Adsense is not always the best
I have a website related to some anti aging hormone. This site is around 3 years old and makes around $600/month consistently with adsense from last one year. This site has top3 ranking on most search engines fir some very good keywords and gets around 1000 uniques a day. So, with those 30,000 uniques and $600 in adsense, I was happy with $20 eCPM. Who wouldn’t I be? It looks like good eCPM. So, I was very happy with this site. Till two days back.
So what happened two days back?
I received an email from one of my site competitors, that he is willing to buy my site (they saw the search engine rankings for it). I told them that the site is not for sale. Then, they gave me an offer which was very difficult to refuse. An offer of $25,000 for the site. I was shocked. Is my site that worth? How he is going to monetize the site making that much money? All these questions came to my mind.
By first seeing the offer price, I was just about to sell it. But then I thought, why not try and see what he is going to do with the site. I can do that myself and see if my earnings can be increased from this site. Thats it, thats where I started researching the related sites and found that most of my competitors are not running adsense but running some affiliate links which pays very good (upto $100 per sale).
I put those affiliate links EXACTLY 48 hours from this post (exactly two days back) and here is what stats I see for those 48 hours:
So in 48 hours, thats a total of $797.52. So if I keep earning that sort of money everyday, that would be around $11,962.80 per month from this site alone. Even if I take the figures little down to $250 per day (instead of current $396.26), I should be making at-least $7,500 per month from this site, which was only making me $600 per month through adsense http://www.jimkarter.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=127
Loading…till now.
So, adsense is not always the best way to monetize your website. If you can the right type of affiliate programs which pays good, you can surely earn much more.
So, did I sell my site for $25,000? You know the answer. At the end of month, I will update you people how the month went.
So, whats next?
As of now I have kept the adsense on the site. I will keep them for next 5 days more (total of seven days). Then I will remove them for next 7 days and will compare my affiliate earnings from these two weeks. That will decide whether I should remove adsense completely from the site or not. My feeling says, adsense will go. What do you say?
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Jim Karter on February 10th 2008 in Advertising Networks, Earning Money, Internet Marketing
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44 Responses to “Adsense is not always the best”
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ganha responded on 10 Feb 2008 at 8:33 am #
omg you have a lot of luck i make around 350$ with my blog per month but adsense does not work for me.
Best of luck for you
Deepak responded on 10 Feb 2008 at 10:06 am #
Right on!… But I guess you should reduce the figures by 20% because there may be charge backs (if those products have money back guarantee)
MillionEuroMan responded on 10 Feb 2008 at 10:32 am #
wow…that was a real change. keep up the good work!
jimkarter responded on 10 Feb 2008 at 10:52 am #
Deepak, that is why I have put the realistic figure of $250 per day instead of current at around $400 per day.
Though the products are consumables.
dailyfreetips responded on 10 Feb 2008 at 11:15 am #
Maybe you will get a final answer by yourself at the end of the month. Definitely you don’t sell right now. Good luck!
Adi Moga responded on 10 Feb 2008 at 11:30 am #
any good affiliate for phones? i would like to try it
Evan responded on 10 Feb 2008 at 2:51 pm #
That is great to hear.
One of the favorite things about your blog and how you operate is that you are not afraid to test and you are always looking to diversify your earnings.
Andrew responded on 10 Feb 2008 at 3:40 pm #
If that is all adsense is paying for this niche then you better get to doing some PPC as it looks like their will be keyword bargains
Jake Cohen responded on 10 Feb 2008 at 3:50 pm #
Hmmm…. Interesting stuff. I need to get myself a reader base before I put on ads. But with all these people writing about how much adsense stinks, I think I’ll stay away from it.
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Deepak responded on 10 Feb 2008 at 3:59 pm #
Jake, I guess AdSense does not stink. Only in the situations where your find the right affiliate products it will get profitable. Some niches have no affiliate products at all, in that case the only way to monetize your pages are AdSense. It makes sense
jimkarter responded on 10 Feb 2008 at 10:01 pm #
I agree. I think in the webmaster’s view, adsense is the best thing that can happen to internet. But as Deepak pointed out, if you get the right affiliate products, it will be more profitable.
gsv13 responded on 11 Feb 2008 at 1:00 am #
Adsense also suits when you have too many sites and can’t give proper attention to each of them…. put adsense on each one and happy thinking about cpm. To make your site a hit with affiliate ads you need to treat it like a baby ….. like we do with our blog …each day think about ….which affiliate to use … how long to use… any new high paying offer in market ….. think about how user will respond to the each page and overall profability.
