Adsense: Theres Got to be a Better Way!

Let me start by saying that I’m not totally against adsense. People have sites for entertainment or recreation and have some adsense ads on there. They make enough to pay for the domain name and web hosting and maybe build up to make well more than that.

There are also people making a ton of money with adsense and have an empire of sites. There are some good things about adsense, you can get started with limited marketing experience. There’s no sales page and you don’t have to handle customer service.

The problems are this:

So many people got into it, that the high paying keywords got gobbled up. That means that there got to be a tremendous amount competition. It would be a lot harder to get traffic to the websites.

Another problem is that if you are going to focus on the less paying keywords to avoid competition. You need so dang much traffic. If you’re only getting a few cents a click, man that’s tough. Only a small percentage of the traffic will be clicking on the ads, in most cases.

Another problem is that people are starting to tune it out. I know I do. I never click on adsense ads. A lot of people are just on the Internet because they want to get entertained etc. A person knows that the businesses that advertise on those Google Ads, are trying to make money off of them.

What other alternatives are there?

Well, you could affiliate other products. You don’t have to have a product to sell or have a sales page or deal with customer service, but you can make a lot of money doing it.

It gives you some more possiblities. You can find great products or services that may offer a great commission. They might also offer you a recurring commission. Those are really nice because you only have to get one sale and get paid month after month from that.

You can also do more things to get people to the sales pages. You can write a review, you can put a link on a pop-up add, you can use a peel away ad etc. so you have more options.

If you find a hot product to affiliate, you can get a good conversion rate from their sales page. Some products offer a high commission rate and some product or services are expensive. You could get $50 or more from just one sale!