By far you have learned about affiliate marketing basics, Glossary of affiliate marketing & important elements of an affiliate program. If you are an old blogger who is already monetizing your blog with AdSense, you must be having this
question:
Should I continue using AdSense or remove it all together?
Should I continue using AdSense or remove it all together?
At vsrlinks.com I don’t use any AdSense ads & on few of my blogs such as Letstalkrelations.com I use AdSense + Affiliate products. In my personal opinion, AdSense is good only when you are running a multi-niche blog. If there is a relevant product to your niche blog, Affiliate marketing can do wonders for you.
Whenever we start with Affiliate marketing, the very first question that comes into our mind is Affiliate or AdSense? And this is a trap question, as you might be in the stage like me (professional blogging), where you can't play with your recurring income and you can't even afford to miss trying affiliate marketing, where real money is.
In this chapter, I'm going to share some of my experiences, and you can decide which is right for you: AdSense or Affiliate.
Now, talking about my model: I use Affiliate marketing banners + AdSense + Direct advertisements to monetize my blog. People have a most common misconception that Google is against affiliate marketing and which is not true. Google says, keep the affiliate link but on a quality blog. If you write sneaky and low-quality content and put ten affiliate links, that will affect your website search engine ranking.
Things to know: AdSense vs. Affiliate Marketing:
◉ It's easier to get into Affiliate network than AdSense
◉ Affiliate Marketing pays higher than AdSense
◉ Most of the affiliate companies offer PayPal as payment method, whereas AdSense doesn't.
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