Simon Paul Thurston

Adsense is making a tremendous impact on the affiliate marketing industry lately.  Because of this, weak affiliate merchants are at more of a disadvantage than ever and ad networks will likely be losing their customers.

Why use Adsense over Affiliate Marketing?

If you are in a losing rather than winning in the affiliate program you are currently part of,  it may be time to consider Adsense marketing and start earning some real cash.

Google is readily providing well written and highly relevant ads that are closely chosen to match the content on your pages. You do not have to look for them yourselves as the search engine will be the doing the searching for you.

You do not have to spend time choosing different kind of ads for different pages. And there’s no code to mess around with depending on affiliate program.

You will be able to concentrate on providing good and quality content, as the search engines will be doing the work to choose the best ads to put on your pages.

Configuring or Targetting Adsense Ads

You are still allowed to add Adsense ads even if you already have affiliate links on your site. It is prohibited, however, to imitate the look and feel of the Google ads for your affiliate links.

You can filter up to 200 URLs. That gives you a chance to block ads for the sites that do not meet your guidelines. You can also block competitors. Though it is unavoidable that Adsense may be competing for some space on web sites that all other revenues are sharing.

Owners of small sites are allowed to plug a bit of a code into their sites and instantly have relevant text ads that appeal to your visitors appear instantly into your pages. If you own many sites, you only need to apply once.  This is a huge advantage over having to apply to many affiliate programs.

The only way to know how much you can earn is to try it out.  If you ever want out of the program, all you have to do is remove the code from your site.

Payment rates can vary. The payment you will be receiving per click depends on how much advertisers are paying per click to advertise with the use of the AdWords. Advertisers can pay as little as 5 cents and as high as $10-12, sometimes even more than that. You are earning a share of that money generated.

If your results remain stagnant, it can help if you try and build simple and uncluttered pages so that the ads can catch the visitor’s eyes more. It sometimes pays to do something a little bit unique or different. It is also a refreshing sight for your visitor once they see something different for a change.

Publishers also have the option of choosing to have their ads displayed only on a certain site or sites. It is also allowed to have ads displayed on a large network of sites. The choice would be depending on what you think will work best for your advantage.

To get an idea if some Adsense ads you see on the search engines has your page, try to find web pages that have similar material to the content you are planning to create and look up their Adsense ads.

Avoid Adsense Pitfalls

It is important to note that you cannot choose certain topics. If you do this, search engines will not place Adsense ads on your site and you will be missing out a great opportunity in making hundreds and even thousands.

Topics to be avoided includes gambling, firearms, ammunition, tobacco or drugs. If you are being offered more cash in exchange of doing Adsense on these topics, you are signing your own termination papers.

With all the information that people are searching for on the internet, all you have to do is turn them into your profits. It all boils down to a win-win situation both for the content site owners and the webmasters or publishers.