Yesterday I posted a useful post on how to start with affiliate marketing. Extending the series with another post on the same topic.
I here at Shoutmeloud use Adsense and affiliate links at regular basis. If you will see at my sidebar, along with direct advertisement, you will also see some affiliate banner.
Though I find it’s a good point to discus which advertisement program we should we use on your blog. First thing first, Adsense is backbone of blogger, because it will let your cash machine going, though the payout per day is less than a single affiliate sale.
Affiliate Vs Adsense
With one affiliate sale we will be making somewhere between 10-100$, depending on the product which you are pitching, in my case it will be more than what I will be making with adsense in a week.
One thing which I can do here, is take away my prominent adsense ad spots above my post, and replace it with any affiliate banner of my niche. Though it’s like taking a risk, because it might perform very well or it might not. Even if I end up making 5-7 sales a month, it will be much better then my adsense unit for that location, but if not I might end up making 0$.
If you are like me, who rely on adsense and affiliate sales both, I will suggest make a combination of both of it in right way. So that you don’t turn out to be an affiliate market blogger, and with useful content you will end up making some handsome amount of cash by the end of the month.
Make sure your most clickable area like above the post and sidebar 350 block is covered by adsense. IMO you can select these areas for affiliate placement.
- 125*125 (sidebar)
- 728*90 (header,Foooter)
- 468*60 (below post, below comment, above comment)
Always remember using maximum adsense unit, does not guarantee maximum revenue. In fact using 1-2 ad units , mix with link and search units yields better result.
Do let me know your opinion, Which one you will prefer more? Adsense ads , affiliate banners or both?
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Affiliate marketing is far more profitable. When building a blog, you want to gain followers that are buyers. Not just clickers!
That’s true Deneil, it depends on what kind of subscriber and readers you have. If there are readers but with very less purchasing power, you will have less luck with affiliate. Thanks for your insight.
Personally I feel both of them can be good for you. For an example I have a niche site about torrent sites and as you can imagine people looking for places to download movies often don’t want to buy anything. In that case I find Google AdSense working great. On my personal blog I write about Wordpress and in that case affiliate programs works great since I have built up trust.
If you have trust and the target audience are willing to spend money I recommend affiliate programs. If not I recommend Google AdSense. Often you are also able to use both of them.
Thanks for your insight Stefan and I have to agree with it. Affiliate marketing works depending on the kind of site. For example at Shoutmeloud we have both kind of readers, so I run adsense mostly on posts which target non-buyers else no adsense on other posts.
very nice post harsh and quite good suggestion but don’t you think that the affiliate adds may be categorized by the post content like if we are writing for a gadget or technology let the adsense run and if we wite some review about some hosting or feature then affiliate adds may run on that post what you say?
Thats very true Nitesh. Affiliate ads depend on the kind of posts you are running. For example you writing a review of some webhosting and at the same time, you running adsense, chances are high adsense will show some other webhosting ads, and guess what your reader click on ads and forget about your post. U lost a lead.. So I agree with your point.
That was really a good information.Using up all 3 adsense ad blocks does not guarantee maximum benefit.Getting direct ads is not easy for new bloggers with low traffic.What do you think about using multiple ad networks
Sourish Multiple ad network require little bit of set up at the starting but yes it perform great. If you remember my review on Chitika,
http://www.shoutmeloud.com/chitika-adsense-alternative-contextual-advertisement-program.html
I mentioned about how a combination of Chitika and adsense will be killer earning for anyone.
I’m a little bit ignorant of affiliate marketing. But I’m learning. I will sure be careful in choosing the proper affiliate. Thanks for this informative post.
Thanks for your comment Walter and welcome to Shoutmeloud
I use Adsense now and then, I enable it for a period and then disable it. I like the affiliate banners more as the payout is way more for me.
This was a good read and this can be used for newbies as well as the professional.
George Adsense works great when a blog has lots of traffic and obviously adsense placement matters a lot. In your blog its mostly Blogging and wordpress related article , so I guess affiliate will always works great for you.
I personally think that both of them are good, I used to place both of them in my blog. For Adsense, I just earned about $20-$30 per month from this blog, and I earned better than selling banner ads.
If you want to have a better layout for your blog, try not to use maximum adsense in your blog, it may annoy your readers. There is a wordpress plugin which you can enable Adsense ads to search engine traffic only, but I forgot the name, I try to get it and share it here.
Thanks,
Lee
Lee Thanks for your comment and useful thoughts, In my case I run mix of both adsense/ Direct advertisement banner and Affiliate banner. Where adsense make almost 160-180$ for me, direct advertisement is 150$ for 3 blocks.. Meanwhile its mostly affiliate which works the best for me….
meanwhile yes I know about that plugin, but I run a revenue sharing blog, thats why I could not rely on other plugin for now. Though I will love to know about that plugin
Harsh
well, it all depends on luck…if you are promoting a product of around $50(your commission), then just a single sale can fetch you amount equal to around 100 adsense clicks….but i prefer adsense as compared to affiliate banners
Thanks for this post. i was waiting for this!
Thanks, for your post. Some sites do well with Adsense whereas some do good with affiliate ads . It all depends on the content.
I think people who don’t know, how to promote affiliate products should rely on adsense. Adsense can make more money and easiest after all.
I’m doing good with Adsense till date.
Haven’t yet tried any Affiliate programs. Will study them for some time and start
Anyways, thanks harsha for sharing them .
Hmm. Will give try to affiliate marketing to
Google the Search Engine Gaint, came up with the notion, called AdSense. The very best program till date.
although adsense performs.. one will have a lot of options to do with affiliate marketing.. but all depends on the products they choose to refer…
It is a BIG mistake to combine Adsense with any type of advertisment!!!!
If you want to keep your Adsense CTR high, why lose readers attention to other atractions..
(I wouldn’t even consider inserting CPM netwroks if I go with Adsense, as Adsense is CPC netwrok).
If you want maximum consentration of your readers to your affiliate goods, than remove Adsense blocks and replace them with your affilate goods..
Combination is like shoting in all direction (and missing).
Sorry to say that this, but this is a mistake of so may newbies.
cheers