affiliate links/banners because more people are likely to be interested in them. I have had sites that have had 500 clicks a month and with that conversion rate are real money makers. So do yourself a favor and dump adSense before they ban you. Plus it is apparent that you can make way more money with affiliate marketing! Enjoy your increased earnings and a better looking website!
Amazon Affiliate
If you have not heard of Amazon you must of been living under a rock. After all, it is in the top ten web retailers and handles thousands of transactions daily. Within a few years, you will be able to have all your groceries ordered through Amazon as well. They are a growing company, and you can cash in on it. They have their own affiliate program where you get 4% of anything people buy through your link You get higher percentages as you sell more items. I would recommend signing up for an account if you buy anything on line. Here is a little, dishonest, but still money making trick. Go to a public library and get on the computer open you Amazon link and start ordering. You are not “supposed” to order through your own link, but why not make yourself a little money back? Amazon is a large company and I am sure that they will enjoy giving you your money. The weird thing about Amazon is that they have NET 60 payout. Which means 60 days after the end of the month you made your money in you get paid. Strange idea isn’t it? Well, Amazon is a large affiliate for many people, they just deal with the payment lag. So if you are looking for a good affiliate program with different products that you can really get behind and promote, check out Amazon Affiliates today.
Affiliate Marketing
If you have never heard of affiliate marketing before, you do not know what you are missing. Affiliate marketing is where you promote products for companies to other people. Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money online because the payout is much higher than doing article writing or something like that. You can earn anywhere from $0.25 to $100 in affiliate marketing. The most common way to promote your affiliate links is by putting them on a website. You then use search engine optimization to get people to come to your website and if they are interested enough they will click on they will click on the link and make you some money. If they are not interested it is one more set of eyeballs at your efforts, which is not always a bad thing. Another way to affiliate market is to put up your links on a PayPerClick service such as Google AdWords or Microsoft adCenter. These services promote your ad across their distrobution network and get many different eyeballs to look at them. Those people then click on your link, which can cost a small amount, but in the end will end up making you money. Sometimes clicks are fraudulent due to people trying to make money with their ads. The best thing you can do for your site is to get some PPC ads. PPC ads allow you to reach so many more people than you could do than by just regular web promotion. You can also promote your affiliate links via email, but most users end up thinking that your emails are just another spam message and cause you trouble. It is not worth the hassle to do email marketing as people just do not like getting information about new products sent to them via email. The best thing you can do is either promote your affiliate links on a website or promote them through a PayPerClick search service such as adCenter or AdWords.
