Adsense Sucks For Your Sales!

NMP · 09-14-2008, 03:24 AM

Yeh,

That is what I think. In the beginning adsense and/or
same type of ads was cool. Nowdays if I come to a site
selling/promoting anything and I see an adsense ads I
leave, I try find another similair page without ads.

No idea why. Just can't stand these stupid ads all over
the page. On free information pages I can stand it but
on commercial pages YUK. Anyone else?

D

BIG Mike · 09-14-2008, 03:27 AM

I'm surprised anyone would put adsense on an active sales page. I suppose if it were an old, outdated one that was no longer converting it might not be a bad idea, but driving your customers away from your sales page is a bad move.

Easy Cash · 09-14-2008, 04:06 AM

It doesn't work having ads on your sales page - the page needs to be focused on one thing only.

What you are selling.

Kay King · 09-14-2008, 08:26 AM

Of course adsens isn't good for sales pages - puts you in competition with yourself. You are telling visitors "stay and read my sales copy" and also "click here and leave my site".

If the purpose of your page is to sell a product - forget adsense on it. IMers are more aware of the ads than the general public is.

kay

mookinman · 09-14-2008, 08:28 AM

There really is no point in putting Adsense on a sales page. Anything that distracts the reader from your "Buy Now" button cannot be a good thing.

Apparently you're not allowed to put Adsense on "thankyou" pages (for example, when somebody signs up to your mailing list, they get sent to a thankyou page with the text "Why not take a look at these great offers" followed by some adsense ads... That's a shame because I think it's a great way to make a couple of dollars a day, and the clicks are from genuinly interested people. Just my thoughts!

edynas · 09-14-2008, 08:36 AM

What about adsense on merchants selling stuff thru clickbank or any other affiliatenetwork....

There is no bigger sign to me to not promote that. Apperently he/she is not convinced the product will sell and needs an extra way to make a profit plus imho it's ripping the affiliates of that send traffic to that page.

Tim_Carter · 09-14-2008, 11:22 AM

I guess you get the point by now.

Adsense ads (or any other advertising) does not belong on a sales page. It takes a targeted visitors attention away from the product.

Targeted visitors are valuable and giving them a way to go to another product is a dumb thing to do.

jasonl70 · 09-14-2008, 12:03 PM

I added adsense to my squeeze pages..

My opt-ins did not drop at all, and I get 10% ctr on my adsense. This effectively reduced my ppc expenses by over 20% (i get more per click then I paid), which increased my overal profitability quite a bit.

Seriously, the only people clicking on my adsense are people who were going to hit the back arrow.. those interested in opting in are still doing so.

And I got the basic idea from 'get adwords for free'!! Yeah - the product everyone hates

It doesn't talk about adsense, but the idea that maybe ads wouldn't reduce my opt-ins was triggered by that ebook..

This is not the same as a sales page of course, but it's an example of the need to test 'counter-intuitive' ideas for yourself..

09-14-2008, 03:24 AM	#1
NMP Screw It War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Umea, Umea, Sweden. Posts: 614 Blog Entries: 3 Thanks: 23 Thanked 20 Times in 18 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Adsense Sucks For Your Sales! Yeh, That is what I think. In the beginning adsense and/or same type of ads was cool. Nowdays if I come to a site selling/promoting anything and I see an adsense ads I leave, I try find another similair page without ads. No idea why. Just can't stand these stupid ads all over the page. On free information pages I can stand it but on commercial pages YUK. Anyone else? D

09-14-2008, 03:27 AM	#2
BIG Mike Drunken Greek War Room Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 9,630 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 1,847 Thanked 3,671 Times in 1,070 Posts	Re: Adsense Sucks For Your Sales! I'm surprised anyone would put adsense on an active sales page. I suppose if it were an old, outdated one that was no longer converting it might not be a bad idea, but driving your customers away from your sales page is a bad move.

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Easy Cash Gerry Walter War Room Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Brisbane, Australia. Posts: 1,174 Blog Entries: 121 Thanks: 104 Thanked 63 Times in 51 Posts Social Networking	Re: Adsense Sucks For Your Sales! It doesn't work having ads on your sales page - the page needs to be focused on one thing only. What you are selling.
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Kay King Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Gulf Coast, USA. Posts: 15,142 Thanks: 3,704 Thanked 4,138 Times in 2,256 Posts	Re: Adsense Sucks For Your Sales! Of course adsens isn't good for sales pages - puts you in competition with yourself. You are telling visitors "stay and read my sales copy" and also "click here and leave my site". If the purpose of your page is to sell a product - forget adsense on it. IMers are more aware of the ads than the general public is. kay

09-14-2008, 08:28 AM	#5
mookinman Affiliate Marketer Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom. Posts: 459 Thanks: 37 Thanked 47 Times in 18 Posts	Re: Adsense Sucks For Your Sales! There really is no point in putting Adsense on a sales page. Anything that distracts the reader from your "Buy Now" button cannot be a good thing. Apparently you're not allowed to put Adsense on "thankyou" pages (for example, when somebody signs up to your mailing list, they get sent to a thankyou page with the text "Why not take a look at these great offers" followed by some adsense ads... That's a shame because I think it's a great way to make a couple of dollars a day, and the clicks are from genuinly interested people. Just my thoughts!
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09-14-2008, 12:03 PM	#8
jasonl70 Software Developer War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Ohio , USA. Posts: 2,273 Thanks: 416 Thanked 408 Times in 250 Posts	Re: Adsense Sucks For Your Sales! I added adsense to my squeeze pages.. My opt-ins did not drop at all, and I get 10% ctr on my adsense. This effectively reduced my ppc expenses by over 20% (i get more per click then I paid), which increased my overal profitability quite a bit. Seriously, the only people clicking on my adsense are people who were going to hit the back arrow.. those interested in opting in are still doing so. And I got the basic idea from 'get adwords for free'!! Yeah - the product everyone hates It doesn't talk about adsense, but the idea that maybe ads wouldn't reduce my opt-ins was triggered by that ebook.. This is not the same as a sales page of course, but it's an example of the need to test 'counter-intuitive' ideas for yourself..
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