Affiliate Marketing vs. Google Adsense

Lately there has been a lot of discussion on how to make tons of money with Google Adsense. In fact, many people are making the claim that Adsense sites can earn a higher revenue then an affiliate-marketing site. So that brings us to an important question: Which is a better online business - Affiliate-Marketing sites or Google Adsense sites? Let's explore each one and then find out which online business is better option: Google Adsense How do you like the idea of earning m*ney without dealing with customers or answering emails. This is possible when you run a Google Adsense site. With Adsense sites, you can have a virtual passive-income that requires little maintaining. But is this the best option for an online business? Here are the positives of Google Adsense sites: � They are perfect for people who run information sites that have no related affiliate product � You can set it and leave it. With Google Adsense, you can create a content page, and there is little need to update the content. � Adsense sites are easy to scale. Since they require little upkeep, you can easily create multiple websites that each make a nice income. Here are the negatives of Google Adsense sites: � They are not a great long term solution. Instead of getting your visitors to subscribe to a mailing list, you are focusing on getting people to click on ads. Real online businesses concentrate on building assets that can use for long-term growth. � These sites are dependent on search engines. Most Google Adsense sites make the mistake of depending on search engines for the majority of their traffic. If the SE algorithms change then your income might drop significantly. Affiliate Marketing Being an affiliate marketer is great for those who want build a theme site. With this type of business, you can easily create web pages around a topic and get people to buy products through your products. If done correctly, you can easily build a loyal following that will help you make money for years to come. But can affiliate marketing make you more money then Google Adsense? Here are the positives of affiliate marketing: � A great advantage of affiliate-marketing is that you can build a long term business that will bring in a revenue stream for years. � With affiliate-marketers you need to focus on building an email list. This list is a major asset of your business. Every time you have an offer, you can go to your list and increase your profits.. � Unlike Google Adsense sites, which only concentrates on high paying keywords, an affiliate marketing site can be centered on a topic that you have an interest in. Here are the negatives of affiliate marketing: � You have to learn how to write persuasively and get people to purchase the product that you are recommending. For many people this is a difficult skill to learn. � Each affiliate marketing site requires a lot of effort. You must spend a lot of time writing product reviews, building your email list and creating web content. So which is better: Affiliate marketing or Google Adsense? The answer is that both are great solutions for an online business. Instead of choosing one over the other, you should create websites that can take advantage of both. Here is how you can do this: 1) Create a content site on a topic that you are interest in, while paying a good amount per Adsense click. 2) Integrate your Adsense into the menu bars and the top of your web content. 3) Add web pages for affiliate-products and your opt-in email list. But, make sure that you leave out the Adsense blocks on these pages. This way you are ensuring that you are building your long-term assets. 4) Create optimized web page articles that focus on a specific keyword phrase. Place your Google Adsense in these blocks. 5) Provide your email list with good content and product recommendations. Once in awhile, email your list and provide a link to some of your web articles. That way, you can earn a little bit of m*ney from your subscribers while giving them good content. By focusing on both affiliate products and Google Adsense, you will be building both short-term and long-term profits. About the author: Scott J. Patterson is a self-proclaimed Dunce, yet last month he earned $12,124 from one of his online businesses. To find out how YOU can do the same, download his fr*e ebook- The Secret-Guide to Home Businesses: http://www.duncemoney.com/affiliate-adsense.html

