Amazon Affiliate - Adsense or Not?

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I hope I am not posting a question that has been posted a thousand times already. If I am, please point me to an existing thread - I didn't find what I was looking for.

On our Amazon affiliate website (niche) I have been trying to decide if I should place adsense ads on it or not? I am getting between 100 - 200 visits per day (not much, I know. The site is about 2 months old now and it is all organic traffic). If I place adsense ads on the website, will it display conflicting ads to teh products I am trying to promote? In other words if I am trying to promote "xyz widgets" will Google place "xyz widgets, style B" ads on the website and I possible lose potential purchases to the Google ads? Am I worrying for nothing here as perhaps the Google ads will offset any possible loss of purchases on the website (items on the website have a retail cost of between $30 and $200 average so the Amazon commissions would correspond to those numbers). This is all hypothetical at this point I guess as we have only had a couple of sales from the website so far.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Anton
    Absolutely. In my experience they are near 50/50 split between adsense and amazon affiliate earnings. If someone wants a product they will click through and purchase. If they are on the fence they might click an ad (you wouldn't have gotten the affiliate commission anyway). Great complementary revenue strategies.
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    • Profile picture of the author clausont
      Originally Posted by Matthew Anton View Post

      Absolutely. In my experience they are near 50/50 split between adsense and amazon affiliate earnings. If someone wants a product they will click through and purchase. If they are on the fence they might click an ad (you wouldn't have gotten the affiliate commission anyway). Great complementary revenue strategies.
      Thanks Matthew - I really appreciate the input.
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        Why not go right to amazon, and see what they do? One would think, that
        amazon would say, hey, we got enough stuff here to sell, why would we run
        ads?

        And yet, they run the ads, and even have an ad network of their own.
        Go figure.

        But that's exactly what google tells you to do. How many of your visitors
        are 100% interested in what you are selling? Probably not much.
        As google says, give 'em a choice on where to go next! Bingo! So
        amazon does the same thing....if you don't like the products we are
        showing, how about some of these from outside websites?

        Paul
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