Blocking Ads for E-Book Sales

[peterinwa]

I see there is already a good thread on blocking ads (often being a waste of time). I have never taken the time to block ads even though many are for sites which compete with mine.

But many are also for e-books sold via clickbank, and I have started to sell the books via clickbank myself.

I am thinking that if someone has an interest in a book, I would not want them clicking on a Google ad for which I'd get pennies. I'd rather gamble that they will click on my homemade ad and buy the book for which I get dollars.

I plan on trying this... blocking the ads for the e-books I sell... but won't have any way to track whether or not it's a good idea. So I just thought I'd post and see if anyone has been through this same thought process.

Thanks, Peter

[bangkokbull]

tried clickbank but didn't generate any money and you can't even see how many people have visited the page

[peterinwa]

Yes, their stats are non-existent. But I'm making a lot of money from clickbank e-books which is why I'm wondering if my Google ads are keeping me from making even more.

[bangkokbull]

thanks for the making lots of money bit, I did it for a short time and assumed it was a bit of a con so will have another go...

[myrrh]

tried clickbank but didn't generate any money and you can't even see how many people have visited the page

You could use StatCounter to see how many visitors you page has.

[bangkokbull]

not about knowing how many visitors but checking that the Clickbank site is actually registering them, they only give details of revenues not visitors or click-thrus

[humblebeginnings]

Based upon my own experience I would not remove Adsense ads in favor of Clickbank affiliate links.
I am still trying to find out if Clickbank is costing me money or making me money...

[peterinwa]

Humblebeginnings, to be clear I'm not thinking about removing AdSense ads altogether... just blocking the ads for the e-books that are selling so well via clickbank.

About clickbank... my site is content oriented, and that's where I put all my time. I HATE this marketing stuff.

Anyway, a few years ago someone told me about AdSense and I dropped the ads on and started making money overnight. Now the same thing has happened with e-books via clickbank.

I'm not sounding very humble talking about all this money, but it's not my marketing skills at all. Just got lucky.

Or I suppose I did a good job with the site content.

Thanks for the input, Peter

P.S.

About trusting clickbank, I have no reason not to. I figure they will WANT to register all the sales and pay me for them so I will place more ads and we will both make more money.

[humblebeginnings]

"Humblebeginnings, to be clear I'm not thinking about removing AdSense ads altogether... just blocking the ads for the e-books that are selling so well via clickbank."

Yes, now I see. Sorry for not reading to well...

[onlineleben]

their stats are non-existent

With just a few lines of php you can do your own tracking.
Have that setup for many clickbank products I promote.
Tracking date/time, IP, product, referer, user-agent and writing all that into a simple textfile.