Changing AdSense Sites To Affiliates - $110/day to $260/day Overnight! Details Inside...
We've been creating a network of AdSense sites over the last five months and are just under 300 domains purchased with around 250 sites up and running. We've been able to make it successful through cheap labor and articles and plan to continue scaling it up throughout the year. We've learned quite a bit from the forum here and other sites and feel we've got a pretty firm grasp on a profitable process so far.
However, I've been reading and been really impressed with a blog over at FlipFilter and there's a great article on AdSense vs. Affiliates vs. Own Product with a very detailed comparison that struck me: Why your Adsense Sites could be leaving money on the table
To save you the time of reading that long post, I'll get to the meat of it. He takes a ton of data from sales on Flippa and comes up with some interesting information. While you can't necessarily trust the seller's figures from Flippa, using it as a comparison is quite fair (Assuming they all lie equally, I guess)
- He samples almost 2,600 different sites
- Considers Revenue Per Unique or RPU as the comparison
- He dismisses start-up sites, site with very little traffic, etc...those that would skew the numbers
Here are the numbers:
AdSense Only: .11 RPU
Affiliate Only: .26 RPU
Product/Service Only: 1.51 RPU
(Looking at gross sales)
He also shows mixes of those above and their numbers as well.
So...is it true that if I had AdSense sites making $110/day that could easily convert to Affiliate sites (with great matching product) I could swap my $110/day for $260/day gross overnight? And...if I had my own product...that would go to $1,510/day overnight?
For many of our sites, they wouldn't convert very well to a particular product and they simply don't have the traffic to warrant creating a product directly to sell on the site...but very interesting numbers, nonetheless.
Do you think this is possible? Not possible? Where are the holes here. (Please assume the research done above is true.)
However, I've been reading and been really impressed with a blog over at FlipFilter and there's a great article on AdSense vs. Affiliates vs. Own Product with a very detailed comparison that struck me: Why your Adsense Sites could be leaving money on the table
To save you the time of reading that long post, I'll get to the meat of it. He takes a ton of data from sales on Flippa and comes up with some interesting information. While you can't necessarily trust the seller's figures from Flippa, using it as a comparison is quite fair (Assuming they all lie equally, I guess)
- He samples almost 2,600 different sites
- Considers Revenue Per Unique or RPU as the comparison
- He dismisses start-up sites, site with very little traffic, etc...those that would skew the numbers
Here are the numbers:
AdSense Only: .11 RPU
Affiliate Only: .26 RPU
Product/Service Only: 1.51 RPU
(Looking at gross sales)
He also shows mixes of those above and their numbers as well.
So...is it true that if I had AdSense sites making $110/day that could easily convert to Affiliate sites (with great matching product) I could swap my $110/day for $260/day gross overnight? And...if I had my own product...that would go to $1,510/day overnight?
For many of our sites, they wouldn't convert very well to a particular product and they simply don't have the traffic to warrant creating a product directly to sell on the site...but very interesting numbers, nonetheless.
Do you think this is possible? Not possible? Where are the holes here. (Please assume the research done above is true.)
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