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Niche sites: Why Adsense and not Clickbank?

by AFD
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Okay, we have seen a lot of adsense guides with Niche sites (me too have my own SEO about this)...

I have 78 Adsense niche sites and 14 Clickbank niche sites... To tell you honestly, my CB niche sites are making 3 times higher than what my adsense niches sites are making.... I don't know if I the only one who prefer CB niche sites over adsense niches sites...

Let's compare.

Adsense niche site with 100 unique visitors daily can give you $1 to $8 per day.

CB niche site with 100 unique visitors daily can give you 1 to 2 sales. Depending on type of product, you can make at least $20...

What dio you think? There is no difference in promotion as both sites can be SEOed easy if you have unique content...

So why people prefer adsense niche sites over CB niche sites? Do you think people don't like selling?


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  • Profile picture of the author BillyBee
    I've wondered this myself and will be interested in hearing some responses. My guess is that Adsense is considered easier and more doable? I don't know what the thinking is, but your post makes a good case for Clickbank over Adsense.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brenden Clerget
    Part of the reason is because adsense niche sites are very easily outsourced and pumped into circulation fairly quickly. One huge niche adsense niche site, for example, a membership site with 10,000 active subscribers will pull in an insanely huge amount of adsense income, not only from members but new search traffic. It's really not that tough.

    ClickBank pages are limited to the life span of that product. Adsense are based to the lifespan of a niche. You can interchange your clickbank products sometimes when one runs cold but it's a pain kind of. Content sites just hold content, and as long as it's good to begin with, it'll always be good for anyone that searches for it.

    That's my two cents at least. I cleared $12k in one month selling my adsense niche sites I had built over about 6 months and it sky rocketed me into a new level of IM I never thought I'd see. I'm loyal I suppose
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  • Profile picture of the author AFD
    That's a sensible post Billy... I think people are just afraid of selling things. I purchased a very good WSO last 2 months about EZA, I applied it with CB and the result is overwhelming... Most people who browse EZA are buyers and I think that's the reason why my CB landing pages are doing better....

    Having your visitor click your adsense ad instead of visiting your CB affiliate page I think is throwing away extra money... especially if that visitor is looking for a specific product to buy... just my 2 cents.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brenden Clerget
    I get a lot more traffic from organic search keywords and SEO methods by getting 10-15k visitors a month and can easily outperform many clickbank pages, I'd say the majority of them, and the website took me 2 hours to build, and about 20 minutes a day for three weeks to promote, and now it's autopiloting a nice chunk of change.
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  • Profile picture of the author AFD
    I cleared $12k in one month selling my adsense niche sites I had built over about 6 months and it sky rocketed me into a new level of IM I never thought I'd see.
    Well flipping site is another story and no one can argue how profitable it is... My CB websites are generic and my posts are not specific.. This is to easily change product when the first one is not doing good anymore...

    I am occasionally selling my niche sites but not really focusing on it.. There's a lot of opportunities but of course our time and outsourcing capabilities sometimes won't allow us to do these things at the same time...

    I have changed product 5 times for my diet CB page and still selling like a hot cake...
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  • Profile picture of the author Brenden Clerget
    Well that's good then. I never had a lot of luck with ClickBank, it's almost a different beast and some are more content oriented than they are affiliate oriented. Yeah, I was able to outsource large scale with one big sale and then build a lot (over 200) content sites and many were $1-$5/day with some home runs mixed in. It's been a pretty good ride.

    I might try to get into Clickbank and expand out a bit with the content sites as well. Link to offers etc, now that I have traffic, but just starting with a product I had no luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author George Wright
    Hi,

    I've thought this way for a long time with the exception I say, "Why Adsense?" "Why ClickBank?" Why not my own product for which I get Instant Payment in my PayPal Account AND I get to keep ALL The Money.

    The major draw for me on this is not the money but the "Instant" money. No waiting a month for Google and No waiting two weeks for ClickBank.

    George Wright
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    • Profile picture of the author AFD
      Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

      Hi,

      I've thought this way for a long time with the exception I say, "Why Adsense?" "Why ClickBank?" Why not my own product for which I get Instant Payment in my PayPal Account AND I get to keep ALL The Money.

      The major draw for me on this is not the money but the "Instant" money. No waiting a month for Google and No waiting two weeks for ClickBank.

      George Wright
      For people like us who knows how to create our own products I think that is the best option...

      But if your product costs less than the commission you are getting from a specific CB product, I think is still a better option...

      Aside from uncontrolled refunds, selling CB product is less risky and less work than selling your own product...
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  • Profile picture of the author Brenden Clerget
    I've had problem tackling a lot of the keywords for products in the past, but I just started out on an SEO campaign for a keyword to sell my new WSO at full launch price and it should be profitable. I got some help from a couple guys around here and I think it will work, or I hope so at least. This is something on a scale I've never tackled, kind of excited.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brenden Clerget
    True story AFD because if one fails, you can just pick another and go. With your own product, you have a lot more pressure to, "get it right" so to say.
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