Why does this forum get 10% of the posts vs. adsense

have all the affiliates jumped to adsense?

[howiejs]

I want to learn more about the affiliate game. I spend a good amount of time each day in the Adsense forum - and I wonder why there is 10X more action / posts there vs. this affiliate forum?

Is everyone just looking at adsense now?

Is there less interest in affiliate programs?

[Jesse_Smith]

Every one is addicted to the Google program, cause it's the best money maker per CPM, unless you sell your own unique product! Hince every one goes to the AdSense board. Everything made by Google is populer. Same reason the Google board has 329,997 posts while the Yahoo board has a measly 45,281 posts!

[jcoronella]

Adsense is a bit more mainstream - it is easy to implement and provide virtually any content site to begin making money. There is also more freedom there to talk about program specifics in the Adsense Forum. There is a significant number of "where's my check" and "am I allowed to do this", "Adsense Down?" etc. We have to remain general here unless it is for a well known program because we would otherwise be swarmed with affiliate managers dropping their program urls.

best money maker per CPM

Adsense is a great program, and rivals affiliate revenue, but I have never made more on adense than for a specifically targeted aff. program (swapped out 1 for 1). It is great for a blanket type program and I use it everywhere for cross-selling, but I would lose a LOT of money if I were to replace it for my top affiliate program links.

If you think about it, it should always be possible to make more with an affiliate program than with adsense, and more by selling your product than by an affiliate program. If it wasn't possible, the industry would break down and rust like all those 1999 Porsche Boxsters. You have to have increasing margins, or an industry fails to exist.

Have you ever seen 'aff' in an adsense ad? You think the affiliate posting that ad is paying LESS than he is getting for the click?! If you get $X, Google get's $X+Y, and the Affiliate receives $X+Y+Z from the merchant... now couldn't you make $X+Y+Z instead?

[sean]

AdSense is easy. Affiliate programs are not easy. It is as simple as that and it has nothing at all to do with the potential earnings.

[cornwall]

Without wishing to sound too downbeat..

...I would suggest that this forum gets comparatively few posts, because the subjects discussed are not of any real interest to affiliate marketers.

There is, of course, a reason for the lack of any real meat in the discussions, and that is that real money is involved. Nobody who discovers a "better" way of making money wishes to draw that to the attention of anyone else. Life is difficult enough as it is.

As far as the AdSense forum is concerned, quantity of posts does not necessarily mean a high quality :)

Have all the affiliates jumped to AdSense? ... I would be surprised. For me it is not one or the other, but both. Anyone building a business on AdSense alone is creating a very vulnerable position

[surfgatinho]

One reason might be affiliates are a little cagey about there schemes.

If (which of course I don't!) I had a reasonably succesful aff scheme in a not too saturated area I'd keep very quite about it.
Also if I had a good supplier I wouldn't want to tell everybody so the web would fill up with the same content and make my life harder distinguishing myself.

With Adsense there isn't really any secret.

Do people really make more money from Adsense than Aff schemes - Seems strange if the sites are relevant to your content then instead of making pence/cents per click through you could be making 10X that on commission.
My experience is Adsense is a fairly consistent but not too remarkable earner.

[eljefe3]

For clarification "scheme" in the UK is the same as "program" in the U.S.

[aravindgp]

Just on side note:
Usually in an affiliate programs: 80% of revenue is brought by 20% affiliates and 20% of revenue is brought by 80% of affiliates.

Does this trigger something,the big money is in Affiliates,provided if you know the game.:)

Regards,
Aravind