Drop Adsense – Go Affiliate Marketing
ByThis post reports result of my test to evaluate performance of affiliate products versus Adsense. I choose affiliate product in TV market and decided to publish Squidoo review-type lens for this product, since I don’t have my own blog related to TV.
Squidoo lens setup. Short, about 500 words, review of the affiliate product optimized for TV-related keywords.
My lens had one link to the product with call to action, and Squidoo served Adsense ads. I decided from the start NOT to promote or update the lens to keep test clean.
Lens traffic. It varied from few to 25 visitors a day, with a total of 2,000+ visitors over the test period (10 month).
Click-thru-rate (how many visitors actually clicked and followed affiliate link) was about 15%.
And here is revealing results.
Adsense earned me “staggering” 75 cents!
But, I made 5 affiliate sales at $45 each, making $225 (one Squidoo lens paid for my web hosting for a year!).
Affiliate product performed 2,000%+ better than Adsense.
Fellow bloggers and online business owners, here is a message for you - Drop Adsense and Get into affiliate marketing.
