affilate program or adsense?

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affilate program or adsense?

kosar

4:57 pm on Nov 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

I am new to this market and just starting to dig into these options. can you offer me an opinion of which would be the best avenue to explore? thx

jchampliaud

9:25 pm on Nov 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

Both work for me.

Chef_Brian

11:54 pm on Nov 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

Agreed ;-)

both

Brian

nakulgoyal

3:23 pm on Nov 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

Both work for me as well.

pashenG

12:13 am on Nov 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hi.

Could you give examples?
And why these affilate programs not other?

THX

utica

3:25 am on Nov 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

I'm using commission junction to supply alternate ads in adsense. The cj ads run where adsense would otherwise show psa's.

europeforvisitors

3:45 am on Nov 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

AdSense is certainly worth trying, but affiliate programs can also be successful if:

1) You have a topic that lends itself to affiliate sales.

2) Good affiliate programs are available for that topic.

On my site, I do well with both AdSense and affiliate sales, because my travel-related topic attracts both ads and bookings. If I had a site devoted to hitchiking, on the other hand, I'd probably do poorly with affiliate sales because hitchhikers don't spend much money and there are no affiliate programs geared to that audience. I'd probably do better with AdSense just because a click payment in the hand is worth more than a commission payment in the bush. :-)

shasan

3:52 am on Nov 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

Same, I rotate adsense with affiliate ads using PHPadsnew. Affiliate links are easy to place within specific content, whereas adsense links are in their own box. I think doing both will cover all your bases.

pashenG

11:31 am on Nov 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

I thought about fastclick. I know that isn't pure affiliate program, but it seems to be ok for these guys who doesn't want display PSAs.
Or maybe I'm wrong and fastclick is not trustworthy?

killroy

11:56 am on Nov 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

I get around 30% from adSense 30% from CJ (many advertisers) and 30% from one spot on topic great merchant.

While I have no research to support this claim, I have a powerful gut feeling that this might be pretty common. And if it isn't for you, you haven'T found that great merchant yet, or haven't spend enough time weedign out thebad CJ links and finding the good.

Also, it gives ma a warm fuzzy feelign to think that if I can seel over 2/3rds of my income via affiliates, the leads I send via AdSense must be pretty profitable too.

One of thses days, when I have more security through variety, I'll replace all Adsense for a few days with content targeted, rotated, CJ links. At current CTR and conversion rates, I thould make the same if not more.

On the other hand, AdSense might simply make those visitors profitable that I could not otherwise serve, and therefore could not be replaced with affiliate links. I'll jsut have to test sometime.