Adsense v Affiliate Links?

It all depends on which your site's visitors respond to better, but here is the thing if you're doing AdSense because your visitors don't respond to affiliate offers you will find it is often the case that you don't earn much with Ad sense because you don't have buyers traffic.

So if I need target specific people with specific content?

It is a personal choice, really.

I prefer affiliate marketing over AdSense solely because I more control over the process that way.

Plus, just one affiliate sale could make more money than entire month of AdSense earnings depending on the amount of traffic visiting your page.

Just some food for thought.

You may be being unkind to yourself, there, perhaps? From threads and conversations of yours I've seen, I'd say it was just labelled "SEO", perhaps with subfolders called "out-of-date" and "following bad guidance". :p

How is it you've decided how you want to promote the business without deciding what the business is, and how it's going to be monetized?! Well, maybe this isn't altogether unreasonable. It's an accusation that could be made of me, too, in a sense, in one way.

Very little money, though. And you get paid when people leave your site instead of when they stay there (and opt in). And your entire business is dependent on Google.

It's better to build lists and make affiliate sales. For me. Your mileage may vary.

But however it varies, don't imagine that affiliate sales are often made just by having affiliate links on a website and attracting traffic to them. This post from earlier today may help you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8299308

Appear devalued to whom?

It depends on your traffic demographics, doesn't it? Most of my visitors wouldn't touch a site with AdSense on it. To them, that would look like "just another marketing site" and I make a living by looking like the opposite (whatever "the opposite" means).

Sounds a pretty good idea to me. But it's a bit of a stretch to imagine that it's worth "writing great content" and promoting it to "relevant sites" and then monetizing by AdSense?! It might work if your name's Perez Hilton, but it wouldn't work for me.

Thanks,

I think it would devalue my site tbh but it gives me so many different options. If I write a blog post and made $5 from it instead of $30 from a sale its a start.

A few days ago I added a newsletter sign up function which I will push.

I want to forget Google completely and see any revenue from it as a bonus.