Is AdSense Making YOU Lazy?
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IS ADSENSE MAKING YOU LAZY?
Last week I got an AdSense smackdown from the Big G. They didn't close my account, but they disabled ad serving on one of my sites . Seems they've made some new rules for catching content they don't like, because I'm not the only person was hit.
Anyway, to be safe, I took AdSense completely off 4 of my niche sites, and replaced it with CPA offers.
The result?
August's income is looking to be 34% higher than it was in July!
I don't want to extrapolate a few days to an entire month, but it's looking very good.
So I'll ask you all - have you put AdSense on your sites because it's easy? If so, you could be leaving significant money on the table :confused:.
And I can now sleep easy, knowing that AdSense is now less than 50% of my online income. In fact, I might take it off more sites.
If you want to follow my action plan, then this is what I did:
1. Last year I signed up to a load of CPA affiliate schemes. They're all directly with the vendor rather than being ClickBank/CJ schemes.
2. I replaced a little bit of AdSense with CPA offers. This allowed me to determine which advertisers converted best. Unsurprisingly, the market leaders do best, even though poorer quality offerings pay more.
3. I've rolled my own version of AdSense - ads for green widgets show on pages about green widgets. I've got an ad server, and I include the ads on sites using iframes or HTTP calls. So much for Google's PhD's - my ad system shows much more appropriate ads than AdSense ever did.
4. I've made non-standard ads, such as text ads to go at the top of a wordpress post. These convert like crazy .
Another course of action you could take is to sell text links (e.g. $10 a month via a PayPal recurring payment). I've got a friend who does this, and it's a big earner for him. This works very well if you've got an authority site or forum in a good niche. A few links could easily make more than AdSense ever would. Just make sure you don't link to any bad neighborhoods.
So, I'd like to see less "how do I get back into AdSense" threads round here, and more Warriors making use of the CPA sub-forum !
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