Adsense or Clickbank?

I like Frank's reply to your message but people do make money buy building a web page around a product. I'm not sure Clickbank is the best to do that with though. For those products that doing very well yes but it is probably better suited for Amazon products.

In any case, the product needs to be something people are already searching for.

Clickbank products "by a LANDSLIDE".

It's just as much effort to get people to click on adsense sites as it
is to drive targeted people looking to solve specific problems (weight,
acne, financial, etc) and who are willing to pay $30 - $100+ a pop
to SOLVE that problem.

In fact, it's "easier".

I could NEVER get adsense to work because you have to drive a ton
of traffic to a webpage and hope they click on ads. Not to mention,
if you screw up one time with google -- even if it WAS a mistunder-
standing -- all those MFA's go down the toilet.

In comparison, it will take 1000+ clicks to make what I can get in less
than 50-100 clicks to a salespage.

I say, do NOT do both -- instead, pick only ONE and focus on it. Even
if it IS adsense. Just. Pick. ONE.

It can be. I've never done it so I won't tell you "yes or no". However,
I do focus on niches where I can switch out products in case some-
thing happens to a product -- so I look for niches with a good amount
of vendors I could promote.

There ARE people who build entire websites around products and that's
fine, just realize you will have to build many different ones in case any-
thing were to happen to one product making it obsolete.

I choose to focus on ONE site where I am free to switch out and test
products quickly, but that's just a preference.

Indeed. If you (i) choose the right product and (ii) successfully drive the right sort of traffic to (iii) the right sort of site. It's how many people make a full-time living.

I'm biased. I make a living from Clickbank (and from my affiliate marketing skills, of course).

On some very fundamental level, I don't quite understand AdSense - how anyone other than Perez Hilton makes a living from it, I mean. I'd hate to give people a way to leave my sites, rather than staying there, that earns me pennies. But as I said, that's my bias.

I have a little single-product Clickbank site from which I earn well over $60 per sale. I just can't envisage that AdSense would be an asset to me on that site. I think about how many AdSense clicks I'd need (losing all that traffic in the process, of course) to replace just one sale of the Clickbank product.

I wouldn't use both.

I never made anything with AdSense on an autoblog. Isn't it also against their terms to create MFA sites, which autoblogs definitely would be.

Both are great ways to monetize sites. Often, you can promote a CB product on your adsense site and it will bring you more income. Sure you may lose some clicks but if you sell one CB product a month it should easily make up for the slightly lower CTR.

Typically adsense is harder to earn but is more consistent and can build in the long term.

On the other hand, Clickbank is more of a burst of sales kind of situation where sometimes sites won't make money but other times they make tons. It is more lucrative but also more exposed to systemic risks in the market such as offers getting closed down etc.

Just depends on your entrepreneurial style I guess.

Wow, you took time creating such formula... This could be a good help for every newbie like me on IM industry...

But taking adsense and CB are better!

Doing both is advisable!