Clickbank, CPA, Amazon, Adsense, and the authority site

by Adie
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Let me share something here.
I am running several authority sites with Adsense, Amazon, CPA offers, and Clickbank and so far, here is my experience and suggestion.

Authority sites means I have hundreds to thousands of pages in each site promoting hundreds to thousands of products. I'll pick Amazon over the rest and will create more sites with different niches.

Here's why:

Adsense - Very strick with the content. Google can disable your account anytime due to a single unexplainable mistake. And you'll never recover. Since your site is created for Adsense, it's hard to put products after Google disables your account. The site will be wasted and your hundreds of articles and hundreds of hours spent on SEO will be wasted as well.I quit doing adsense a year ago.

CPA - Offers are changing from time to time and it's hard to monitor hundreds of offers on your website - whether they are still active or not. It's hard to imagine your page on top of Google with expired offer.

Clickbank - Products come and go similar to CPA. Some products just go offline without your knowledge and your specific review for that particular product will be wasted as well.

Amazon (my pick). Tangible products seldom phases out. If your page is promoting hundreds to thousands of books or power tools, you don't have to worry. Since I started my authority site promoting power tools, the more it climb on top of Google, the more money I am earning.

My suggestion - if you want to create a stable site for long-term earning, go with Amazon. You don't have to worry the commission % as the more products your site sells, the more money it makes....

Let me know what you think....
adie
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  • Profile picture of the author Ross Cohen
    Well... I mean, there's no right answer. I enjoy getting $100 commissions from HostGator... several dollar commissions from Amazon... not so much. To get $100 from an Amazon commission you'd need to sell something for about $25,000, and there aren't too many items at that price point. Plus, what item sells as frequently as web hosting anyways? Everyone and their mother is getting hosting nowadays.

    Just a rebuttal... playing devil's advocate.
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    • Profile picture of the author thebarksmeow
      Originally Posted by Ross Cohen View Post

      Well... I mean, there's no right answer. I enjoy getting $100 commissions from HostGator... several dollar commissions from Amazon... not so much. To get $100 from an Amazon commission you'd need to sell something for about $25,000, and there aren't too many items at that price point. Plus, what item sells as frequently as web hosting anyways? Everyone and their mother is getting hosting nowadays.

      Just a rebuttal... playing devil's advocate.
      You mean $2,500 not $25,000 lol.
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  • The truth of the matter is, all of the monetization methods have their problems; including Amazon. Remember that time certain states wanted Amazon to start paying taxes in the states where they had affiliates and Amazon's solution was to simply STOP having those affiliates? Those affiliates were left scrambling and trying to put together the pieces with replacements like shareasale and cj and the like. Not a fun place to be.
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  • Profile picture of the author contentwriting360
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    Hey Adie,

    Is there a specific WP theme for Amazon? I noticed that we have lots of clients ordering Amazon product reviews and it seems that building an Amazon-inspired site is a good idea.

    Also, are there WP plugins that are only meant for an Amazon-inspired website?
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