We are saved from all these by using adsense as everything is done by google and affiliate marketer sitting on other side!
InvisibleLA responded on 11 Feb 2008 at 6:37 am #
$7500 is sweet and 10x the adsense earnings. Affiliates are the new adsense.
ramiz responded on 11 Feb 2008 at 7:10 am #
Can u tell me which affiliate your using i want one for promoting on adwords has lost 400$ with no sales on clickbank
Reviewpot responded on 11 Feb 2008 at 7:24 am #
Nice transformation. I think the site will produce better results without Adsense, as the focus of the visitor will have fewer options of spreading.
Womens Health Mag responded on 11 Feb 2008 at 11:13 am #
The problem is trying to find that affiliate product that will convert for your site. I cannot find the correct formula for most of my sites.
I do, however, have one site that makes 75% more than adsense with a specific affiliate product. Took some time to find the right one and that sucks. If only all my sites could make as much.
jimkarter responded on 11 Feb 2008 at 11:20 am #
Yes, it is really difficult to find the right affiliate product which will work. But when you find one, you are the happy person.:)
protibet responded on 11 Feb 2008 at 9:18 pm #
good to learn there are other alternatives to adsense in this world.
Lanna responded on 13 Feb 2008 at 7:48 am #
Did you mention from which company are those affiliate links, or I missed it?
Manoj Kumar responded on 13 Feb 2008 at 11:20 am #
He’s not gonna mention it Lanna
Jim Karter responded on 13 Feb 2008 at 11:56 am #
protibet, there are many adsense alternatives other than affiliate programs.
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Jim Karter responded on 13 Feb 2008 at 11:37 pm #
Lanna and Manoj, its not that I don’t disclose the affiliate products.
The products are from networks at Sytropin, Market Health and LE Cash.
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Armaan Bhati responded on 15 Feb 2008 at 12:04 pm #
Adsense is not working fine for me.
I get lot of visotors but no revenue.
Thanks for this great idea.
Popular Wealth responded on 19 Feb 2008 at 5:28 am #
AdToll seems headed to trump adsense.
I have little luck with affiliate products on my (still new) make money online site but I’m making a killing on my page one results non blog sites… I believe your figures!
Best of luck to ya!
Lanna responded on 20 Feb 2008 at 4:08 pm #
Thanks, that’s more like it. Since I’m here I want to learn something from you. I cannot earn like you do, but hey, I sure can try.
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Faheem Bhati responded on 26 Feb 2008 at 3:05 am #
Adsense is not generating enough revenue on my site. According to JimKarter i must try affiliate. It seems better than adsense.
Thanx a lot for sharing your great tips with us.
inruad responded on 28 Feb 2008 at 7:03 am #
waw..it’s seem very interesting…..i will go for that at my blog….
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Tanvir @bareFly.com responded on 03 Mar 2008 at 1:41 am #
Jim you should try to find the hidden niche like this one you figured. Adsense isn’t worth for such a site with 1000 unique visitors a month for the perfect niche. OMG the site is definitely worth the $25,000 offer! I have an adult blog which receives around 700 visitors a day but I don’t see any good monetization option because:
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2. not enough good affiliate programs to promote
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May be mine is a hidden niche but I guess it will take some time to find gold from it! Anyway I will be having an eye on how much did you make from the site. Don’t forget to update us.
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peter responded on 03 Apr 2008 at 1:05 am #
Hi Jim,
Great blog especially on case studies. I wonder if you can let us know if these affiliate program pay because I’m little skeptical on these because being scammed in the past.
Thanks and looking for your reply!
Gregor responded on 10 Apr 2008 at 2:52 am #
Hi Jim,
great blog, I read it every day.
Could you tell me what affiliate program turned out to be the best for hormones now that you had the programs on for few months already. I know you mentioned three, but which one is the best. I will sign up under you.
Thanks!
Jim Karter responded on 10 Apr 2008 at 9:20 am #
LECash is doing the best for me.
This absolutely fake. responded on 11 Apr 2008 at 9:52 pm #
All these stories r fake. Just to get more hits to his website Jim is publishing fake storie, so that people will get attracted and visit his sites.
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Hari krishna responded on 27 May 2008 at 2:06 am #
u please expalin a method for how to generate money other than addsense please
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