7 Steps Of Mega Adsense Earners

The Google AdSense program is like finding money in the street. Kids in High School are making thousands of dollars a month with Adsense... Housewives, Retiree's, Mom and Pop's who've never made a dime on the Internet have created full time incomes by simply placing AdSense Ads on their web site or blog. Then you have the "Super AdSense" earners. We have all heard of them... the Elite few who are on track to make half a million dollars a year or more promoting AdSense sites. Do not be mistaken though... these people are not building like your Mom and Pop's do. They have systems in place that create sites for them... people who build sites for them... they have outsourced and automated many of the tedious tasks such as posting to blogs and searching for keywords. While most people cannot emulate everything these Super AdSense earners do... many of them you can. Here are 7 Required Steps you can implement today to copy their success. 1) Starting today... treat your AdSense business like it is a REAL business and track what you do. Begin tracking what you are doing that works... as well as what you are doing that does not work. This will keep you from making the same mistakes over and over, and you can repeat the steps that have worked in the past. As simple as this step seems... most people do not know the reason(s) to their success or failure. 2) Utilize the latest tools and software available. The Super AdSense earners are not any smarter than your average person. I know many people think they are... but for the most part, they are regular non techie people. They are smarter in one respect though... they use the latest tools available to them to automate most of the tasks involved with researching and creating sites. They use the latest keyword, site creation and search engine optimization tools available. The tools they use are their secret weapons. 3) Quit chasing the Mega Dollar keywords. You cannot compete with the search engine experts who create sites for the $80 payout keywords. You may get lucky every now and then... but in the long run, you are better off building sites for the low to mid range payout keywords. The competition is less, and your chance of success is much higher over the long term. 4) Choose broad niches and break it down. Choose a broad subject as your main theme (lets use computers for an example). From there... break it down into as many sub niches as possible. Using Computers as the example... you could build sub niches/sites like laptop computers, computer hard drives, computer keyboards, etc, etc. You could literally build hundreds of sites around one major theme and stay totally focused. Once you have exhausted every possible sub niche of that major theme... choose another main theme and repeat the process. 5) KISS Keep your sites easy to navigate and forget the fancy graphics that distract your visitors attention. Unless you are just building AdSense sites for the fun of it and to impress your friends... the purpose of having the site is to have people click on one of the ads, right? Then keep the site layout simple... dump the scrolling banners, dancing chickens and colored scroll bars... they are distractions. 6) What is the purpose of your web site? Your web site cannot be everything to everybody. If you have a full fledged ecommerce site, with products for sale... links to other products, it is not a good site for AdSense. If the primary focus of the site is to sell products... let it do that. Do not distract or confuse your visitor with to many options or choices. The best AdSense sites are AdSense only content sites that sell nothing. They are sites that "Tell"... not "Sell." 7) Be consistent. This is not one of those deals where you build one site and you are done. Refer back to Step #4. You must continuously build in order to be successful. Think of it as planting a crop that you will harvest in a month or two, and the sites you build are seeds. Once the seeds have grown and matured... you will reap the harvest. The more seeds you plant... the larger the harvest. To sum it up... utilize the tools available to automate as much of the process of building sites - doing research and building keyword lists as you can. This alone will help keep you organized and on track. Be consistent in building... treat it like the business it is and you will reap the rewards of your harvest. About the Author Andrew Daum is the Publisher of the New Traffic Tools Newsletter.

Get Relevant Adsense Ads On Your Site

If you're an active Adsense publisher, I'm sure you have seen irrelevant Adsense ads on your site. Right? I've experienced them too. Not only these ads do not relate to your website content, they will not get clicked as well. Recently I've figured out several ways how to solve this problem. 1- Try adding META tags to your web page. The most important tags are TITLE, DESCRIPTION and KEYWORDS. 2- Rename your html file. Don't use a generic name. Instead, use your keyword(s) as your file name. For example, if the page is about making money with Adsense, simply name it make-money-with-adsense.htm. 3- Try refreshing your page again and again until you see relevant ads displayed. You can refresh the page by clicking on the refresh button, or pressing F5 key on your keyboard. 4- If any of the above tricks do not work, you can send an email to Google Adsense Support telling them about the problem. Don't hesitate. Their support team will reply to your email shortly. I've experienced this problem with several sites of mine, and it was solved 2-3 days after contacting Google Adsense team.

Ways To Make Money With Your Blog or Web Site

Listed below you will find ten different ways to make money online with your site. 1: Sign up for Google Adsense (find button in sidebar) and place Google ads on your site. Google will display the most appropriate ads according to your content and you will get paid for every click on an ad. People are making thousands a month with this. 2: Sell ad space on your site. You could sell banner or text ads. To make more money, sell top placement or best exposure ads at a premium. 3: Charge a fee to access part of your site. A recuring fee is best. People will pay for your site content if it's valuable to them. This could be a members forum, ebooks, software, reports etc. 4: Hire out pages on your site to other people. You could also give them away for free and make money by including your ads on the pages. 5: Sell your own products or services. They should be related to your audience. 6: Make money online selling other people's products and services through affiliate programs. You will get a unique link to enable you to track your sales. You can be paid per sale, per click or per sign-up. 7: Publish an e-zine from your web site. Have visitors subscribe to the e-zine right from the site. You could sell sell ads in the e-zine. The more subscribers you have the more you could charge. 8: Sign up with a site offering a datafeed of their product range. You can have a whole store implemented on your own site through this datafeed and all you need to do is drive traffic to it. You get paid a commission per sale. 9: Does your site have a good Page Rank in Google? You could auction off text links across your site. There are a number of text link broker sites about now to allow you to do this. 10: Create an RSS(Real Simple Syndication) feed with up to the minute content. If you have valuable information e.g. stock related news, business charge a subscription fee.