Do you make more with Amazon or Adsense?

irony for me at least adsense daily still got some money....is not lot...just one dollar...or few cents...

I still building up....

whereas for amazon I never use banner , i review it with link.

so far no sales.


I worry soon my amazon account will close due to no sales for months.

I am making good with adsense, amazon is pretty low rate.

I think adsence is better.I'm using adsence and get more

I think that most of the people make more money with Amazon

It depends on the website. Some websites will make 5 times as much with Amazon. And for some - Adsense is more profitable. It's all about testing ..

I haven't hit the $10 threshold to get paid yet by Amazon. ha

People are making thousands of dollar every month from amazon and adsense.
Simple site is best for amazon from my experience. should have easy navigation, traffic can understand what the site all about within a minutes and easier to find the product which traffic are looking for.
Good luck for your success!

Depends on the niche and product.

I'll give you some real actual examples.

Sometimes it's better to be a buyer and sometimes it's better to be a seller. Make sense? On Adsense you are serving other people's ads (that they are making a profit on). If you pay attention you will notice who continuously advertises and pays to advertise on your sites. If they are paying, chances are it's profitable to them. See what they are selling and if you can sell it. Sometimes they are affiliates. So, why can't you be an affiliate, too? Other times it would make no sense. For example, maybe you run an informational blog on cars, and your main Adsense advertisers are car-dealers. Well, you probably can't open a car dealership. You could have an affiliate for an online car sales site (and you probably do/will and might combine that with Adsense).

Here are 2 times it made a lot more sense for me to be a "buyer" (or in this case really just "buy" ad space from myself). One of them involves Amazon, but mostly due to convenience and the collapse of formerly better options.

1. Cell phones. I had a long-time agency with IMHO the best telecom affiliate program that ever existed. I still get monthly residuals for sales I made 10 years ago, but things changed a lot around 2010. I had multiple cell phone sales sites, including a main one that sold phones every day. I had a lot of "near misses"- like when I was ranking heavily in search for Cingular, then they became AT&T. No matter, I just ranked for AT&T cell phones after that. Nothing huge, the site was a grinder but it made money from Affiliate and Adsense. At one point I was averaging around $50.40 per phone sold from my site. If I gave that all up to adsense, for someone else to buy ads on my site? I would have made a lot less. But I did have some adsense strategically placed and it did earn.

So, Amazon allows you to link directly to specific products. You have a page with a review of a Samsung ABCDEFG 1234 Smartphone on AT&T? You can link directly to that. In 2010 my main affiliate lost AT&T and lowered their phone commissions. The affiliate manager at Amazon pretty much recruited me to Amazon Wireless Associates and at the time they had AT&T and paid $50 a phone. They later changed their setup and lowered commissions, but it still pays more than Adsense. I would much rather be paid per sale on a sales/product oriented site than per click or other method, unless there is no affiliate fit or the clicks pay very high relative to commission.

Amazon also sells just about everything. I personally use my Amazon Prime account for almost all my non-food shopping. It's really convenient. This is useful because you can find just about any product relevant to a niche AND- even though their cookie is very short a lot of people will load up their carts. I mean, I might sell a phone and then the same customer adds a bunch of accessories, random stuff for their kids, presents, books, razors, whatever. You get paid on all that. I used to sell phones and computers and stuff in person (1990s) before I was selling online, for commissions. You got paid more if you sold accessories than the main items. You were pressured to "complete the sale" and get a high penetration rate. This is basically a modern, no-sales equivalent to that- affiliate sales with add-ons and no effort.

FWIW, I just looked up one affiliate sale I made- my best one, and it has paid me $5667.12 to date, and is currently paying me around $72/mo. That was in a high paying adsense niche. I could have earned $3-5 for 1 click, but I didn't. What if that customer had come to my site searching on Yahoo for "XXX price quotes" in 2009 and instead of entering their information into my affiliate widget, they had clicked on a highly relevant Adsense ad? I would have been paid, and would have made at least $5,660.00 less. Not everything is like that, of course.

2. I used to run some blogs with 2-3 friends. Mostly this was a hobby type thing, blogging about movies, music, etc. I was really busy with online marketing, so I really didn't want to do anything that couldn't pay for itself and my time. Which could be very small. For example, covering a domain renewal. So we would start blogs, throw up Adsense and basically be cool with messing around online and getting some adsense. We used to sit around and think of new blogs to start or things to write about for fun. One of my friends was really into the show "Big Brother."

So, we started a Big Brother blog. At one time 3-4 people were writing on there every day and we had people asking to write for free. Adsense? It was paying decent with a lot of traffic, but it was like 8 cents per click. If you aren't familiar, Big Brother sells live feeds to watch their house 24/7 and fanatics subscribe every year. They have an affiliate program. It's gone downhill, but they used to go through CJ and they paid around $15/sale and were very generous in providing creative and allowing you to make your own ads, etc. Many of the people advertising on our site through Adsense were affiliates selling feeds and the same people were always advertising. I had no clue what their conversion was, but if we were only getting 8 cents per click and they kept advertising, they were making money. We switched from Adsense to affiliate ads for the feeds and our revenue went way up. We kept adsense but reduced it and placed it differently to try to capture something without competing with the main affiliates. Our Adsense actually didn't decrease much, plus we added affiliates. Even if it took 150 times the traffic to make a sale compared to an Adsense click, it paid more. Plus, I decided to then actually BUY ads for some affiliate programs and make more that way, by basically copying the people who advertised on my Adsense.

Now, some things on Amazon don't pay much OR you have a niche that is not very relevant to a specific product or a buying audience (my telecom examples were people searching to buy), and you can compare/differentiate Amazon with different affiliate programs. Adsense, in my experience doesn't have much competition for what it is and how it works.

If you've some good product online then amazon should be preferred or if you have some quality content then adsense!

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